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 […]
Sir Cliff Richard, the BBC and the Ethics of Interviewing
The recent brouhaha involving the BBC and the singer points out something the journalists and qualitative researchers share: the need to develop a common approach to the ethics of interviewing.
Research Value Needs the Help of Social Sciences
Rachel and Lisa explore how humanities, arts and social sciences expertise is applied to problems typically corralled into the science and technology space.
Grants Offered Computational Social Science Software Developers
A grant program that provides early stage funding for innovative software ideas that support social science researchers working with big data and new technology is now accepting applications.
Why and How to Conduct a Literature Review
“Why you or other researchers need a literature review is rarely discussed, or when it is, it is quickly glossed over. With […]
Skip Lupia to Head NSF’s Social Science Directorate
Noted science communicator and political scientist Arthur ‘Skip’ Lupia will take the reins of the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences starting in September.
SSRC Adds Richeson, Nobles to Board
The Social Science Research Council has added Melissa Nobles and Jennifer Richeson to its board of directors. Nobles is the Kenan Sahin Dean […]
The Conscience of the Racially Conscious: Ambalavener Sivanandan, 1923-2018
Ambalavener Sivanandan, a former bank manager and then librarian who became an award-winning novelist and one of Britain’s foremost political thinkers on race, will be honored this Saturday at London’s Red Lion Square.
ESRC 2018 Impact Prizes Range from Sex to Slavery
Researchers whose work has made a real difference to society or the economy, ranging from detailing the true numbers of modern slavery to transforming how we teach about sexuality, were celebrated at the ESRC’s sixth annual Impact Prize awards ceremony at the Royal Society on today.
