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 […]
A Quick Examination of Existing Academic Impact Metrics and Concerns in Business Education
A new white paper from SAGE Business examines existing bibliometrics and institutional reward structures at play within business schools. We aim to move the dial toward ways in which societal impact could become central to the assessment of business and management research.
Restoring Regina Twala, Southern Africa’s Erased Activist and Anthropologist
Born in South Africa and exiled to neighboring Eswatini, Regina Twala was one of southern Africa’s most important intellectuals: a pioneering writer, academic, political activist and feminist. Why, then, has she been all but forgotten?
ERSC Celebrating Impact Prize 2022 Winners Announced
Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) announced winners in six categories of its Celebrating Impact Prize 2022 on Nov. 3. Now in its tenth year, the prize celebrates the success of ESRC-funded researchers in achieving and enabling outstanding economic or societal impact from excellent research. The ESRC is the UK’s largest f
Cementing the Link Between Social Sciences and Humanities Studies with Future Employment
The author’s team’s research shows universities should rethink internships and work-integrated learning for social sciences and humanities students in a way that helps community partners build capacity for innovation.
‘Organization Studies’ Seeks to Award Impactful Student Papers
The Organization Studies and SAGE Student Paper Impact Award is awarded annually to reward post-graduate students who have written a paper that has generated considerable societal impact.
Social Scientists Should Take a Gander at Golden Goose Award
The annual award ceremony for the Golden Goose Award will take place on September 14, 2022, starting at 6:30 p.m. ET. While […]
Mercury Project Names First Cohort to Fight Health Misinformation and Increase Vaccine Uptake
Through the SSRC’s Mercury Project, a first cohort of 12 teams from 17 countries is tasked with researching locally tailored solutions on how bad health information spreads, how to combat it, how to build stronger information systems, and how to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates.
Paper on Showing Significance Proves Very Significant Decade Later
An academic paper that asserts you can present nearly any research finding as significant would be widely read and cited has received more that 4,000 citations since it was published in 2011.
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