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.
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The International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) will build bridges between policy and research, accelerating the UK’s recovery from the crisis.
Experts in the humanities and social sciences add nuance to the debate about how to respond to COVID-19.
The active and uninhibited dissemination of knowledge is vital for the advancement of knowledge.
The reduced rate of funding to universities (of up to 17%), per place, for national priority courses sends perverse messages to universities.
Social psychiatry has fallen from favour. It’s time to revisit it.
Americans recycle only about one-third of the solid waste we generate. A behavioral scientist argues that with the right motivators, we could do more.
Interviews show Brexit divisions can cause tension but that people are thinking carefully about how to avoid breakdown.
According to the General Social Survey, the percentage of men and women who identify as gay or lesbian has held firm. But the share of women who say they’re bisexual has skyrocketed.
Breathless press releases, over-interpreted meta-analyses and other ‘crud factors’ mean that weak research results can get overhyped to the public. It’s time for a cultural change in the social sciences.
In the ‘World Climate’ simulation, people play delegates to UN climate negotiations and work to strike an agreement that meets global climate goals. Playing it has made thousands want to take action.
Academics from different disciplines come Head to Head in this series to tackle topical debates.
In a world of 24-hour news, night tubes and light pollution, does the traditional night time really still exist?
The way humanities disciplines are taught at many universities does not lend itself to ready engagement with a changed and changing world.
Cases of measles are on the rise as a cohort of unvaccinated children grows up.
Those who study, research and teach management are often viewed skeptically, even by their students, who might have more experience than they do in the business world. Here’s why that’s wrong.
You might be familiar with turbulence as you experience it on a plane, or as scholars describe combustible forces of social change. But understanding how it operates is far more complex.
Mobilising value from science and technology needs help from thinkers, designers, makers, policymakers and enablers – and this expertise often sits in the humanities, arts and social sciences domain.
Marx’s spectre still haunts everything from economics to politics to literature. Here’s where to start if you want to know more.
The illegal timber trade is a huge global business worth up to US$150 billion yearly. One way to curb it is by convincing consumers in wealthy countries that buying contraband wood products is wrong.
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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