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Sage has been named among Stonewall's Top 100 Employers for 2024, receiving a Gold Award for LGBTQ+ inclusion. This award is testament to the hard work and dedication of several colleagues across the organization, particularly the members and co-leads of our LGBTIAQ+ Employee Resource Group. Kiren Shoman, Sage's Global Executive Lead for DEI, reflects that "whilst we celebrate this award, it does not make us complacent about the work yet to be done." Read more: https://ow.ly/Vz2W50SBtSC #StonewallTop100

This year's virtual Jumpstart Conference is on July 31 from 9am-4pm CST. “Racial Justice in a Changing Democracy” will focus on challenges faced by scholars, activists, and advocates for racial justice in our current sociopolitical context and strategies to continue to advance this work. Keynote speakers include Venus Evans-Winters, Jarvis Givens, and more. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/erf8NphQ

Over 200 attendees participated in “Banned Books from the Big Chair” at this year's American Library Association Conference: https://lnkd.in/eRUBhKMV Thank you to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, the Banned Books Week coalition, and all the attendees and authors who read passages from their favorite banned books. Guests in the Big Chair included Miss Black America Gabrielle K. Wilson, author and educator Sonja Cherry-Paul, EdD, and Dr. Ashley Gibson, Ed.D, MTS, BA.

Do policies built around social and behavioral science research actually work? Megan Stevenson, professor of law and of economics, discusses how well randomized control trials can predict the real-world efficacy of interventions in criminal justice. Listen to the new episode of the Social Science Bites podcast or read the transcript: https://ow.ly/3CUw50St8PC

🗓️ Upcoming Webinar, July 10 – Decolonizing Queer Academia: LGBTQ+ Experiences Outside the Western Lens. Register now: https://lnkd.in/eXFxiemW Queer studies has come a long way, but there’s still a need to expand our perspective beyond Western-centric research. In this free virtual panel, Mikee Inton-Campbell, J. Daniel Luther, Adnan Hossain, and Saskia Wieringa will take us beyond the Western lens, to explore topics from trans representation in the Philippines to gender norms in South Asian culture and more.

The latest edition of The Evidence newsletter, sponsored by Sage, looks at how post-conflict peace processes often overlook the needs of women, and what needs to change. Read it here: https://ow.ly/t1cC50SomRK And view the archive on Social Science Space: https://ow.ly/hHu850SomRL Les Glorieuses

We're excited to announce the launch of the new US Sage College Publishing website! Designed with both students and instructors in mind, the new site offers a wealth of free resources and makes finding new course materials easier and faster. Explore the new site: https://ow.ly/Z5sE50Snbh0

We’re delighted to reveal the winners of the fifth-annual 10-Year Impact Awards. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eADRc8YX This year’s awards honor research published in Sage Journals in 2013 with enduring influence over the past decade. “The impact of academic research, especially in the social and behavioral sciences, often goes beyond the standard two-year citation window. These awards extend that period to ten years, recognizing work with a deep and lasting impact that might be overlooked in the short term” — Ziyad Marar. Congratulations to the authors of the winning articles: Andreas Geiger, Philip Lenz, Christoph Stiller, Raquel Urtasun, Jonathan St. B. Evans, Keith E. Stanovich, and Geoff Cumming.