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 […]
SPARK – A Need for Social Science Parks
Despite decades of significant growth in social science expertise, research and data, some societal issues remain seemingly intractable. Instead of identifying solutions […]
Social Scientists in the Time of COVID-19: The South African Experience
It is the role of the social sciences and the humanities, on the basis of evidence, to affirm where official policy is in the public interest, but also to point to where it is not.
My New Rap Album is Peer-Reviewed and on a University Press
As a rap artist and academic, A.D. Carson wondered if he could get his new album “published” through an academic press?
Watch the Video: Fake News in the Post-Trump Era
In a conversation hosted by Stephen Khan of The Conversation UK, Nick Anstead, Irina Borogan and Salil Tripathi discuss fake news — […]
SSRC Report Tackles COVID-Driven Growing Data Economy
In a time of crisis, it might seem like a necessity to share your data in the hopes it might help solve […]
Spaces that Work for Us
Changes in our daily habits have been as simple as no longer buying our morning cup of joe on the way to […]
Consumption as Intercultural Communication and Interaction
When was the last time you went out for a Thai meal, got items from the ethnic isle of a supermarket, wore […]
HEPI Report Examines Conversation Universities Should Have With Media
In the new HEPI report, “Mixed Media: what universities need to know about journalists so they can get a better press”, veteran journalist Rosemary Bennett addresses the universities’ routine silence in public discussion of education and what they should do to rectify that.
