Test

The What, Why and How of Collective Intelligence
Innovation
January 25, 2019

The What, Why and How of Collective Intelligence

Read Now
President Signs Bill on Evidence-Based Policy
Public Policy
January 23, 2019

President Signs Bill on Evidence-Based Policy

Read Now
OBSSR Aims to Define Behavioral and Social Science Research
Announcements
January 23, 2019

OBSSR Aims to Define Behavioral and Social Science Research

Read Now
Social Science Space 2018 Round-Up
News
January 18, 2019

Social Science Space 2018 Round-Up

Read Now
VR: The Future of Experimental Social Research?

VR: The Future of Experimental Social Research?

Virtual Reality technology is opening previously locked doors to researchers in the social sciences. But how viable is it really as a research tool? We take a look back over the history of experimental research in human perception and response to consider the future of VR in experimental design.

Read Now
Rethinking Research Impact in International Development

Rethinking Research Impact in International Development

In addition to the established impact agenda, those doing research for development now also have to contend with the Overseas Development Assistance research agenda. Valeria Izzi observes that while there are clear similarities between the two, so far remarkably little reflection has gone into how they fit together.

Read Now
Here Is the Science Behind Scheduling Social Media

Here Is the Science Behind Scheduling Social Media

Bringing science to science communications: Social media post scheduling long has been an art, not a science. A new study reveals the impact of time of day, targeted content advertising, and content type on link clicks and how these variables interact.

Read Now
How Does Federally Funded Science Fare in Shutdown?

How Does Federally Funded Science Fare in Shutdown?

During this U.S government partial shutdown, agencies including the NSF, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Parks Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and NOAA have had to stop most work. Surely that can’t be beneficial …

Read Now
Are Gender Studies Under Assault Globally?

Are Gender Studies Under Assault Globally?

The war on gender studies is a pillar in the authoritarian critique of liberalism. But for many scholars, argues Jennifer Evans, it is a sign of the times for liberal democracies as well.

Read Now
The Civic Responsibility of Ethnographers

The Civic Responsibility of Ethnographers

What duty do social scientists have to report illegal activity that they witness as part of their fieldwork? If you answered quickly, you may not have thought about the issue all that deeply.

Read Now
Washington and Social Science: Shutdown and OSTP Appointment

Washington and Social Science: Shutdown and OSTP Appointment

The House and Senate failed to enact appropriations legislation to fund several federal departments and agencies, and, as a result, the federal government experienced a partial government shutdown effective December 22. But there has been some action – the Senate confirmed the nominations of Kelvin Droegemeier as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Steven Dillingham as director of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Read Now
Impact in Action: Denise Baden

Impact in Action: Denise Baden

Today Social Science Space completes a series drawn from five winners of Britain’s Economic and Social Science Research Council’s 2018 Impact Prize to learn how they built meaningfulness into their own research and how they measure impact more broadly. We end with Denise Baden of the University of Southampton, winner of the Outstanding Impact in Business and Enterprise prize.

Read Now

Subscribe to our mailing list

Get the latest news from the social and behavioral science community delivered straight to your inbox.