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 […]
Why Do We Still Have Journals?
It’s time for a broader dialogue about how we connect the aims of the social science enterprise to our system of journals, argues the editor of Administrative Science Quarterly.
Webinar: Innovations in Disseminating Psychological Science
Earlier this month Aime Ballard-Wood, director of publications for the Association for Psychological Science, discussed recent efforts for heightened dissemination of psychological […]
A Year in the Life of a News Site With Scholarship In Its DNA
The Conversation UK, a Social Science Space media partner, is celebrating its first birthday on May 16. Here its editors reflect on stories — penned or influenced by academics — that were particularly powerful or memorable.
Why Not Give Journalists a Tip on Data-Driven Sources
Liliana Bounegru looks at how media scholars have leveraged digital data and algorithmic accountability. In times of shrinking news budgets and staff cuts journalists can turn to such readily available sources of data as a way to understand public engagement with major issues.
Concrete Advice for Writing Informative Abstracts
Be substantive and communicate your key findings – simple counsel from Patrick Dunleavy. But how exactly do you that? Here’s how.
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. The articles linked below are free […]
10 Takeaways on the Academy’s Digital Trust Issues
A just-released project asking if the digital tsunami is leaving trust in scholarly communication all wet found that the academy still runs to traditional means to determine reliability.
Universities a Safe Home for Ideas – But Only Safe Ideas
Once the cry at universities was “Dare to know!” But with speech that could make some people uncomfortable, the new cry is increasingly, “Dare to no!”
