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 […]
Report: Metrics Not Mature Enough to Replace Peer Review
A new report looking at the role of metrics in analyzing British academe finds, ‘A lot of the things we value most in academic culture resist simple quantification, and individual indicators can struggle to do justice to the richness and diversity of our research.’
This Global Science Map Is Not Destiny
There is less research in the global south than in the north, but Laura Czerniewicz notes that there’s actually more than quick metrics capture and that perceptions of ‘science. and research outputs must be broadened.
Stories of Research to Reality: Jim Knight
Learning coach explains the “complexity of teaching” in his installment of a series detailing the contributions social science makes in everyday lives.
ESRC Recognizes Researchers Who Make a Difference
A professor of politics who reached millions with his and his team’s analysis of the Scottish independence referendum, a psychologist who helped […]
Stories of Research to Reality: Michael Reisch
Historian and social justice professor Michael Reisch used the example of the case of Freddie Gray in his own home of Baltimore to show how much social science could add to examinations of poverty.
Stories of Research to Reality: Claire M. Renzetti
The fourth speaker in this series is Claire M. Renzetti, chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. Here she talks about the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, the same year that she agreed to be the founding editor of the international, interdisciplinary journal ‘Violence Against Women’.
Stories of Research to Reality: John W. Creswell
”Here’s the message I want to give you today: We’re all very close to research. When we gather information to understand this world that we’re in, we are gathering both numbers and statistics, and the stories of people. The research methods I do put those two together.”
Stories of Research to Reality: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
New York University’s Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory to model complex decision making – “by the way, that is the hard science,” he says – which in turn demonstrates how social science really can matter in real life.
