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 […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
What are the effects of the great recession on local governments? From State and Local Government Review When battered women fight back stereotyping […]
Open Access publishing: A Personal View
We are personally skeptical about many of the major premises of Open Access Publishing, and we are certain that many of the potential implications have not been thought through. The Finch Report pays remarkably little heed to the detailed arrangements that may need to be put in place.
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Understanding the ‘zig-zag’ trend of criminal careers has policy implications From International Journal of Offender Therapy Comparative Criminology Assessing policies designed to ensure […]
A Sociologist’s Adventures in Social Media Land
Like many academics, I was quite oblivious to the virtues of using digital social media for professional purposes for rather a long time. Then one day earlier this year the scales fell from my eyes.
Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes
There is still a great deal of inequality between the sexes in the workplace. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast Paul Seabright combines insights from economics and evolutionary theory to shed light on why this might be so.
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Monsters, playboys, virgins and whores: Rape myths in the news media’s coverage of sexual violence From Language and Literature Gentlemen prefer red: A […]
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Major problems with the recent Gay-parenting study come to light, “predictive policing” aims to prevent crime, and social science insights helping to make sense of climate change. These and more in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News!
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Free press vs. free speech? The rhetoric of “civility” in regard to anonymous online comments From Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly A psychological […]
