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 […]
Service Marketing
In 2009, Robert J Kwortnik Jr. and Gary M. Thompson, both of Cornell University, wrote an article entitled “Unifying Service Marketing and Operations […]
NCAA Coaching Carousel
Philip L. Hersch examines the NCAA Coaching Carousel in the article, “Does the NCAA Coaching Carousel Hamper the Professional Prospects of College […]
NAS to Organize Planning Meeting on Possible Development of K-12 Behavioral and Social Sciences Education Framework
The National Academies’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) will be awarded funding for a planning meeting to determine whether to conduct a full panel study to develop a framework for kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) behavioral and social sciences education.
New UK Campaign for Social Science
The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) will next week launch a major campaign to promote UK social science and raise its visibility […]
What happened to theory in the 21st century?
The last two decades have brought to psychology a renewed attempt to integrate both new forms of cognition (embodied, distributed cognition) as […]
Work-Life Balance
“Work–Life Balance?: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Everyday Home–Work Dynamics” by Laurie Cohen, Joanne Duberley, and Gill Musson was one of the top downloaded […]
Reform of English laws on free speech
The British government has confirmed that it will introduce a Defamation Bill in the spring, to change the law on libel and […]
Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, […]
