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 […]
Speech by UK universities minister on longitudinal studies and social mobility
In a speech this week in London – against a backdrop of students protesting noisily about government cuts to higher education – […]
“Research matters: Graduates with quantitive methods skills are increasingly sought after”
Ricky Rylance writes in the Independent about the value of quantitive methods to social science students. “Mention quantitive methods to any social […]
“Is international relations still ‘an American social science’?”
Stephen M. Walt asks in a Foreign Policy blog-post whether the field of international relations is still dominated by scholars from North […]
A US perspective on England’s new private ‘liberal arts’ college
A US perspective on the New College of the Humanities in the UK, which will charge students £18,000 per year and will offer […]
“Fighting for the social sciences”
A new post on the Center for International Forestry Research blog sets out the importance of social sciences in understanding the causes […]
Who benefits from benefits?
This was the question posed at the most recent ‘Myths and Realities’ debate hosted this week in London by the British Library […]
Understanding why refugees in London work in the ‘informal economy’
A new report by Community Links and the Refugee Council examines the causes of informal economic activity within refugee communities in London […]
“Don’t look to the Ivy League”
In an essay published in the London Review of Books, Howard Hotson analyses the THE-QS World University Rankings and concludes that market […]
