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 […]
What Does an Anthropologist Actually Do?
Anthropologists use ethnographic methods designed to facilitate their competency in another culture to understand what people do, think, feel and say that might seem strange to an outsider but are completely familiar to an insider. But what does that mean in practice?
Sharon Witherspoon Joins AcSS as Policy Chief
Sharon Witherspoon, the former director of the Nuffield Foundation and a guiding light of the Q-Step initiative, has been named the acting […]
Posts on Radicalization, Slavery Win Duckies
A blog post arguing that treating all Muslims as threats plays into the hands of ISIS and another showing a time lapse […]
Statistical Association Takes on Use, Abuse of P-values
Even as it insists it’s not really saying anything new, the American Statistical Association Board of Directors has laid down a marker in the debate over what constitutes “statistical significance.”
Academics Urged to Flip Their Academic Writing
The most frequent advice from Kip Jones to participants was, “Flip it!” Er, make that, “Flip it!” –Kip Jones’ most frequent workshop advice.
I Have a Journal Article. How Do I Write a Blog Post About it?
If you can really do communication in an accessible way, explains Patrick Dunleavy, your writing may also circulate widely in other disciplines and in the external world outside universities, enhancing your reputation there. And you are in luck – he also explains one way to do that.
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Ian Quigg
In the final installment of the 10 top essays submitted to the ESRC reflecting on how a social science-influenced world will look in 2015, we present Ian Quigg’s ruminations on what capitalism will look like after another half century’s buffeting by the ‘perennial gale of creative destruction.’
Strategic Contracting and Negotiation Journal Seeks Top Paper
The Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, which launched last year as the official journal of the International Association for Contract and Commercial […]
