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 […]
New Study Supports Link Between Inequality and Crime
Compelling new evidence of a link between inequality and crime in England invites reconsideration of the individualistic ‘tough on crime’ stances of recent New Labour and Conservative governments
Nicholas Lemann on journalism, scholarship, and more informed reporting
Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is a veteran national affairs journalist […]
The LSE Big Questions Lecture 2011: Organized Common Sense
In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lecture on whether the […]
TAKING CRAP TO COURT
The ponderousness, and consequent unnecessary expense, of many legal processes was brought home to me yet again with my recent appearance as […]
Economics blogs impact positively on paper downloads and professional reputation : stand to exert an influence on policy.
With large impacts on dissemination of research and significant benefits in terms of individual reputations, David McKenzie and Berk Özler, conclude that […]
Social Science in an Emergency: An Interview with Andrew Miller MP
In 2011 the Science and Technology Select Committee published the report Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies, examining the role of science […]
ESRC’s ‘Celebrating the Social Sciences’
Here’s a quick link to the recently launched ESRC video, ‘Celebrating the social sciences’
Making the Case for the Social Sciences Issue 5 – Sport and Leisure
With the Olympic and Paralympic Games piquing the public’s interest in sport, the publication of Making the Case for the Social Sciences: […]
