Social Sciences (General)
Research Topic
Language: English
This is a research topic created to provide authors with a place to attach new problem publications.
Research topics above this in the hierarchy
Research problems linked to this topic
- What are the key factors regarding public trust on autonomous systems?
- Where ODA intervention outcomes cannot be monetised, can they be quantified?
- Statistics representing society: How well or poorly do statistics represent society, and what are the impacts of this on how they are used and valued?
- How do England’s general, technical and academic education systems compare to systems in other developed economies in terms of status, structure, operation and performance? How can the performance of England’s systems be monitored relative to systems in these other countries?
- What research and social experimentation can quantify harms and impacts of harmful online practices with a view to develop best practice principles and regulation?
- How can the UK academic sector and policy makers improve connections between those who understand and use analysis and land use decision makers who would benefit from these insights?
- How do online bystanders respond to viewing perceived online mis/disinformation (e.g. report, share, ignore), and how could their behaviours be influenced?
- What human systems are resilient to impacts from AI and which are less so?
- Biopolitical governmentality through humanitarian communication of the aesthetic
- How do we design public-serving autonomous systems to be fair and inclusive?
- What behavioural and attitudinal considerations can be mapped in this area and how do we encourage good behaviours across organisations?
- How do we improve representation and diversity of the digital workforce? How do we better understand the challenges and opportunities for inclusion across different social groups, taking into account: ethnicity, gender, age, disability status, regional difference? How do we make policies that support equitable progression and reward across the sector?
- Changing world: How have evolutions in our statistical system (such as the greater focus on administrative sources for statistics) influenced how statistics are produced, used, and valued? How may advances in wider society (such as the increasing sophistication of large language models) influence how statistics are produced, used, and valued?
- Interactions: How does the way that statistics are produced influence the value that users get from them, and how can this be addressed to maximise value? To what degree to statistics need to be directly used for them to provide value (or do people value outcomes from others using them instead)?
- What further data sources could help us build a more complete picture of the exporter journey?
- How can we better understand the integrity (i.e. accuracy, completeness, and consistency) and use of Population Movement data?
- What are the underlying drivers of geographical differences in educational attainment?
- What can cognitive science and neuroscientific developments tell us about effective teaching approaches?
- How can ‘systems science’ be used by government and regulators to improve their understanding, making their policies better targeted and more effective? How can ‘behavioural science’ be used to influence the behaviour of key stakeholders (regulators, businesses and/or policymakers) to achieve better policy outcomes?