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 […]
The Theorist of Mass Communication: Denis McQuail, 1935-2017
Denis McQuail, the British social scientist and foundational theorist in mass communication both through his scholarship and his hugely influential textbook ‘McQuail’s Mass Communication Theory,’ died at age 82.
Archived Webinar: Presenting Data Effectively
Crystal clear graphs, slides, and reports are valuable – they save an audience’s mental energies, keep a reader engaged, and make you look smart. This webinar covers the science behind presenting data effectively and will leave viewers with direct, pointed changes that can be immediately administered to significantly increase impact.
Leadership and the UK General Election 2017
For social scientists, there must be a concern that a generation’s worth of accumulated empirical evidence on effective leadership has made so little impact on the candidates in the upcoming General Election in the United Kingdom.
Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective, Part 3
Ask a number of influential social scientists who in turn influenced them, and you’d likely get a blue-ribbon primer on the classics in social science. And so it as we present the third and final series of answers to that question drawn from the first 50 guests on the Social Science Bites podcast series.
BPS Award-Winner Alex Haslam on Teams and Trump
Social psychologist Alex Haslam talks about many of his research interests, from Donald Trump to identity politics to classic studies – is his ‘glass cliff work’ with Michelle Ryan count? – in a wide-ranging interview following his receiving the President’s Award from the British Psychological Society.
New ‘Roadmap’ Shows Path to Better British Health
A new report from the Campaign for Social Science argues that behavioral approaches — both at an individual and an institutional level – can and must be part of the attempt to improvement health and the NHS.
New Think Tank Starts Policy Research Critique Series
Social Science Works, a new German-based international think tank, launches a product to assist decision makers in evaluating the quality of social science research.
Social Science and Health Service Delivery
A pending report from the Campaign for Social Science, titled, “The Health of People,” will make the case about the importance of social and behavioral science to health policy and practice in Britain. A video from the report’s contributors teases some of the arguments that will be made.
