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 […]
Talking With Bennie Kara, Winner of the First SAGE Social Justice Book Award
As a student, recalls Bennie Kara, school was a haven. And that haven beckoned to her as she mapped out her career […]
Alondra Nelson Tabbed to Serve as Acting Head of OSTP
On Wednesday, President Joseph Biden handed sociologist Alondra Nelson interim leadership of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Nelson currently serves as OSTP’s deputy director for science and society
NSF Grant Aims to Create Interoperable Standards for Social and Behavioral Data
The National Science Foundation in committing $38 million to establish a new platform to wrangle the ever-increasing amount of social and behavioral […]
Barney Glaser, 1930-2022: The Guardian of Grounded Theory
Sociologist Barney G. Glaser, who co-discovered the qualitative methodology known as grounded theory, has died at age 91.
Social and Behavioral Scientists Named in Australia Day Honors
The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia released the 2022 Australia Day Honours List, and sprinkled among the 1,040 honorees were several prominent Antipodean social and behavioral scientists.
MLK and His Impact on Social Science Scholarship
In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth on January 15, 1929, we offer a selection of scholarship from the social science community that directly cites King’s message as a subject or the nexus of the paper.
Learned Commentary on the Legacy of January 6 Attack
January 6 provided both a natural experiment for current research and a chance to see if past predictions might play out as expected. This collection of academic commentary on the attack should add ore light than heat to the discussion.
Ithaka Report Asks How Universities Can Better Support Big Data Research
A new report on supporting the big data infrastructure needs of universities offers a variety of real-world recommendations for improving the research environment.
