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 […]
Archived Webinar: Librarians and the Freedom to Read
Last month the webinar “Battling Bannings- Authors discuss intellectual freedom and the freedom to read” saw Index on Censorship’s Vicky Baker moderate a discussion between historian Wendy Doniger and children’s book authors Christine Baldacchino and Jessica Herthel.
Evolving Door: Moving from Researcher to Research Manager
In this archived hour-long seminar, Social Science Space blogger Robert Dingwall discusses the organizational requirements and the useful skills that can be built to support the individual who wants to be a reasearch manager and the ecosystem — in both social science and STEM settings — that can support such striving.
Moderation and Mediation in Strategic Management Research
[We’re pleased to welcome Herman Aguinis of George Washington University School of Business. Herman recently published an article in Organizational Research Methods […]
ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2016 Shortlist Announced
Now in its fourth year, the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize recognizes the work conducted by researchers funded by Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council who achieve outstanding economic and societal impacts.
From Publication to the Public: Expanding your Research Beyond Academia
[Reposted with permission of the SAGE Connection blog, where this first appeared.] SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, recently held the […]
In Research, Engagement Is Not the Same As Impact
As governments seek practical metrics for determining if their research funding is money wisely spent, the quest for ‘impact’ takes on great importance. Drawing from the Australian experience, Stephen Taylor addresses several key measurement principles.
Stephen Pinfield on Institutional Open Access Funds
Stephen Pinfield, co-author of a new study looking at the role that a centralized ‘faculty publication fund’ could have on uptake of articles to the ‘gold’ version of open access publishing, discusses just how a central fund should be approached and how librarians and smaller institutions can play a role.
Articles Pertinent to US Primaries Available for Free Now
For a limited as the the United States’ presidential election cycle reaches some critical state-level primary votes, the journal Political Research Quarterly […]
