A group of researchers examine the communication barriers impacting social science professionals’ credibility and how people make sense of their expertise.
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Anthropic developed an AI interviewer it claims can help social scientists conduct research at scale. But AI models lack the human qualities that make qualitative research unique.
Our romances tell us a lot about how we live our lives and vice versa. They can help us make informed choices about changing and breaking habits or developing new ones.
Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.
The Marsden Fund was set up to support pure research. Diverting half of it to fund applied research undermines New Zealand’s potential to generate ideas that underpin commercial success.
It’s one way that AI could have a major impact on society.
Focusing on despair is unhelpful and may even prevent climate action. Insights from climate social scientists can help navigate the doom and gloom.
Research suggests that most of us are pretty trustworthy.
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.
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.
From commerce to public policy, cuts to New Zealand’s university humanities departments will have repercussions well beyond the so-called ‘ivory towers’.
Three Indigenous studies scholars draw from colonial histories and explain why listening for alien life can have ethical ramifications.
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.
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.
Psychological and social perspectives on economy that were developed by 19th-century philosophers can help us re-imagine economics with a human face.
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.
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.
Social scientists in Nigeria communicate their research results more among themselves than they do to policymakers and the general public.
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.
Researchers found the letters X, Y, and Z make tweets more shareable. The nonsensical result shows how easily statistics can be misused.
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Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professor Emeritus, Education and History, York University, Canada
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Professor of Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University
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African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), Philosophy Department, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, McGill University
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Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Wageningen University
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Associate Professor in Management, Concordia University Research Chair in Resilience & Institutions, Concordia University
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Associate Professor, School of Arts and Media, UNSW
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Professor of Law, University of Oregon
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Ph.D. Student in Developmental Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Doctoral Student, University of Florida
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology, James Cook University