We are a research and teaching cooperative working globally from Nepal. We help people create knowledge to tell more authentic stories.
Engage complexity to disrupt the status quo
Build skills and cultivate expertise
This one-year Higher Diploma program is designed to empower you with the skills most important to the new knowledge economy: writing, research, and critical thinking. You'll be challenged to push yourself in a rigorous and supportive environment, and you'll leave with a new capacity to make change.
This hands-on workshop will help you transform your expertise into impact.
This course will help you rediscover the joy of wondering.
Get your project started right in just 4 weeks.
This course focuses on the R statistical programming language to help you see new and important stories in your data.
Learn to listen and encounter new worlds
Weave connections of care and kinship everywhere
Imagine better futures
The Open Institute for Social Science is a member-driven academic community. We believe that high-quality social research will be the substance of a more innovative, more compassionate, and more equitable world. To get there, we are searching for new and better ways to practice our craft.
The Open Institute for Social Science is an academic cooperative. We own no property, we generate no profits, and we have no employees. Very little of our work is centrally planned. Instead, our projects are driven by the passions of our membership, who coordinate and lead their social scientific efforts on our common platform.
The Open Institute for Social Science is an independent center of academic excellence, committed without compromise to local and international best practices. Though we aspire to be a resource to the worlds of policy and development, we are financially autonomous and thus free to be a very different kind of voice.