Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
The riots of summer 2011: Seminar organised by the Campaign for Social Science
An audience of policy makers, think tanks and academics enjoyed a wide spectrum of views and insights into the events of summer […]
The riots of summer 2011 – Just criminals?
Listen to the audio from this session Chairing the third and final session at this Academy seminar on the riots, Professor Ted Cantle […]
The riots of summer 2011 – Is Britain Broken?
Listen to the audio from this session Introducing the second session at this Academy seminar on the riots, chair Trevor Phillips, Chair of […]
The riots of summer 2011 – How did we come to this?
Listen to the audio from this session The public discussion in the aftermath of the riots focussed mainly on criminal behaviour – on […]
Data for Decision Making: Three Instances of Inquiry for Improved Action
The May 2011 issue of Advances in Developing Human Resources is available online and can be found here. This special issue concerns […]
New Book Explores the Making of a Humanitarian Leader
How do seemingly ordinary people become the kind of leaders who have a meaningful and often lasting impact on the lives of […]
Anthropology under attack
So the Governor of your state just publicly attacked your college major and declared it useless; what do you do? Well, if […]
Critical thinker explains skepticism vs. cynicism
D.J. Grothe explores the difference between skepticism and cynicism in an interview with Peter M. Nardi in Miller McCune magazine, and describes […]
