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 […]
The Decameron Revisited – Pandemic as Farce
After viewing the the televised version of the The Decameron, our Robert Dingwall asks what the farce set during the Black Death says about a more recent pandemic.
The Work of Understanding The ‘Future of Work’
Understanding changes in the nature of work requires more than just following current trends and buzzwords; it requires leveraging and integrating scholarly traditions that have long studied work in all its richness.
The Israel/Palestinian Crisis and International Relations Theory
The October 7, 2024, attack by Hamas on Israel, and the subsequent massive Israeli military response, have once again plunged the Middle […]
Turning Real-Life Drama into Scholarly Insight: Lessons from the Wild Boars Rescue
Co-authors Amélie Cloutier and Andrew Webb reflect on the inspiration behind their recently published academic article – the rescue of a soccer team from a cave in Thailand.
Iris Berent on the Innate in Human Nature
How much of our understanding of the world comes built-in? More than you’d expect. That’s the conclusion that Iris Berent, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and head of the Language and Mind Lab there, has come to after years of research
Using Advanced Machine Learning to Better Understand the Emotional Intensity of Online Reviews
In this article, Sanghyub John Lee and Rouxelle de Villiers reflect on the inspiration of the research article, “Unveiling Emotional Intensity in Online Reviews: […]
A Cautionary Tale: Flawed Electoral Science Can Harm Democracy
As political polarization deepens across advanced democracies, disputes over election fraud allegations have become commonplace. And analysis by academic researchers and other experts into alleged fraud can have substantial influence.
Navigating the Maze of Social Interaction: A Framework for Analysis
In the labyrinth of academic exploration, write the authors, there are moments when frustration becomes the catalyst for innovation. Such was the genesis of their paper analyzing social interaction in organizations.
