This report emphasizes the vitally important yet underdeveloped role of the social sciences in the UK’s current research, development and innovation system. Drawing on data which highlights the ways in which social scientists contribute to a diverse ecosystem of talent and impact, it sets out some distinctive flavours of the UK’s social sciences, and how they are transforming UK research into a recipe that is genuinely world-leading and future-focused.
Read MoreAs part of our commitment to publishing impactful research that helps to influence and inform policy, practice, and the public, Sage has committed to the five principles for publishers outlined in the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
Read MoreTorsten Bell, chief executive officer of the Resolution Foundation, delivered the 2022 Campaign for Social Science Annual Sage Lecture, on November 22. Bell’s talk, “The cost of living crisis: the short and the long view,” focused on the immediate cost-of-living crisis in the United Kingdom, and the background for the country experiencing it: a living standards stagnation stretching back well over a decade.
Read MoreSocial Science for Social Justice is a new book series from Sage that challenges traditional academic frameworks that have been exclusionary to people of colour.
Read MoreMichael Todd, editor of Social Science Space, a SAGE website, recently interviewed Chair of he San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, or DORA, Stephen Curry, about the work organization 10 years after its launch.
Read MoreThree award committees are now accepting nominations to honor those who work in the social and behavioral sciences. Read for more information and how to submit.
Read MoreWhat role can – and should – members of the academic community play as censorship increasingly becomes institutionalized and bans and restrictions are on the ri
Read MoreThe inaugural SAGE Social Justice Book Award has been awarded to Bennie Kara, author of A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools. Authors Anamik Saha and Prospera Tedam have been named as runners up.
Read MoreBlack History Month — February in the U.S. — provides an opportunity to both celebrate the Black community’s past contributions and consider the issues and obstacles to equity of today and tomorrow. Research and scholarship is a vital component of this work and is instrumental to creating policies, practices, and procedures that improve lives.
Read MoreThis collection of resources rounds up blog posts, research and resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes our Perspectives Blog, the Social Science Bites podcast, and Social Science Space, our online social network.
Read MoreHutton’s talk, “It’s institutions stupid: The moralisation of capitalism,” is based on the idea that there is widespread agreement that contemporary capitalism needs a reset. Capitalism is not delivering balanced sustainable growth, the source of its legitimacy, while rewards at the top and bottom are wildly out of kilter; dynastic fortunes are being created ossifying our society while monopoly power, extracting ever more economic rent, is growing more prevalent and drains away economic dynamism. This lecture brought together theory, evidence and practice to point the way to a new capitalism.
Read MoreThe 2021 Campaign for Social Science Annual SAGE Lecture will take place on 7th December at 16:30pm (GMT). Will Hutton, the new President of the Academy of Social Sciences will give this years lecture, bringing together theory, evidence & practice to point the way to the moralisation of capitalism. This year’s response will be given by Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. There is still time to register. Click the button below and sign up via Eventbrite. This years event will again beheld online
Read MoreBelieving that the social and behavioral sciences can make sense of the greatest challenges we face today, SAGE strives to publish cutting-edge research, support academics and researchers with big ideas, and provide freely accessible resources for the public. Recently, SAGE garnered accolades for three of these resources at the thirty-third annual APEX awards, winning a Grand Award for Together Apart: The Psychology of COVID-19, an Award of Excellence for the How to Get Published Webinar, and an Award of Excellence for the Structural Racism and Police Violence microsite.
Read MoreEarth Day is observed on April 22nd every year to ‘empower individuals with the information, the tools, the messaging and the communities needs to make an impact and drive change’. Founded by US Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day was first organized in 1970 to promote ecology and raise awareness of the growing problems of air, water, and soil pollution.
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