At the 2015 ISRF Annual Workshop, the ISRF’s Fellows reported on their work, to each other and to a wider audience drawn from its host, the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.

The Workshop focused on the ISRF’s requirement that the research should be interdisciplinary, innovative and critical. The topic for this year’s Workshop was ‘Social Science as Communication’.The title ‘Social Science as Communication’ was intended to provoke uncertainty.

Is one communicating when doing social science? Is one doing social science when communicating? Re-thinking social science as (being) communication? Re-thinking communication? What is being communicated? What counts as communication (anyway)? A panel of the ISRF’s Fellows were invited to consider these and other options, and Fellows were be asked to bear the Workshop theme in mind when presenting their own work.

On Day Two, the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science hosted panels on ‘The Media, The Academy and The Referendum’ and ‘Digital Social Science’, and presented a lunchtime communication carnival: ‘a promenade presentation of creative and committed experiments in social science communication’.