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 […]
AAU Explains Why the U.S. Federal Government Funds Social and Behavioral Sciences Research
Once again, the American Association of Universities has come out to publicly support social and behavioral research funding. As a follow up to […]
The Science of Science Communication
The National Academy of Sciences hosted the second Arthur M. Sackler colloquium on the topic of the science of science communication, from […]
Statement by AAU on Support for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
We are pleased to report that this statement came out just today from the American Association of Universities: […]
Congress, Business & Advocates Need Good Data; Why Survey Response Rates are Falling
A Congressional briefing in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center: Legislators, advocates and businesses depend on data to do their work. Much of […]
What Is the Value of Social Science?
Ziyad Marar argues that greater funding of the social sciences is needed, not less
New Social Media, New Social Science? Blurring the Boundaries: One Year On
Last year, SAGE, the National Centre for Social Research and the Oxford Internet Institute set up a network for social media researchers […]
How do you establish trust and authority in today’s scholarly digital environment?
We would like to invite early career researchers to take part in a focus group to look at how scholars assign trust […]
Big Data: Benefit to Society, or Drowning in a Data Deluge?
With larger data sets offering researchers the potential to look at more subtle interactions, big data is becoming increasingly valuable to social sciences, yet challenges remain.
