Social science offers helpful techniques and insights for sole traders, not-for-profits, and small businesses. Social science can inform social media policymaking, as well as providing methods to improve the impact of messages and encourage audiences to take positive action. This post covers tips about how to post and test messages.
Governments and companies provide a range of free services to improve the lives of vulnerable clients, yet few people take these up. Below is an overview of why this happens and how to improve take-up of life-saving services.
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If you have a hybrid or remote team, or you run a lot of online meetings, you might be looking for new ways to engage your colleagues. Perhaps you’re seeking fun activities to break up long workshops. Here are suggestions of ice breaker games, polls and quizzes that go down a treat in small meetings and large workshops. These games are inspired by social science, by promoting cultural awareness, prompting safe discussion, and supporting diverse communication styles. Use these game templates for free.
An investigative journalist drew on anthropological training to infiltrate extremist groups. Dr Julia Ebner is now concerned that extremist tactics have become mainstream in international politics.
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Social science research from the UK has examined ‘tenancy sustainment’ (the support provided to at-risk tenants to keep their social housing and avoid homelessness). The study identifies various challenges in delivering help to tenants. The report provides guidance to help social housing landlords to improve their policies and practices.
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Social ventures, such as using technology to improve social problems, are hard to scale and measure. An impact accelerator program is using social science to track social impact.
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A new paper examines the role of applied anthropology in combating fear-driven policies.
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Social science was used in a state inquiry into social injustice. This includes a review of information services, analysis of policy and program outcomes, and identifying the social and economic impact of racial inequity.
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‘Race at Work Within Social Policy,’ has been published in the book, Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Breaking the Silence, edited by Dr Debbie Bargallie and Dr Nilmini Fernando. This book chapter demonstrates how inadequate racial literacy impacts social policy documentation, including policies attempting to implement anti-racism principles.
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The new book chapter, ‘Critical Race Studies and Intersectionality Responses to COVID-19,’ presents a case study of how the welfare state exercises multiple domains of power to maintain racial inequality, even during the public health crisis of COVID-19. Read the abstract and an excerpt below.
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