Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Who Is a Leader?
As SIOP 2013 draws near, we’re highlighting industrial-organizational psychology perspectives on management topics. Today, we look at “Five Perspectives on the Leadership– […]
social science sites of the week
In the news this week see the new classification of social class and our other related class resources. United Nations historic global […]
What is Industrial-Organizational Psychology?
The 28th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology takes place April 11-13, 2013 in Houston. As the society’s […]
The Pursuit of Happiness at Work
This National Public Health Week, we remind ourselves there is much that management academics and practitioners can do to refocus on the […]
New Social Media, New Social Science? Blurring the Boundaries: One Year On
Last year, SAGE, the National Centre for Social Research and the Oxford Internet Institute set up a network for social media researchers […]
Can Social Media Spread Good Health?
According to the latest Pew research, nearly three-quarters of U.S. Internet users are looking for health information online, and social media usage […]
Working Outside of Academia does Not Mean I Sold Out!
I have argued repeatedly that Social Scientists have a lot to offer sectors outside of the Ivory Tower and it is time we stopped associating this with negative words like failure and selling out.
Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth
In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast sociologist Ann Oakley discusses her research into a range of questions about women’s experience of childbirth.
