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 […]
November 16, 2020
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Layard Receives Lifetime Achievement Award as ESRC Names 2020 Impact Winners
Britain’s Celebrating Impact competition, now in its eighth year, recognizes and rewards ESRC-funded researchers who have achieved impact through outstanding research, knowledge exchange activities, collaborative partnerships and engagement with different communities.
Teaching Students Quants is Hard Enough. Now I Have to Do It on MS Teams!
We have spent the best part of a decade trying, testing and honing techniques to engage and enthuse our undergrads with quantitative data analysis, explains Julie Scott Jones. Then a global pandemic arrived.
CASBS Leader Margaret Levi Receives Breakthrough of the Year Award
Margaret Levi’s conception of “an expanded community of fate” gained international recognition as the 2020 “Breakthrough of the Year” in the social sciences and humanities. The Falling Walls Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Berlin, selected 10 “Breakthroughs” out of a pool of nearly 1,000 nominations from 111 countries.
We Must Learn to Live With the Virus – Just Like Samuel Pepys Lived With the Great Plague
Humanity has a long history of dealing with things like pandemics. What history shows us is that the only practicable interventions are social and behavioral. How can we slow the movement of the new infection through the population while medical science catches up with treatments or vaccines?
Senate Appropriations Panel Submits Budget for Science Agency
Although the presidential election sucked all the available oxygen out of America’s body politic, the business of running the government is returning […]
How Can We Ensure Our Research is Inclusive?
COVID-19 has led to new ways of working which have transformed research practices. This has created opportunities for research cultures to be more inclusive and accessible- especially to those for whom the university is a barrier. However, post-pandemic, research cultures also need to change. In this post, Stuart Read, Anne Parfitt and Tanvir Bush outline three provocations that researchers can ask as part of an inclusive research practice.
How to Run an Academic Writing Retreat
Since it started in 2011, Academic Writing Month has seen a growth of workshops and initiatives aimed at helping researchers to prioritise […]
Reminded Anew: ‘A Lot of Room for Humility in Polling’
The latest American election made it evident that polls faltered, overall. And that misstep promises to resonate through the field of survey research.
