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 […]
New Blog Series: Making Critical Thinking Common Sense
Common sense is often, as you may have heard, often neither common not sensible. Usually that’s a dispiriting commentary drawn when someone […]
Ziyad Marar on Noticing
The new book Noticing: How We Attend to the World and Each Other opens with a quote from psychologist William James: “Only […]
Deciphering the Mystery of the Working-Class Voter: A View From Britain
How is class defined these these days – asking specifically about Britain here but the question certainly resonates globally – and when […]
Philip Rubin: FABBS’ Accidental Essential Man Linking Research and Policy
As he stands down from a two-year stint as the president of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, or FABBS, Social Science Space took the opportunity to download a fraction of the experiences of cognitive psychologist Philip Rubin, especially his experiences connecting science and policy.
Norman Denzin, 1941-2023: The Father of Qualitative Research
Sociologist Norman K. Denzin, whose pioneering work in developing and popularizing qualitative research methodology saw him dubbed “the father of qualitative research,” died on August 6 in Urbana, Illinois. He was 82.
You Can Merge Two Goals: A Talk with Scholar-Activist Gregory Squires
For his work on the many facets of the struggle to advance fair housing, the Urban Affairs Association has honored sociologist Gregory Squires with its 2023 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award.
‘People Are Going to Seek the Things That Are Kept From Them’: An Interview with Danian Darrell Jerry
Danian Darrell Jerry is the co-editor, with Walter Greason, of a just-released book, Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of ‘Critical Race Theory’. […]
Attacking Wicked Problems with Hip-Hop: An Interview with Walter Greason
Social Science Space caught up with Walter Greason to discuss hisjourneys, the new book ‘Illmatic Consequences’ he co-edited with Danian Darrell Jerry’, and the current political upheaval circling around the term ‘critical race theory.’
