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 […]
December 15, 2015
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Elizabeth Houghton
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SBE Draws Three Flags in Football-Themed Waste Report
Picking up where Tom Coburn left off, the new U.S. senator from Oklahoma has released a punny compendium of what he sees as wasteful federal spending , including the inevitable shots at social and behavioral science grants.
Singapore Endows Professorship Named for First President
The Republic of Singapore is helping celebrate its first half century with a present that will enhance its second: an endowed professorship […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Gioia Barnbrook
Winning essays Overall winner “CITY Inc.” | James Fletcher, King’s College London Highly Commended “They know how much oxygen I breathe, which […]
Spending Review: Research Ringfence Holds, But Doesn’t Expand
The Comprehensive Spending Review released today does protect the UK’s government-funded research budget as promised, but the research community sees lots of ways that the future on innovation could have been brighter and more robust.
10 Stories of Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065
Over the next 10 weeks Social Science Space will present the 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists look at how social science might change the world in the next half century. The overall winner was James Fletcher of King’s College London, whose essay “CITY Inc,” imagines what the London of 2065 will look like. His vision – a city transformed into a fifth state by the impact of social sciences and finance.
Call for Mentors – International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development
The ISSBD Mentor Program is a service to provide an early-career scholar with informal mentoring by a mid-career or senior International Society […]
Nurse Review Offers a Federal Future for UK Research
A new report sought by Britain’s government argues that quality research from the UK’s seven research councils should itself be “at the heart of government” — and to achieve that those councils should be run by a single organization that has much stronger input from government than at present..
Language Expert Janet Werker Awarded SHHRC Impact Gold
Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council on Monday awarded five academics for their impactful research in a variety of key current issues, including language acquisition, refugees, water policy, homelessness and government surveillance.
