Social Science

Antibiotics cause an imbalance between fungi and bacteria in our microbiome. New ways of understanding this imbalance can help protect against serious disease

Being outside of the mainstream helped guide Dr Andrea Rawluk onto a path of research that asks us to challenge the status quo to integrate the environment and society

Computational social science has come to the fore in the COVID-19 response, allowing policy makers to trial policies on ‘artificial societies’ and see the results – before doing it in real life

Social researcher Dr Rebecca Huntley says renewing democracy is critical to dealing with climate change because there’s little trust in our current politics to do anything about it

Despite reports of the demise of psychoanalysis, in some parts of the world, Freud’s psychoanalytic ideas are alive and well

Informatics researcher Paul Dourish on how the algorithms that guide our social lives and organisation are themselves products of human social actions