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 […]
NSF Announces Analytics for Equity Initiative
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the Analytics for Equity Initiative for social, economic and behavioral sciences research which examines equity-related topics for public benefit via federal data and scientific advances.
How ChatGPT Could Transform Higher Education
ChatGPT is by no means a perfect accessory for the modern academic – but it might just get there.
Watch the Video: Improving Academic-Government Collaboration in Evidence-Based Policymaking
“We’ve seen trust fail in many ways, especially across sectors,” said political scientist Jake Bowers in a recent online event, hosted by […]
Event: NSF Hosts SBE Advisory Committee Meeting
The Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate is hosting its committee meeting on December 15 from 1-5 pm and December 16 from 12-4pm.
Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap
Harvard University economic historian Claudia Goldin studies the origins, causes and persistence of the gender pay gap in the United States, which she discusses in this Social Science Bites podcast.
Watch the Webinar: The Cost-of-Living Crisis
Torsten Bell, chief executive officer of the Resolution Foundation, delivered the 2022 Campaign for Social Science Annual SAGE Lecture, on November 22. […]
Report Provides Recommendations for Data Instruction in the Social Sciences
In the Ithaka S+R report “Fostering Data Literacy: Teaching with Quantitative Data in the Social Sciences,” authored by Dylan Ruediger and Danielle Miriam Cooper, examined the use and teaching of data analysis in the social sciences. Ithaka S+R is the research arm of the ITHAKA not-for-profit which aims to help “the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
The Benefits of Industry Inputs into University Teaching?
Universities do a great job of enabling their students to gain in-depth knowledge in core degree disciplines. An academic degree also demonstrates a student’s ability to learn to potential employers. This is an increasingly important attribute in an ever-changing world where job, careers and whole industries may come and go over the course of a lifetime.
