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 […]
September 15, 2014
Call for Papers: Challenges for the New Cohesion Policy in 2014-2020
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Engaging With the Untidy World of Nonprofits
What’s the best for a professional association to build engagement from its members? For one thing, notes Mark Hager in an award-winning paper, you probably can put away the souvenir tote bags.
Who Takes Humanities Courses? A Lot of Social Scientists
Parsing federal education statistics, it turns out that prospective social scientists are the most avid consumers of humanities courses as undergrads (not counting humanities majors themselves, that is).
European Scientists Fear Data Protection Overreach
Raising the drumbeat of alarm before a final European Parliament ruling later this year, a coalition of the continent’s research organizations have made explicit their opposition to new rules that they say would impede social science and medical research.
Replication Is More Common, But Still Too Rare
A study of the 100 top journals in education research found that there’s still almost no effort made to replicate the findings they publish.
Do Scholarly Publishers Need a Creative Un-Commons?
A move by an association of STEM publishers to offer a bespoke category of open-access licenses for scholarly work has stirred up proponents of the existing Creative Commons system.
Call for Papers: Sustainable Recovery? Rebalancing, Growth, and the Space Economy
Authors have until August 18 to submit 400-word abstracts for papers for the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, themed “Sustainable Recovery? Rebalancing, […]
Population Reference Bureau Picks New President
Jeffrey Jordan, former senior vice president for international programs at the Catholic Medical Mission Board, has been selected as president and CEO […]
Deputy Takes Over at Board for Science Education
Heidi Schweingruber, the deputy director of the Board on Science Education (BOSE) at the National Research Council of the National Academies, has […]
