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 […]
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 […]
Statement in respect of Browne Review proposals and CSR announcement on 20th Oct 2010
The Academy has issued the following statement in response to the Browne Review and the Comprehensive Spending Review announcement of 20 October […]
Knowledge Divides – 2010 World Social Science Report
The 2010 World Social Science Report (WSSR) produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and co-published by UNESCO was launched by […]
Making the Case For the Social Sciences no.1: Wellbeing
Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by the Academy of Social Sciences, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research […]
