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 […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Ian Quigg
In the final installment of the 10 top essays submitted to the ESRC reflecting on how a social science-influenced world will look in 2015, we present Ian Quigg’s ruminations on what capitalism will look like after another half century’s buffeting by the ‘perennial gale of creative destruction.’
Social Science Bites Makes Leap to Print
This month, a collection of 18 Social Science Bites podcasts has been released by Social Science Space’s parent, SAGE Publishing in book form. We talk with series co-host Dave Edmonds about Bites’ genesis and direction.
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Sam Miles
Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Sam Miles’ question of whether greater exposure to the cyberworld is creating a dystopia or a utopia.
Timeline of US Government and Social/Behavioral Science
Vannevar Bush’s post-war review of American science priorities set the tone for the federal funding of social and behavioral science ever since.
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Rebecca Wheeler
Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Rebecca Wheeler’s hopes that applied cognitive psychology can and should improve policing.
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Matjaz Vidmar
Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Matjaz Vidmar and his look at a unique environment for conducting academic research half a century hence …
Making Interdisciplinarity the Norm
Ziyad Marar, the global publishing director for Social Science Space’s parent, SAGE Publishing, discusses the bright-ish future of interdisciplinary social research as his contribution to the annual questioned posed by the Edge.org website.
New Year Honours List Includes Number of Social Scientists
A social anthropologist who works to create a globally sustainable future and a geographer who until recently headed the Economic and Social Research Council were among a number of British citizens cited for “service to social science” in Queen Elizabeth’s just-released New Year Honours lists.
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