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 […]
A Social Scientist Looks at the Irish Border and Its Future
‘What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Irish Border?’ is a new book from Katy Hayward that applies social science to the existing issues and what they portend.
Award Recipient Promotes Archives-Centered Educational Opportunities
The ALA’s Marta Lange Award this year goes to Jill Severn based on her work creating the Special Collections Faculty Fellowship Program at the University of Georgia’s Russell Library, which the committee sees as “a wonderful model for how archival collections can be introduced into political science education.”
Marking the First Decade of the First Social Science Megajournal
With the 10th anniversary of its launch upon us, we asked Bailey Baumann, an editor for SAGE’s open access journals, some questions about the decade and SAGE Open’s growth.
Event: Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
For the first time, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences – Canada’s largest industry event and one of most comprehensive […]
Watch the Talk: Sustaining STEM Students Across Academic Pathways
Academic pipeline programs have created safe spaces for women, minorities and persons with disabilities to receive training in STEM disciplines for several […]
Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, 1920-2021: Pioneer in Social Indicators Movement
Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, a pioneer in the use of social indicators as an important tool of social science, died on May 8 at the age of 101.
Ronald Inglehart, 1934-2021: Founder of the World Values Survey
Ron Inglehart, a political scientist whose work on surveying values around the world set new and higher bars on what such studies could achieve, has died at age 86.
Social Science Conversations on the Legacy of George Floyd
After Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd, calls for reform and the restructuring of institutions fuel continuing calls for […]
