December 2021

Welcome to the Social & Behavioral Science Monthly Roundup, brought to you by Social Science Space. Each month we’ll bring you a selection of resources of interest across the social and behavioral science (SBS) community. Please feel free to share this with colleagues and professional networks. Have news you'd like considered for future newsletters from your part of the SBS world? Send suggestions to PR@sagepub.co.uk.

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Advice & How To's

• Levelling Up is a flagship policy of the current UK Government aimed at reducing inequality in health services, education and justice. This recorded webinar, hosted by the Campaign for Social Science in partnership with SAGE Publishing, assembled a group of social scientists, politicians and practitioners who explored the principles and practices that must be foremost if ‘levelling up’ is to be as effective as we would all like it to be.
• Hoping to use Wikipedia for your science communications? Here’s a step-by-step guide
• "The Place to Be" report, published by the Academy of Social Sciences in partnership with SAGE Publishing, brings together 24 case studies showcasing how social sciences are helping to improve places in the UK
• “All Welcome Guide to inclusive, accessible and sustainable events” from the British Academy of Management and Chartered Association of Business Schools
• Let’s keep an eye on who we cite in our academic work in the future. Looking at who we cited in the past is instructive (and sad). For one example, consider the case of female researchers.

Articles of Interest

• The Japan Data Catalog for the Humanities and Social Sciences goes into full operation enabling data cross-searching in the humanities and social sciences
• “New Model Library - A new publication from OCLC Research” from the UKSG
• "Opinion: Economics and social sciences have a problem of geographic diversity" from scroll.in
• “Psychologists suggest more humility is needed in the social, behavioral and life sciences” from phys.org
• “Testing social scientists with replication studies shows them capable of changing their beliefs” from phys.org
• "The Social Responsibilities of Scientists and Engineers" from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• "Think Big: How the social sciences and humanities are building a better Canada" from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Awards & Funding Opportunities

• Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence from the William T. Grant Foundation
• The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University launched a summer training Institute on Diversity to engage in field building around the cross-disciplinary social scientific investigation of why, how, and when difference makes a difference.
• Canada's top social sciences and humanities researchers honored for extraordinary achievements with the annual Impact Awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
• Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council, in turn, named its Impact Prize winners for 2021 
• UK’s Academy of Social Sciences Names 75 Fellows for Autumn 2021
• Social Scientists Should Take a Gander at Golden Goose Award

General News

• Advancing Research Impact in Society announces that the NSF Awards $750K for Multi-institutional Research Project to Develop Online Tools for Integrating Broader Impacts
• Universities Canada releases its social impact principles

Job Openings

• Postdoctoral position in computational social science (the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen)
• General Fellowships (Office of Evaluation Services)
• Executive Director - Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
• Board Director - Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
• Just Tech Fellowship (Social Science Research Council)
• UK Research and Innovation Healthy Ageing Impact Fellowship (University of Stirling)

Events

• Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (Jan. 6-9, Washington, DC)
• American Economic Association Annual Meeting (Jan. 7-9, Virtual)
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention (Feb. 16-19, San Francisco, CA)
• The Fair Society series: understanding inequality, meritocracy and mobility (a series of online events from The Policy Institute and the Fairness Foundation)

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