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 […]
War in History: Open Access Journals
Simon Ball, Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow, discusses the dangers of Gold Route OA to the Humanities and scholarship in general.
Campaign for Social Science Roadshows
The Campaign for Social Science will hold its latest roadshows in the next few weeks.
How Close Were We to Armageddon? The Cuban Missile Crisis.
50 years on, the Cuban Missile Crisis may still prove to be one of the most important events in understanding modern International diplomacy.
Do Adult Drug Courts Produce Other Psychosocial Benefits?
Although by no means a household word, “drug courts” have been among the most studied criminal justice interventions of the past two decades. So what are these courts, and why do they matter?
The Internet Black Widow
When some journalist awards a case a sobriquet like The Railway Rapist, or the Moors Murderers that the media has got its teeth into the case and will shake as much life out of it as possible.
I Have No Time to Think and Write
The extent to which academics in different situations own their time appears to be closely associated with the distribution of privilege. In an academic world that is elitist one needs to acquire privileges in order to have time.
How Much Autonomy Do You Have as a Post-Doc
Considering the relationship between researcher and institution – maybe the disclaimer isn’t enough.
