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 […]
How Do Leadership Perceptions Affect Leader-Follower Exchange Quality?
[We’re pleased to welcome Patrick T. Coyle, who collaborated with Roseanne Foti on the article “If You’re Not With Me You’re . […]
Roundtable Puts Social and Behavioral Research Back on Agenda
A roundtable sponsored by the U.S. National Research Council will examine applications of social and behavioral science.
It’s Time to Take the Measure of Social Mobility
Despite its obsession with the concept of equal opportunity, the United States hasn’t actively monitored its residents’ social mobility for more than four decades. Now a group of social scientists have proposed an efficient way using existing tools to chart mobility.
Ten ‘Rules’ for Being Creative in Producing Research
Kip Jones, who from his perch as a reader in performative social science at Bournemouth University’s Centre for Qualitative Research focuses on developing tools from the arts and humanities for use by social scientists in research, offers this top 10 list of techniques to welcome in the new year.
Book Review: Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries
Have some time to read before the new semester starts? Akos Rona-Tas, Alya Guseva : Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards […]
What Does the Future Hold?
Welcome to 2015! You may have already noticed that the hover boards and flying cars we were promised in “Back to the […]
