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 […]
Implementing Finch
Bookings are now open for a two-day Conference organised by the Academy of Social Sciences and kindly sponsored by the THE, Routledge, Wiley […]
SAGE opposes the Flake Amendment
Recently, the US House of Representatives passed off an amendment offered by Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that would prohibit funding for the Political Science Program with the National Science Foundation. If enacted into law, this amendment would set an extraordinary and disturbing precedent in which Congress chooses which scientific disciplines should be funded and not funded within the NSF’s research portfolio.
Campaign for Social Science: Promoting the Social Sciences to the Public, Media, and Parliament
In January 2011, the Campaign for Social Science was launched in the House of Lords. One year on Cary Cooper, Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, spoke to socialsciencespace about the first year of the campaign and its plans for the future.
ESRC’s ‘Celebrating the Social Sciences’
Here’s a quick link to the recently launched ESRC video, ‘Celebrating the social sciences’
My social science career: Interview with Elinor Ostrom
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, Elinor Ostrom spoke to socialsciencespace. In 2009, she became the […]
UK Science and Technology Committee Select Committee Announcement – The census and social science
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE Select Committee Announcement No. 98 (10-12): 9 November 2011 NEW INQUIRY ANNOUNCED The census and social science In […]
The SRA annual conference
The SRA are holding their annual conference this year at the British Library on December 6th. To find out more information and […]
