Social science matters

The social and human sciences provide crucial insights towards our collective social, environmental and economic realities and potential futures. They are vital in ensuring the effectiveness and viability of policies and together with STEM subjects, they can help understand and address sustainability challenges at various levels. The current global context, marked by uncertainty, complexity and urgency, highlights the acute need to leverage learning from these disciplines.

A key strength of the ISC is that its membership includes both natural and social sciences. This proposed project intends to draw on the ISC membership to enable the ISC to facilitate social science collaboration and strengthen the contribution of social sciences and humanities, including new ways to integrate the cultural, social, economic and political dimensions in sustainable development policies at national and multilateral levels.

Given that effective and holistic policies require insights from the social sciences, enabling interface between experts from a range of disciplinary and contextual backgrounds with policymakers is of key importance. Acknowledging this, the ISC has led two social science research programmes in the past; Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) and the Leading Integrated Research in Africa for Agenda 2030 (LIRA 2030). Both these programmes led to key learnings1 for the global sustainability policy community and aimed to build capacity and networks in the regions the programme worked in. In addition, between 2019 and 2022, the ISC and UNDP project on ‘rethinking human development’ engaged experts from various disciplines, notably from the social sciences from around the world on the concepts and measurement of multi-dimensional wellbeing. The proposed project will be a concrete step to develop these learnings and further facilitate an enhanced role for social sciences in policy advocacy and advice as well as provide a platform for the social sciences in the work of the ISC.

One of the ISC’s predecessor organizations, the ISSC, contributed greatly to international collaboration in social science, including leading the development and publication of the World Social Science Reports. ISC with its enhanced global membership looks forward to continuing and enriching this tradition by providing opportunities for inter and transdisciplinary engagement as well as continuing to work to strengthen social sciences in the regions and globally.

Program objectives

The proposed project aims to foster international collaboration and create a global network of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners towards the following objectives:

• Understand the challenges and good practices in developing social science contributions to sustainable development policy and demonstrate the value of social science contributions to policy making and implementation.

• Develop evidence-based policy recommendations for sustainability

• Build capacity for social science research and collaboration for social transformations for sustainable development.

• Provide a platform for collaboration and for responding to common issues.

Activities and Impact

Timeline

• Phase 1 – Establishment of the program governance, securing partnerships and defining research priorities. Begin of collecting input for a report for setting the scene.
• Phase 2 – Publish of the report based on input generated from Phase 1 and launch of collaborative research or expert networks to develop policy-relevant insights and share learnings.
• Phase 3 – Highlighting and strengthening resources and findings, and establishing networks for ongoing engagement
• October 2026: Global Summit on Social Science for Sustainability in Beijing during the mid-term meeting of ISC Members.

Milestones

• January 2025: Pre-event workshop at the Global Knowledge Dialogue “Science is social: Increasing the role and visibility of the social science in sustainable development policy and practice”
• June 2025: The ISC launched a call for Steering Group members, inviting ISC Members to guide the project’s scope and activities.

Steering group

Karina Batthyány

Karina Batthyány

ISC Governing Board Member

Karina Batthyány

Prof. Craig Calhoun

Prof. Craig Calhoun

University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics

Prof. Craig Calhoun

Maria Paradiso

Maria Paradiso

ISC Governing Board Member, Professor at University of Naples Federico II

Maria Paradiso

Sawako Shirahase

Sawako Shirahase

ISC Vice-President for Finance, Compliance and Risk, Professor at University of Tokyo

Sawako Shirahase

Dr. Joyce Arriola

Dr. Joyce Arriola

Professor and Chair, Department of Communication

University of Santo Tomas, Manila

Dr. Joyce Arriola

Prof. Anna Davies

Prof. Anna Davies

Professor of Geography, Environment and Society

Trinity College

Prof. Anna Davies

Prof. Dr. Joyeeta Gupta

Prof. Dr. Joyeeta Gupta

Distinguished Professor of Climate Justice, Sustainability and Global Justice

University of Amsterdam

Prof. Dr. Joyeeta Gupta

Elizabeth Jelin

Elizabeth Jelin

Senior Researcher

CONICET and IDES

Elizabeth Jelin

Dr. Awanish Kumar

Dr. Awanish Kumar

Associate Professor, School of Development

Azim Premji University

Dr. Awanish Kumar

Dr. Ricardo López Santillán

Dr. Ricardo López Santillán

Full Professor

Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (National University of Mexico)

Dr. Ricardo López Santillán

Saui’a Louise Mataia Milo

Saui’a Louise Mataia Milo

Dean of the Faculty of Arts

National University of Samoa

Saui’a Louise Mataia Milo

Prof. Rongping MU

Prof. Rongping MU

Professor

University of Science and Technology of China

Prof. Rongping MU

Ioana Roxana Podina

Ioana Roxana Podina

Ioana Roxana Podina

Prof. Norma Romm

Prof. Norma Romm

Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of Adult, Community and Continuing Education

University of South Africa

Prof. Norma Romm

Seteney Shami

Seteney Shami

Founding Director-General

Arab Council for the Social Sciences

Seteney Shami

Yvonne Underhill-Sem

Yvonne Underhill-Sem

Pacific feminist decolonial development geographer

University of Auckland

Yvonne Underhill-Sem

Prof. Kithaka wa Mberia

Prof. Kithaka wa Mberia

Member

Kenya National Academy of Sciences

Prof. Kithaka wa Mberia

Dr. Laura Zimmermann

Dr. Laura Zimmermann

Associate Professor

University of Georgia

Dr. Laura Zimmermann

Get involved

If you are a social sciences expert, consider joining the Expert Network of the ISC Social Science Matters Programme and contribute to the activities under the Programme.

We look forward to building an engaged community working with us from around the world.

As a member of the Expert Network, you will:

• Receive regular project updates
• Be invited to join to a dedicated LinkedIn group, which will provide a forum for networking and discussion
• Have the opportunity to contribute to some of the programme activities and outputs and participate in thematic working groups around specific areas of work
• Be invited to engage in relevant policy fora
• Be able to connect, share ideas and network with a diverse community interested in developing the contribution and visibility of social science in sustainability policy

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