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 […]
Quick Tips on Being an Ethical Co-Writer
Co-authorship is now for many social science disciplines the default mode of academic authorship. Reflecting on this, Helen Kara provides insights and advice for authors looking to co-write and co-publish in an ethical way.
Online Roundtable: What it Means to be an Early Career Researcher as a Woman of Color
This round table discussion focuses on what it means to be a woman of color starting out a career in academia. Moderated […]
Watch the Archived Webinar: Demystifying Academic Processes: From Publishing Your Research to Promoting it
“Demystifying Academic Processes: From Publishing Your Research to Promoting it,” answered three main questions: How can you get published in an academic journal (whether an early career researcher or veteran)? How can you promote your publications? And how should you think about measuring impact?
UK’s Campaign for Social Science Seeks Senior Campaign Manager
Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences is seeking a pro-active, experienced and thoughtful senior campaign manager to take responsibility for developing and delivering […]
‘Suck it Up’ is Not The Right Answer to an Avalanche of Rejection
Persistent rejection by academic arbiters – whether journals, grant makers or employers – is problematic, and focusing on the individual academic is not the whole solution
How Can We Strengthen the Academic Pipeline?
While Americans have a long way to go until U.S. higher education accurately reflects the country it inhabits and honestly depicts that road that got us here, below are eight organizations working to strengthen the academic pipeline right now.
How Are You Really Doing? Asks Survey of Researchers
The reality regarding the current mental state of researchers around the world is explored in a comprehensive new survey.
Leith Mullings, 1945-2020: Anthropologist Behind the Sojourner Syndrome
Leith Mullings, an anthropologist whose work on what she dubbed the Sojourner Syndrome created a baseline understanding of the “weathering” that the amplified stresses of race, class, and inequality have on African Americans, and in particular African American women, died on Cancer on December 12.
