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Stellenausschreibung der Universität Bremen. Deadline: 2. Januar 2024

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal for Crime, Justice, and Social Democracy. Deadline: April 1, 2024

Stellenausschreibung des Leibniz-Instituts für Sozialwissenschaften in Köln. Deadline: 31. Mai 2024

Stellenausschreibung des GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften in Köln. Deadline: 24. April 2024

In 2019 the journal Management Science introduced a policy requiring authors to make their study materials available. Taking this as an opportunity to mobilise a journal community to assess the policy's impact, Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok and Ali I. Ozkes analyse findings from over 500 reproducibility studies to assess the state … Continued

Research integrity and trust in science have made global news this year. Reflecting on the scientific norm of organised scepticism, Panagiotis Kavouras outlines how building trust in science requires commitments to social and technical means of ensuring transparency and reproducibility across scientific processes. "Οὐδέν κρυπτόν ὑπό τόν ἥλιον"; this famous ancient Greek saying translates into English as … Continued

Call for Applications of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen. Deadline: February 28, 2024

Call for Applications of the University Alliance Ruhr. Deadline: August 27, 2023

Contributor(s): Professor Laura Bear, Nikita Simpson, Professor Joan Roses, Dr Adam Oliver, Dr Clare Wenham, Professor Patrick Wallis | In this month's episode of the LSE IQ podcast we ask, 'What's the point of social science in a pandemic?'.

On the 23rd March 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the country's first national lockdown. In the months since, there has been a seismic shift in all our lives. As we embark on 2021 and, hopefully, the latter stages of the pandemic, now is an apt moment to reflect on how we've got to where we are. While the scientific community has taken centre stage in the fight to overcome the virus, how have social scientists helped us navigate – and evaluate –the UK's response?

In this episode we talk to anthropologists Professor Laura Bear and Nikita Simpson, Economic historians Professor Patrick Wallis and Professor Joan Roses, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy Dr Clare Wenham and behavioural economist Dr Adam Oliver.

Research

'A good death' during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: a report on key findings and recommendations, by the COVID and Care Research Group
A Right to Care: The Social Foundations of Recovery from COVID-19, by the COVID and Care Research Group
The Redistributive Effects of Pandemics: Evidence of the Spanish Flu. By Sergi Basco, Jordi Domenech, and Johanne Rohses
Separating behavioural science from the herd by Adam Oliver
Reciprocity and the art of behavioural public policy by Adam Oliver
What is the future of UK leadership in global health security post Covid-19? By Clare Wenham
A Dreadful Heritage: Interpreting Epidemic Disease at Eyam, 1666-2000, by Patrick Wallis
Eyam revisited: lessons from a plague village, by Patrick Wallis

Contributors

Professor Laura Bear
Nikita Simpson
Professor Joan Roses
Dr Adam Oliver
Dr Clare Wenham
Professor Patrick Wallis

In quantitative social science papers, the discussion section serves as a place to analyse and put findings into a wider context. Philipp Schoenegger and Raimund Pils argue that rather than adding value, these discussions can leave findings open to the cognitive biases of researchers and that much could be gained from separating them out of … Continued

Call for Papers for a Workshop in Graz, Austria, on November 16–17, 2023. Deadline: August 31, 2023

Call for Applications of Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences. Deadline: September 15, 2023

In Understanding Humans: How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems, David Edmonds curates a selection of interviews with social science researchers covering the breadth of human life and society, from morality, bias and identity to kinship, inequality and justice. Accessible and engaging, the research discussed in the book illuminates the crucial role of social sciences in addressing contemporary … Continued

AI and algorithmic decision-making tools already influence many aspects of our lives and are likely to become increasingly embedded within businesses and governments. Drawing on recent research and examples from across the social sciences, Frederic Gerdon and Frauke Kreuter outline where and how social science is vital to the ethical use of algorithmic decision-making systems. … Continued