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 […]
On Measuring Social Science Impact: An Excerpt and Responses
On Measuring Social Science Impact: An Excerpt and Responses The following essay by Ziyad Marar is adapted from “On Measuring Social Science […]
Why Social Science? Because Changing Behavior is Essential to Addressing Climate Change
The challenge of climate change is enormous and requires an all-of-science effort. Psychologists must be part of the solution.
The Perils of Measuring Performance, Inside and Outside Academia
Quantification can reformulate something as complex and multidimensional as teaching into a one-dimensional score. And such a score gives the possessor a sense of control and understanding. But, given the implications of quantification, this is an illusion.
Connecting Social Science And Policy: A View from Nigeria
Good social science research has ultimate social relevance. In Nigeria, however, the authors’ study shows that research evidence and policies are disconnected.
Connecting Academia and Civil Society: Walking an Impact Tightrope
For researchers in civil society organizations publishing and collaborating with academics on mutually beneficial projects is uncommon. Oxfam’s Franziska Mager discusses the barriers and benefits to research that brings together charities and academia and how this reflects different valuations of impact.
Sheila Jasanoff Receives 2022 Holberg Prize
Sheila Sen Jasanoff, one of the world’s foremost theorists examining the interaction of science and technology with human society, has received the 2022 Holberg Prize,
WHO’s New Pandemic Advisory Body Urged to Tap Into Social And Behavioral Science
An open letter from World Health Organization experts urges another WHO body to use use social and behavioral science “to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”
An Invisible Bias with Real Implications for Women Leaders
The underrepresentation of women in senior leadership positions across all sectors is clearly not a pipeline issue. Research points to bias as one reason they aren’t getting ahead.
