ICSU to Merge with ISSC

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Council ◽  
International Social

AbstractAt an extraordinary General Assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and General Assembly of the International Social Science Council (ISSC), held in Oslo on 24 October 2016, members voted overwhelmingly that the two organizations should merge. This in-principle decision followed a recommendation by the two organizations’ executives, setting the two councils on a trajectory to become one by October 2018.

Award of the Stein Rokkan Prize 1981 to Manfred G. Schmidt

1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-504
Author(s):  
Manfred G. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Internationaler Vergleich ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
International Social

The Stein Rokkan Prize was set up by the International Social Science Council and the Conjunto Universitario Candido Mendes to honour a seminal work by a young social scientist in comparative social science. The Prize, in the sum of two thousand dollars, was awarded for the first time on 17 November 1981 at a session of the General Assembly of the ISSC to Manfred G. Schmidt, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Konstanz, for his manuscript entitled: “Wohlfahrtstaatliche Politik unter bürgerlichen und sozialdemokratischen Regierungen. Ein internationaler Vergleich”. We are pleased to print the speech he made on receiving the award.

2016 to Be the International Year of Global Understanding

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
International Council ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Understanding ◽  
Local Impacts ◽  
And Migration ◽  
International Social

Last September, on the first day of the World Social Science Forum 2015 in Durban, South Africa, the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) jointly announced that 2016 would be the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU). The aim of IYGU is to promote better understanding of how the local impacts the global in order to foster smart policies to tackle critical global challenges, such as climate change, food security, and migration.

Research Networking and Collaboration: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1128-1136
Author(s):  
Ian F. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Research Network ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Research Networking ◽  
International Social

Doing social science involves collaboration. Yet, there has been little attention to the character of collaboration between social scientists, or to if and in what ways research networks exist. This article reports aspects of a mixed method, participatory case study of a small international social work research network. It sets out how someone becomes a member of—or leaves—the network, how roles appeared to form and be assigned or taken, how the network operates, and the perceived transitional status of the network. The nature of collaboration is central to this analysis. The article illumines forms of collaboration typically deemphasized in arguments for its desirability. It was not characterized by consensus, but required role friction and creative reflexivity, where uncertainty and ambiguity were endemic, sometimes productively so.

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