June 3, 2024
Focusing on despair is unhelpful and may even prevent climate action. Insights from climate social scientists can help navigate the doom and gloom.
March 27, 2024
March 10, 2024
Fayola Helen Jacobs, University of Minnesota; Candis Callison, University of British Columbia, and Elizabeth Marino, Oregon State University
Climate change is often seen as solely a technical problem. This is a misguided belief. Understanding how to build a better world begins, and ends, with understanding the societies which inhabit it.
March 7, 2024
Kaylee Byers, Simon Fraser University; Lara Hollmann, Simon Fraser University; Salome A. Bukachi, University of Nairobi, and Sarah Robinson, Simon Fraser University
Pandemics often have animal origins, so prevention is often dominated by health and veterinary sciences. However, social sciences’ role in understanding human behaviour is also crucial to prevention.
July 25, 2023
Richard Shaw, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
From commerce to public policy, cuts to New Zealand’s university humanities departments will have repercussions well beyond the so-called ‘ivory towers’.
July 19, 2023
David Delgado Shorter, University of California, Los Angeles; Kim TallBear, University of Alberta, and William Lempert, Bowdoin College
Three Indigenous studies scholars draw from colonial histories and explain why listening for alien life can have ethical ramifications.
July 3, 2023
Large language models are becoming increasingly capable of imitating human-like responses, creating opportunities to test social science theories on a larger scale and with much greater speed.
February 8, 2023
Jon-Patrick Allem, University of Southern California
Twitter has long allowed anyone to access its data about who tweeted what and when. This has been a boon to research, from public health to criminology. The new fees put that research at risk.
January 4, 2023
Psychological and social perspectives on economy that were developed by 19th-century philosophers can help us re-imagine economics with a human face.
October 6, 2022
Internships and work-integrated learning for social sciences and humanities students can be part of how post-secondary institutions increase their capacities to contribute to social innovation.
May 22, 2022
The Coalition government showed a disdain for the arts, humanities and social sciences. The plight of these disciplines requires action from the incoming Labor government on three fronts.
March 22, 2022
Adedayo Olofinyehun, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM) and Abiodun Egbetokun, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM)
Social scientists in Nigeria communicate their research results more among themselves than they do to policymakers and the general public.
September 1, 2021
It is the work of social scientists to understand how societies operate and, based on that knowledge, how populations can apply evidence-based solutions to the challenges of the 21st century.
July 12, 2021
Jason Burton, Birkbeck, University of London; Nicole Cruz, UNSW Sydney, and Ulrike Hahn, Birkbeck, University of London
Researchers found the letters X, Y, and Z make tweets more shareable. The nonsensical result shows how easily statistics can be misused.
June 24, 2021
Mim Fox, University of Wollongong
Tight funding and COVID-related limits on face-to-face contact have forced academics to find other ways to expose students to the real-life work they are preparing them for.
December 2, 2020
The International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) will build bridges between policy and research, accelerating the UK’s recovery from the crisis.
August 9, 2020
Experts in the humanities and social sciences add nuance to the debate about how to respond to COVID-19.
July 1, 2020
Jimi Adesina, University of South Africa
The active and uninhibited dissemination of knowledge is vital for the advancement of knowledge.
June 23, 2020
Ian Marshman, The University of Melbourne and Frank Larkins, The University of Melbourne
The reduced rate of funding to universities (of up to 17%), per place, for national priority courses sends perverse messages to universities.
June 3, 2020
