Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 800 journals. The articles linked below are free […]
Spending Review: Research Ringfence Holds, But Doesn’t Expand
The Comprehensive Spending Review released today does protect the UK’s government-funded research budget as promised, but the research community sees lots of ways that the future on innovation could have been brighter and more robust.
James Wilsdon on the 2015 Spending Review
The Campaign for Social Science welcomes the relative protection given to the science budget in the spending review, says its chair, James Wilsdon, but it’s premature to see this as a good outcome for the long term health of the UK’s research base.
Announcing the Winner of Public Finance Review’s Outstanding Paper Award of 2015
We’re pleased to congratulate Timothy F. Page and Karen Smith Conway, winners of the Outstanding Paper Award of 2015 from Public Finance […]
Sustainable Discovery and Google Scholar’s Comprehensive Coverage
On the 11th anniversary of Google Scholar, Max Kemman provides an overview of the growth and impact of the platform and examines why Google Scholar is virtually unrivaled — and whether that’s a good thing or not.
Campaign for Social Science Adds Board Members
Britain’s Campaign for Social Science has added eight new members to its board, including the recent director of the Nuffield Foundation and […]
The Value Added by Universities Exceeds Their Constituent Services
Academics do not simply teach and do research: they are teacher-researchers, notes Steve Fuller. In reviewing the UK spending review, he says, it is the value added to society by nurturing this complex role that should be at the forefront of the state’s thinking about the criteria used to fund universities.
Gather Classroom Data and Encourage Learning with the Attendance2 App
[We’re pleased to welcome Cathy Finger of St. Mary’s College. Professor Finger published a review entitled “iOS Application, ‘Attendance2′” in the April 2015 issue […]
