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 […]
Face Mask Evangelism, Trust and Democracy
The Great Mask Debate is limping towards closure. While there is no single conclusive piece of evidence, the best research points towards […]
Database Tracks Attempts To Ban Critical Race Theory
Few topics in education have dominated the news over the past few years as much as efforts to ban critical race theory from the nation’s schools. The topic is so pervasive that researchers at the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program have created a new database to track attempts by local and state government to outlaw the teaching of the theory, which holds, among other things, that racism is not just expressed on an individual level, but rather is deeply embedded in the nation’s laws and policies. The Conversation asked Taifha Natalee Alexander, director and supervisor of the database, about the overarching purpose of the database and what it has shown thus far.
Improving Service Quality for Consumers Experiencing Vulnerabilities in the Marketplace
With this research, we provide evidence for an intervention strategy that can improve the service quality that consumers experiencing vulnerabilities face in the marketplace.
Lecture: Edward Miguel on Measuring Childhood Health Investments
In the latest of its centennial year lecture series, the Social Science Research Council asks “What are the Long-Run and Inter-Generational Impacts […]
Social Science Research Council Turns 100: The Early Years
This article is the first in a series celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Social Science Research Council—a New York City-based independent […]
DORA Announces Three-Year Plan For Research Assessment Reform
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, or DORA, has released a strategic plan to reinforce the organization’s vision “to advance practical and robust approaches to research assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines.”
Opening The Black Box Of Benefits Management In The Context Of Projects
The main goal of our study was, hence, to complement the current technical knowledge on benefits management with an in-depth understanding of the social practices that constitute benefits management.
Petter Johansson on Choice Blindness
We are “less aware of the reasons for our choices than we think we are,” Petter Johansson and his partner Lars Hall have determined, and reasoning, as we call it, is often conducted post hoc.
