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 […]
Watch the Webinar: Publishing Trends and Academic Writers
From scholarly article to practical guides, from textbooks to media, from weighty tomes to tweets, researchers and academic writers have many options […]
Marketing Opportunities and the Commercialization of Social Sciences
The social sciences have a crucial role to play in the COVID-19 recovery, and in addressing many other challenges society faces. However, […]
How Can We Ensure Our Research is Inclusive?
COVID-19 has led to new ways of working which have transformed research practices. This has created opportunities for research cultures to be more inclusive and accessible- especially to those for whom the university is a barrier. However, post-pandemic, research cultures also need to change. In this post, Stuart Read, Anne Parfitt and Tanvir Bush outline three provocations that researchers can ask as part of an inclusive research practice.
How to Run an Academic Writing Retreat
Since it started in 2011, Academic Writing Month has seen a growth of workshops and initiatives aimed at helping researchers to prioritise […]
Reminded Anew: ‘A Lot of Room for Humility in Polling’
The latest American election made it evident that polls faltered, overall. And that misstep promises to resonate through the field of survey research.
SHAPE – A Focus on the Human World
Social sciences, humanities and the arts can help us in our endeavors, which is why we, along with the British Academy and others, have recently launched SHAPE: Social sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy
Why Social Science? With Prevalent Misogyny, Women Still Don’t ‘Rule’ Equally to Men
Fifty years after Ruth Bader Ginsberg worked to secure constitutional equality for women, misogyny is still alive and well in the American […]
Businesses See the Value of Social Sciences, But Does Higher Education Policy?
The social sciences are recognized for their role in evaluating policy and offering practice-based interventions about ‘what works’. However, they are less […]
