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)
How Afghanistan was broken: The disaster of the Soviet intervention From International Area Studies Review The benefits of racial diversity in the classroom From Teaching Sociology […]
Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology
What can psychology tell us about morality? Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind, discusses the place of rationality in our moral judgements in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Social science: Poked to vote Nature.com NSF grant supports innovative Big Data Social Science training Penn State Live ‘Humanities need support’ Times […]
Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, But…
It’s inevitable: social hierarchy is a defining feature of organizations, and individuals use subtle communication behaviors to assert themselves and advance within […]
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.
