Social science

Aaron Huertas offers advice on how to overcome perceptions of being cold but competent 

Experts in everything from accountancy to China and spirituality to skills strategies appointed fellows by the Academy of Social Sciences

Economists are finding new ways of learning about the past – and learning from the past

From Isis and the Middle East to Europe’s response to refugees, borders are at the heart of many crises around the world

Former Nuffield Foundation director Sharon Witherspoon says the disciplines face many challenges

Survey also finds that women do more work with the general public than male researchers

Author of new book The Cunning of Uncertainty fears pressure for scientific certainty is leading researchers to make promises they cannot deliver

Policymakers in US and UK told not to jeopardise the nations’ strength in the fields

Princeton academic recognised for work on poverty and consumption

Views of early career social scientists will be collected with a view to improve support for those starting out in academia

Peer review system ‘lacks capacity’ to deal with ‘flood’ of new papers, meaning some could be unjustly dismissed

Universities to scale back liberal arts and social science courses

Alun Evans highlights need to ‘be careful not to discriminate against the young’ in facing up to the challenges of diversity 

Happy Stripper scholar challenges view that all female objectification is necessarily negative

Course looking at ‘key security issue for East Asia’ part of major University of Central Lancashire investment in Korean studies

Dame Carol Ann Duffy among the 65 names announced

REF case studies used to create a map of knowledge connections between fields

Academic and former finance minister succeeded by Euclid Tsakalotos as Greece debt crisis continues, writes deputy news editor John Morgan

Study reveals 'international experience' also popular among  leaders around the world.

Renowned economist Thomas Piketty has been appointed Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics

Ha-Joon Chang urges fellow economists to learn lessons from science fiction

Thirty-three leading social scientists have been just elected as fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Funding for science and innovation should increase by at least 10 per cent in real terms over the next Parliament, according to the Campaign for Social Science

David Willetts, the former universities minister, ranks among “34 leading social scientists” awarded fellowship status by the Academy of Social Sciences

A French academic has won the Nobel Prize for economics for his work on market power and regulation

LSE scholars call for ‘shorter, better, faster, free’ studies and bigger share of research funding

David Willetts has announced funding to address a “serious shortage of graduates with sufficient numeracy skills”.

With interest in Ralph Miliband’s work high after the Mail’s attack, could Marxism regain academic ascendency? asks Martin McQuillan

Steve West warns that vice-chancellors’ duty to engage in debate is not straightforward

Gareth Williams laments the decline of higher education research since its heyday following an influential report

Undergraduates ‘reproduce social inequality’, paper argues

Victorian ‘penny dreadfuls’ offer priceless insights into social history

Ex-president of British Sociological Association argues for renewal of disciplines