What can energy research bring to social science? Reflections on 5 years of Energy Research & Social Science and beyond

Serious games for energy social science research

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

Becoming Allies: Combining Social Science and Technological Perspectives to Improve Energy Research and Policy Making

Within the energy research community, social sciences tends to be viewed fairly narrowly, often as simply a marketing tool to change the behavior of consumers and decision makers, and to “attack market barriers.” As we see it, social sciences, which draws on sociology, psychology, political science, business administration, and other academic disciplines, is capable of far more. A social scienc...

Validity and Reliability in Social Science Research

Concepts of reliability and validity in social science research are introduced and major methods to assess reliability and validity reviewed with examples from the literature. The thrust of the paper is to provide novice researchers with an understanding of the general problem of validity in social science research and to acquaint them with approaches to developing strong support for the validi...

Community centrality and social science research.

Community centrality is a growing requirement of social science. The field's research practices are increasingly expected to conform to prescribed relationships with the people studied. Expectations about community centrality influence scholarly activities. These expectations can pressure social scientists to adhere to models of community involvement that are immediate and that include communit...