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 […]
Does the way social scientists write stop them being heard?
The commentator Nick Cohen argues in an article this week that many academics – specifically in social sciences and humanities – are unable to write clearly […]
The arts and cultural sector faces ‘apocalyptic’ cuts in austere Britain. But new ways of looking at economic value can help to make the case for culture
In the government’s programme of cuts it has become clear that the arts may well be hit the hardest. While historically it […]
Who is influencing public policy and why?
Reposted from Methodspace: a summary of the NatCen Informing Public Policy New Agendas for Social Research Conference (23-24 April 2009) Chair: George […]
Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, […]
It wasn’t social science that caused the economic crisis!
I know the season for frivolous quiz games has passed but do you know who is buried in Westminster Abbey? More generally, […]
Making the Case for the Social Sciences no.2: Ageing
As ‘STEM’ started to become shorthand for ‘the only sort of research work that is of importance to our economy’, and the […]
Making the case no.1: Wellbeing
Download a copy of this report from the Academy of Social Sciences Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by […]
Social science – moving society forward
It is vital not to overlook the need for social science work in supporting other advances in our society and the wider […]
