Thanks to a collaboration between the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), applications are now being accepted for […]

Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]

What are the three biggest challenges Australia faces in the next five to ten years? What role will the social sciences play in resolving these challenges? The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia asked these questions in a discussion paper earlier this year. The backdrop to this review is cuts to social science disciplines around the country, with teaching taking priority over research.

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences earlier this month recognized five books and their authors that offer fresh perspective on […]

Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the British Columbia-based Michael Smith Health Research BC […]

Sociologist Alondra Nelson, who until last year was deputy (and at times acting) director of the White House Office of Science and […]

Even in the 21st century, social class is a part of being British. We talk of living in a post-class era but, […]

Sage (the parent of Social Science Space) and the Surviving Society podcast have launched a collaborative podcast series, Social Science for Social […]

The Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences has launched the Big Thinking Podcast, a show series that features leading researchers in the humanities and social sciences in conversation about the most important and interesting issues of our time.

To address research credibility issues, we must reform the role of metrics, rankings, and incentives in universities.

In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge examines the overlooked gender bias in CPR training equipment.  While attending mandatory […]

A 2024 report by the National Academies explores the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology and their potential effects on economic productivity, job stability, and income inequality. It also highlights key research opportunities and data needs to help workers and policymakers adapt to the evolving AI landscape.

‘What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Irish Border?’ is a new book from Katy Hayward that applies social science to the existing issues and what they portend.

Brexit seems likely to extend the hostility of the UK immigration system to scholars from European Union countries — unless a significant change of migration politics and prevalent public attitudes towards immigration politics took place in the UK. There are no indications that the latter will happen anytime soon.

A new report from the Royal Society about the effects on Brexit on science in the United Kingdom has our peripatetic Daniel Nehring mulling the changes that will occur in higher education and academic productivity.

In this article, co-authors Abhinava Tripathi, Charu Vadhava, and Ravi Raushan Jha reflect on the inspiration behind their research article, “Pricing efficiency of European carbon […]

In this article, authors Dennis Schoeneborn, Urša Golob, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Matthias Wenzel, and Amy O’Connor reflect on the inspiration behind their research article, “CSR Communication and […]

In this article, co-authors Desiree Meurs, Marise Born, Yolanda Grift, Maaike Lycklama à Nijeholt, and Joop Schippers offer a sneak peek into the inspiration […]

The origin of the phrase “publish or perish” has been intriguing since this question was first raised by Eugene Garfield in 1996. Vladimir Moskovkinl talks about the evolution of the meaning of this phrase and shows the earliest use known at this point.

Social psychologist Felice Levine, who has served as executive director of the American Educational Research Association for more than 22 years, will step down in 2025.

Karine Morin, whose experience in the policy world spans health and health research, the physical sciences and equity, diversity, and inclusion, has been named the new president and CEO of Canada’s Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

The National Academies’ Committee on National Statistics seeks nominations for members of an ad hoc consensus study panel — sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau — to review and evaluate the quality of the 2020 Census.

Could the 2020 iteration of the United States Census, the constitutionally mandated count of everyone present in the nation, be the last of its kind?

Census data can be pretty sensitive – it’s not just how many people live in a neighborhood, a town, a state or […]

Bravery takes many forms, and since 2006 the International Publishers Association has honored publishers who have upheld the standards and justice and […]

“We are, as a species, addicted to story,” says English professor Jonathan Gottschall in his book, The Storytelling Animal. “Even when the […]

This month’s installment of The Evidence kicks off Gloria Media’s annual equal pay campaign. Starting from November 8, the average French woman […]

You’ve likely heard the hype around artificial intelligence, or AI, but do you find ChatGPT genuinely useful in your professional life? A free course offered by Sage Campus could change all th

Kate Winslet’s biopic of Lee Miller, the pioneering woman war photographer, raises some interesting questions about the ethics of fieldwork and their […]

In a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter released September 9, the NSF issued a ‘request for information,’ or RFI, from those interested in research ethics.

The retraction of academic papers often functions as an indictment against a researcher’s reputation. Tim Kersjes argues that for retractions to function as an effective corrective to the scholarly record, they need shed this punitive reputation.

Women’s empowerment, population dynamics, and socioeconomic development have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. However, attempts to reconcile these […]

The next virtual meeting of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology will include the likely approval of a report, […]

This Committee on National Statistics seminar will outline the progress made by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in using non-survey administrative data […]

Thanks to a collaboration between the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), applications are now being accepted for […]

What is the best strategy for finding someone missing in the wilderness? It’s complicated, but the method known as ‘Lost Person Behavior’ seems to offers some hope.

The President’s Management Agenda Learning Agenda: Public Participation & Community Engagement Evidence Challenge is dedicated to forming a strategic, evidence-based plan that federal agencies and external researchers can use to solve big problems.

To address research credibility issues, we must reform the role of metrics, rankings, and incentives in universities.

It is a truism that academia is in crisis, in the UK as much as in many other countries around the world. […]

If schools provide the proper support and resources, they will help educators move from anxiety to empowerment when integrating AI into the classroom.

It is a truism that academia is in crisis, in the UK as much as in many other countries around the world. […]

Drawing on a bibliometric study, the authors explore how and why life sciences researchers cite the social sciences and how this relationship has changed in recent years.

The large language models, or LLMs, that underlie generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have an ethical challenge in how they parasitize freely available data.

Drawing on discussions with academics who have oriented their work around public engagement and social impact, Daniel Pearson suggests these academics present an opportunity to rethink the existing structures of reward and recognition in higher education.

Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the British Columbia-based Michael Smith Health Research BC […]

Just in time for this past summer’s reading list, in May 2024 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (technically, […]

To address research credibility issues, we must reform the role of metrics, rankings, and incentives in universities.

In late October, more than 80 percent of Botswana’s electorate went to the polls and voted out the incumbent government. The unexpected […]

In November, Sage and the Academy of Social Sciences hosted the 2024 Campaign for Social Science Annual Sage Lecture. This year’s talk, […]

Drawing on a bibliometric study, the authors explore how and why life sciences researchers cite the social sciences and how this relationship has changed in recent years.

David Canter bemoans how people are disappearing as ‘brains’ take over.

By actively collaborating with industry, developing interdisciplinary programs and investing in hands-on learning opportunities, business schools can equip graduates with the specific skills and experiences that employers are seeking.

It is a truism that academia is in crisis, in the UK as much as in many other countries around the world. […]

How is class defined these these days – asking specifically about Britain here but the question certainly resonates globally – and when […]

As an investigative journalist, Julia Ebner had the freedom to do something she freely admits that as an academic (the hat she […]

Qualitative data analysis is a way of creating insight and empathy. Strategies for data analysis and interpretation are tools for meaning-making and […]

Sometimes a book jumps off my shelf and comes to life. Visual research is easier said than done. It seems simple, in […]

The word censorship might bring to mind authoritarian regimes, book-banning, and restrictions on a free press, but Cory Clark, a behavioral scientist at […]

It is a truism that academia is in crisis, in the UK as much as in many other countries around the world. […]

Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the British Columbia-based Michael Smith Health Research BC […]

Republican legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives, arguing that “the American people’s trust in the National Institute of Health has been broken,” have released a blueprint for reforming the agency.

Who drives digital change – the people of the technology? Katharina Gilli explains how her co-authors worked to address that question.

The negative consequences of relying too heavily on metrics to assess research quality are well known, potentially fostering practices harmful to scientific research such as p-hacking, salami science, or selective reporting. To address this systemic problem, Florian Naudet, and collegues present six principles for assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure.

Candace Jones, Mark Lorenzen, Jonathan Sapsed , eds.: The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 576 pp. $170.00, […]

The proposed appointment of Robert F Kennedy Jr as secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has provoked howls […]

Sociologist Alondra Nelson, who until last year was deputy (and at times acting) director of the White House Office of Science and […]

Kate Winslet’s biopic of Lee Miller, the pioneering woman war photographer, raises some interesting questions about the ethics of fieldwork and their […]

The Canadian Federation of Library Associations recently proposed providing secondary publishing rights to academic authors in Canada.

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have teamed up present a 90-minute online session examining how to balance public access to federally funded research results with an equitable publishing environment.

Five organizations representing knowledge networks, research libraries, and publishing platforms joined the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences to review the present and the future of open access — in policy and in practice – in Canada

The proposed appointment of Robert F Kennedy Jr as secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has provoked howls […]

David Canter bemoans how people are disappearing as ‘brains’ take over.

The term ‘settler colonialism’ was coined by an Australian historian in the 1960s to describe the occupation of a territory with a […]

As the U.S. Congress debates the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, a new paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences urges lawmakers to focus on provisions aimed at increasing the numbers of black and Latinx teachers.

To help in decisions surrounding the effects and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences’ offers this collection of articles as a free resource.

Psychologist Susan Fiske was the founding editor of the journal Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. In trying to reach a lay audience with research findings that matter, she counsels stepping a bit outside your academic comfort zone.

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SAGE Publishing — the parent of Social Science Space – will hold its Third Annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp on August 9. Leaning more and register here

On May 13, the American Academy of Political and Social Science hosted an online seminar, co-sponsored by SAGE Publishing, that featured presentations […]

On Friday, April 23rd, join the Population Association of America and the Association of Population Centers for a virtual congressional briefing. The […]

After viewing the the televised version of the The Decameron, our Robert Dingwall asks what the farce set during the Black Death says about a more recent pandemic.

An unexpected element of post-pandemic reflections has been the revival of interest in the work of Ivan Illich, a significant public intellectual […]

The TV series Civilisation shows us many beautiful images and links them with a compelling narrative. But it is a narrative of its time and place.

In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge examines the overlooked gender bias in CPR training equipment.  While attending mandatory […]

There is a natural desire on the part of governments to ensure that their future citizens — i.e. their nation’s children — […]

During the final stages of editing the proofs for Artificial Intelligence and Work: Transforming Work, Organizations, and Society in an Age of Insecurity, […]

Kaye Husbands Fealing, an economist who has done pioneering work in the “science of broadening participation,” has been named the new leader of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Clinical psychologist Jane M. Simoni has been named to head the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

Annie Pilote, dean of the faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies at the Université Laval, was named chair of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at its 2023 virtual annual meeting last month. Members also elected Debra Thompson as a new director on the board.

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences earlier this month recognized five books and their authors that offer fresh perspective on […]

Sociologist Alondra Nelson, who until last year was deputy (and at times acting) director of the White House Office of Science and […]

This year’s Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and […]

A 2024 report by the National Academies explores the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology and their potential effects on economic productivity, job stability, and income inequality. It also highlights key research opportunities and data needs to help workers and policymakers adapt to the evolving AI landscape.

To address racial and ethnic inequalities in the U.S. criminal justice system, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine just released “Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice and Policy.”

The ECPR-IPSA World of Political Science Survey 2023 assesses political science scholar’s viewpoints on the global status of the discipline and the challenges it faces, specifically targeting the phenomena of cancel culture, self-censorship and threats to academic freedom of expression.

The social and behavioral sciences supply evidence-based research that enables us to make sense of the shifting online landscape pertaining to mental health. We’ll explore three freely accessible articles (listed below) that give us a fuller picture on how TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and online forums affect mental health. 

With research-based evidence increasingly being seen in policy, we should acknowledge that there are risks that the research or ‘evidence’ used isn’t suitable or can be accidentally misused for a variety of reasons. 

Over a 10-year period Carol Tenopir of DataONE and her team conducted a global survey of scientists, managers and government workers involved in broad environmental science activities about their willingness to share data and their opinion of the resources available to do so (Tenopir et al., 2011, 2015, 2018, 2020). Comparing the responses over that time shows a general increase in the willingness to share data (and thus engage in Open Science).

When scientists make important discoveries, both big and small, they typically publish their findings in scientific journals for others to read. This […]

Megan Stevenson’s work finds little success in applying reforms derived from certain types of social science research on criminal justice.

Yes, dad jokes can be fun. They play an important role in how we interact with our kids. But dad jokes may also help prepare them to handle embarrassment later in life.

When scientists make important discoveries, both big and small, they typically publish their findings in scientific journals for others to read. This […]

Kate Winslet’s biopic of Lee Miller, the pioneering woman war photographer, raises some interesting questions about the ethics of fieldwork and their […]

In a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter released September 9, the NSF issued a ‘request for information,’ or RFI, from those interested in research ethics.

A 2024 report by the National Academies explores the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology and their potential effects on economic productivity, job stability, and income inequality. It also highlights key research opportunities and data needs to help workers and policymakers adapt to the evolving AI landscape.

In November, Sage and the Academy of Social Sciences hosted the 2024 Campaign for Social Science Annual Sage Lecture. This year’s talk, […]

The interactional skill of large language models enables them to carry out qualitative research interviews at speed and scale. Demonstrating the ability of these new techniques in a range of qualitative enquiries, Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel, present a new open source platform to support this new form of qualitative research.

In 2011, anti-government protests and uprisings erupted in Northern Africa and the Middle East in what is often called the “Arab Spring.” […]

Dr. Liz Przybylski was thinking ahead when she wrote Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between. They unwittingly predicted that we would […]

Qualitative data analysis is a way of creating insight and empathy. Strategies for data analysis and interpretation are tools for meaning-making and […]

After viewing the the televised version of the The Decameron, our Robert Dingwall asks what the farce set during the Black Death says about a more recent pandemic.

An unexpected element of post-pandemic reflections has been the revival of interest in the work of Ivan Illich, a significant public intellectual […]

Yes, dad jokes can be fun. They play an important role in how we interact with our kids. But dad jokes may also help prepare them to handle embarrassment later in life.

There is a natural desire on the part of governments to ensure that their future citizens — i.e. their nation’s children — […]

Harvard psychology professor Joshua Greene studies the back-and-forth between emotion and reason in how human beings make moral decisions. In this Social […]

As an investigative journalist, Julia Ebner had the freedom to do something she freely admits that as an academic (the hat she […]

It is a truism that academia is in crisis, in the UK as much as in many other countries around the world. […]

Tom Burns, whose combination of play — and plays – with teaching in higher education added a light, collaborative and engaging model […]

If schools provide the proper support and resources, they will help educators move from anxiety to empowerment when integrating AI into the classroom.

In the first post from a series of bulletins on public data that social and behavioral scientists might be interested in, Gary Price links to an analysis from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series focuses on promoting your writing after publication. The free webinar is set for November 16 at 4 p.m. BT/11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT.

The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series honors International Open Access Week (October 24-30). The free webinar is […]

At a time when there are so many concerns being raised about always-on work cultures and our right to disconnect, email is the bane of many of our working lives.

The interactional skill of large language models enables them to carry out qualitative research interviews at speed and scale. Demonstrating the ability of these new techniques in a range of qualitative enquiries, Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel, present a new open source platform to support this new form of qualitative research.

The Accelerator For Innovation and Research Funding Experimentation (AFIRE) is a new tool dedicated to boosting and revitalizing the design, synthesis, and implementation of experiments through innovation and research funding.

A new database houses more 250 different useful artificial intelligence applications that can help change the way researchers conduct social science research.

In November, Sage and the Academy of Social Sciences hosted the 2024 Campaign for Social Science Annual Sage Lecture. This year’s talk, […]

According to the National Science Foundation, the percentage of American adults with a great deal of trust in the scientific community dropped […]

“It’s very hard,” explains Sir Lawrence Freedman, “to motivate people when they’re going backwards.”

This March, the Sage Politics team launches its first Politics Webinar Week. These webinars are free to access and will be delivered by contemporary politics experts —drawn from Sage’s team of authors and editors— who range from practitioners to instructors.

Research impact will be the focus of a new webinar series from Epigeum, which provides online courses for universities and colleges. The […]

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have teamed up present a 90-minute online session examining how to balance public access to federally funded research results with an equitable publishing environment.