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 […]
APA Honors Pedagogical Pundit Regan Gurung with Teaching Award
Regan Gurung, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay psychologist behind the blog ‘Pedagogical Pundit’ and a mass of scholarship on teaching psychology, has been awarded the American Psychological Association Brewer Award for his efforts.
An Archive to Be Proud Of: Social Science Bites Reaches 50 Podcasts
On the occasion of the posting of the 50th Social Science Bites podcast, we’ve turned the tables and interviewed the interviewer, Dave Edmonds, about the series, empiricism, and even Jaffa cakes.
New Administration Stokes Old Fears for Social Scientists
Given the historic antipathy that a few members of the Republican Party have had for social and behavioral science, researchers are just a bit anxious about what the new administration may bring – and with reason, according to one observer.
Please Sweat the Small Stuff (When Working for Student Success)
The turn-of-the-millennium mantra of ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’ is exactly the wrong message for ensuring that American students both get to college and thrive once there, says a leading educational researcher.
Interpreting Trump Through the Politics of Fear
Last year Ruth Wodak’s book on right-wing populist discourse, ‘The Politics of Fear,’ was published. In this Year of the Trump, she looks at how the US presidential candidate might have required adding a few pages to her work.
Visualizing Social Media Analysis
Two of the authors of case study on using Twitter for research describe the ethical challenges of working in a rapidly changing landscape, why it’s important to be able to visualize what your analysis is finding, and why it’s important not to let your analysis be derived from some sort of ‘black box’ that you as the researcher don’t fully understand.
Use Qualitative Methods In Mining the Data Gold Rush
Mylynn Felt, author of a popular paper on social media and the social sciences, hopes to see a growing blend of established qualitative techniques with newly emerging big data research methods in future social science work.
Reflecting on England’s Privatized Probation Two Years On
Two years after an experiment in privatizing public services took effect, the journal Probation Journal has published a slate of articles looking at Britain’s attempt to ‘Transform Rehabilitation’
