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 […]
Editormetrics – We’ve Created a FAIR Dataset of Journal Editors to Benefit Researchers
There is little available information about aggregate patterns of scholarly journal editorships. This may change soon, as Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher writes, thanks to a novel dataset created in collaboration with Kerstin Shoch and Tamara Heck that provides new insights into the landscape of journal editing.
Misunderstanding Markets – the Failure of UK Economic Policy
Have sociologists better understood some of Adam Smith’s cautions than have economists?
From Crisis to Change: Why Bad News Can Be Good News
Can bad news about companies be good news for them? How should companies turn crisis management to change management?
Webinar: Research in Global Crisis
Research is highly difficult during global crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, but at the same time essential, again as […]
‘Prebunking’ on YouTube in the Fight Against Misinformation
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine, misinformation is rife worldwide. Many tools have been designed to help people spot […]
Major UN Report Documents China’s Serious Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang. Will UK Universities Respond?
UK-China academic collaboration directly involves the CCP and its representatives at the university level. Against the backdrop of the Party’s human rights abuses, argues our anonymous scholar, such collaboration seems increasingly hard to justify.
The Gender Banter: Implications of Not Practicing What We Preach
“When you educate a man, you educate a person, but when you educate a woman, you educate an entire generation.” The same applies to empowering women to find their footing in organized employment.
What Do We Know About Entrepreneurship and Peace? And What Do We Need to Find Out?
As violent conflicts become both more pervasive and more localized, a better understanding of how entrepreneurship and peace interact in conflict zones will prove most useful.
