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 […]
Dispatches from Social and Behavioral Scientists on COVID
Has the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacted how social and behavioral scientists view and conduct research? If so, how exactly? And what are […]
Watch the 2022 SAGE-CASBS Award Lecture: Jennifer Richeson on the Myth of Racial Progress
The problem with this myth of racial equality in the United States, argues Jennifer Richeson, is that is shapes what we see and how we perceive the actual state of racial inequality.
US Getting a Permanent Chief Statistician After Two-Year Gap
Karin Orvis, an organizational psychologist who currently heads the Pentagon’s suicide prevention office, has been named the chief statistician of the United States, filling the role on a permanent basis for the first time since 2019.
Inaugural UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain Lecture Looks Across Disciplines at Decolonization
Vineeta Sinha, a sociologist whose research interests range from religiosity in the Hindu Diaspora and religion-state encounters to critiques of the social sciences’ infrastructure and rethinking classical sociological theory, will deliver the Inaugural UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain’s Annual Lecture 2022.
SAGE Concept Grants: Open for Applications
SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, is inviting applications for the 2022 SAGE Concept Grant, which provides funding for new software tools for social science research.
Inspiring the Next Generation: Methodspace Series on ‘The Future of Computational Science is Black’
“The Future of Computational Science is Black” is a series of blogs about SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2021, the first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science held at a historically Black college or university.
Gender and the Winter Olympics: A Collection
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are here and in full swing. From serene skaters on ice to dramatic showdowns on the ski […]
Nominations Invited for Annual Downs Intellectual Freedom Award
The Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas.
