2020 ASSRIC covers, but not limited to, the following topics:
Business
Management
Social Sciences
Business
- Business ethics
- Business intelligence
- Business information system
- Business law
- Business performance management
- Business statistic
Management
- Accounting & finance
- Behavioural finance
- Islamic finance
- Islamic banking
- Strategic management
- Marketing
- Risk management
- Human resource management
- Organizational behaviour
- Public management
- Management information system
- Management science
- Micro & macro economics
- Financial economics
- Development economics
- Commerce
- Entrepreneurship
- International relation
- Public relation
Social Sciences
- Teaching and Learning the Arts
- Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy
- Arts Theory and Criticism
- Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
- Visual Arts Practices
- Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
- Literary Arts Practices
- Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media
- Other Arts
- Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
- Aesthetics, Design
- Language, Linguistics
- Knowledge
- Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
- History, Historiography
- Literature/Literary Studies
- Political Science, Politics
- Teaching and Learning
- Globalisation
- Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
- Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
- First Nations and Indigenous Peoples
- Sexuality, Gender, Families
- Religion, Spirituality
- Cyberspace, Technology
- Science, Environment and the Humanities
- Other Humanities
- Sociology: concepts and practices
- Geographical perspectives on spaces and flows
- What are the behavioral sciences?
- Psychology of the social
- Where mind meets world: cognitive science as interdisciplinary practice
- Economics as social science
- Sociology and history: the dynamics of synchrony and diachrony
- Philosophy’s place in the social sciences
- Social welfare studies as interdisciplinary practice
- Health in community
- Horizons of interest: agenda setting in the social sciences
- Research and knowledge in action: the applied social sciences
- Social sciences for the professions
- Social sciences for social welfare
- Accounting for inequalities: poverty and exclusion
- Social breakdown: dysfunction, crime, conflict, violence
- Social sciences addressing social crisis points
- Technologies in and for the social
- Economics, politics and their social effects: investment, ownership, risk, productivity, competition, regulation and deregulation, public accountability, stakeholders, trust, worklife, resource distribution, consumption, wellbeing, living standards
- Commonalities, differences and relationships between the social and the natural sciences: research methodologies, professional practices and ethical positions
- Research methodologies involving ‘human subjects’
- The social sciences in the applied sciences and professions: engineering, architecture, planning, computing, tourism, law, health
- Political science as disciplinary practice
- Investigating public policy
- Law as a social science
- Criminology as social science
- Public health
- Social sciences in the service of social policy: risks and rewards
- Social transformations: structure and agency in social dynamics
- Accounting for the dynamics of citizenship, participation and inclusion
- Trust, social capital, social cohesion and social welfare
- Politics in, and of, the social sciences
- Interdisciplinary perspectives on politics, public policy, governance, citizenship and nationality
- Security and insecurity, conflict and cohesion, war and peace, terror and anti-terror
- The neo-liberal state and its critics
- Policy measures: assessing social need and social effectiveness
- Of human lifeways: anthropology in its contexts
- Of human lifecourses: family, childhood, youth, parenting and aging
- Of human origins: paleontology, primate evolution, physical anthropology
- Ethnographic methods
- Social meanings: language, linguistics, discourse, text
- Cultural studies as a constitutive field
- Social science stances: modernism and postmodernism; structuralism and poststructuralism
- Where humanities and social sciences meet
- Social structure and human culture: the sociological and the anthropological
- Interdisciplinary perspectives on human differences
- Identities in social science: generational, gender, sexuality, ethnic, diasporic
- Perspectives on, and voices of, difference: multiculturalism and feminism
- Religion and the human sciences
- Health, wellbeing and culture
- Human movement: migration, refugees, undocumented migrants
- The dynamics of globalization, diaspora and diversity
- Globalized economics: inequalities, development, ‘free’ and ‘fair’ trade
- Developed and developing worlds
- Inequalities in international perspective
- Poverty and global justice
- Human rights in global perspective
- The local and the global
- The natural and the social: interdisciplinary studies
- Human environments
- Sustainability as a focus of interdisciplinary study
- Health and the environment
- People, place and time: human demography
- Environmental governance: consumption, waste, economic ‘externalities’, sustainability, environmental equity
- Human interests in the natural sciences: the politics of the environment
- Management as social science
- Culture in organizations
- Technology and work
- The social dynamics of organizations
- Human resource management
- Workers’ rights
- Corporate governance
- Organizational and social sustainability
- Corporate social responsibility
- Knowledge ecologies: embedded knowledge in the organizational setting
- Tacit and explicit knowledge
- Private and public knowledge
- Scenario building and futures forecasting
- Organizational change
- Education as a social science
- The learning sciences as an interdisciplinary endeavor
- Action research: the logistics and ethics of interventionary social science
- Teaching and learning the social studies
- History teaching and learning
- Economics teaching and learning
- Geography teaching and learning
- Technology in learning and learning about technology
- Media studies as social science
- Communications as a social science
- Information and communications technologies
- The social web: the internet in its social context
- Human-computer interactions
- Literacies as a social learning experience