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 […]
My Social Science Career: Interview with George Ritzer
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, spoke to socialsciencespace about his influences in the field.
My Social Science Career: Interview with Sandra Ball-Rokeach
I’m a sociologist and my primary role at this stage of my career is championing theory-driven research, but also research that you put into action: I’m not just a theorist, or just a researcher, or just an action-person – rather I’m trying to link all of those together.
Nicholas Lemann on journalism, scholarship, and more informed reporting
Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is a veteran national affairs journalist […]
“Twitterology: a new science?”
Ben Zimmer writes in the New York Times about Twitter’s appeal to social scientists who are looking for real-time language data and […]
“The awkward guest at the dinner party”
The ninth annual Festival of Social Science took place last week in the UK, organised by the Economic and Social Research Council […]
My social science career: Interview with Sonia Livingstone
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, socialsciencespace talks to Sonia Livingstone, Professor in Media and Communications […]
‘Rick Perry’s anti-science America’
Paul Stoller considers the implications of ‘anti-science’ political candidates being elected to high office in the US and the likely impact on […]
‘In defence of public higher education’
An ‘alternative white paper’ has been published this week in the UK setting out an alternative to the Government’s proposed reforms to […]
