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 […]
Universities Are More than Their Score in Rankings Tables
Lizzie Gadd argues that any commitment to responsible research assessment needs to include action on global university rankings. She argues universities should unite around the principle of being ‘much more than their rank.’
Is Science Communication Training Worth the Candle?
Most science communication training programs query participants and get positive responses. But more probing research has shown that students consistently overestimate how well they perform.
AERA Offers Summer Series of Professional Development Courses
For a second summer, the American Educational Research Association is offering a series of online courses for researchers on using data, software and productivity tools in research.
Aussie Study Argues Book Publishing Sidelined in Ranking Universities
Academic book publishing is under threat. Global university rankings and competition for funding and international student enrolments are reshaping the research landscape. […]
Watch the Talk: Sustaining STEM Students Across Academic Pathways
Academic pipeline programs have created safe spaces for women, minorities and persons with disabilities to receive training in STEM disciplines for several […]
Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, 1920-2021: Pioneer in Social Indicators Movement
Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, a pioneer in the use of social indicators as an important tool of social science, died on May 8 at the age of 101.
Ronald Inglehart, 1934-2021: Founder of the World Values Survey
Ron Inglehart, a political scientist whose work on surveying values around the world set new and higher bars on what such studies could achieve, has died at age 86.
National Academies Seeks Experts to Assess 2020 U.S. Census
The National Academies’ Committee on National Statistics seeks nominations for members of an ad hoc consensus study panel — sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau — to review and evaluate the quality of the 2020 Census.
