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 […]
New Feminist Newsletter The Evidence Makes Research on Gender Inequality Widely Accessible
Gloria Media, with support from Sage, has launched The Evidence, a feminist newsletter that covers what you need to know about gender […]
Economist Kaye Husbands Fealing to Lead NSF’s Social Science Directorate
Kaye Husbands Fealing, an economist who has done pioneering work in the “science of broadening participation,” has been named the new leader of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
Webinar: Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT)
Ensuring responsibility in the design and development in technologies is of growing concern, especially in a world filled to the brim with […]
Gabe Miller Leaving CFHSS for Universities Canada
Gabriel Miller, currently the president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, has been named the president and chief executive officer of Universities Canada effective March 18.
New Report Finds Social Science Key Ingredient in Innovation Recipe
A new report from Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences argues that the key to success for physical science and technology research is a healthy helping of relevant social science.
Workshop: Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private and nonprofit organizations that provide advice on some of the world’s greatest […]
The Silver Lining in Bulk Retractions
This is the opening from a longer post by Adya Misra, the research integrity and inclusion manager at Social Science Space’s parent, Sage. The full post, which addresses the hows and the whys of bulk retractions in Sage’s academic journals, appears at Retraction Watch.
Berggruen Philosophy Prize Awarded to Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins
Patricia Hill Collins, a sociologist and social theorist whose work helped set the stage for theoretical examinations of intersectionality, especially for African-American women, was awarded the 2023 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture
