The social sciences are the key ingredients to ensure research and innovation in the UK are fully optimised, according to a new report.
The report’s authors, the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) and Digital Science, believe the social sciences are poorly funded but vital contributors to the country’s research ecosystem.
Recent initiatives in the research and innovation (R&I) sector in the UK have placed a big priority on new technologies and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects, and a limited amount on the social sciences, they say.
“UK R&I policy and strategy is now at risk of becoming lopsided and missing an equivalently rich, textured and ambitious agenda for the many ways social science research and expertise contribute to addressing the UK’s economic, social and environmental priorities,” the authors say.
