Introducing interactive social science

The papers in this special issue examine the content and practice of interactive social science and its developing institutional context. Although the contemporary environment of academic research and funding is relevant, the papers engage with themes which have preoccupied social scientists for many years: what is distinctive about social scientific knowledge, how is it produced and used, how might it be evaluated, and how does it relate to other forms of knowledge including the knowledge of those who are the subjects of study? Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.