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 […]
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Many PhD graduates are forced into the troubled world of unemployment while, at the same time, being denied a public voice. How is it that extremely narrow standards of professional legitimacy are used to judge young scholars who simply cannot meet them?
Digital Social Science Vs Digital Humanities: Who does what & does it matter?
In an era where Social Science is being asked to prove its relevance the development of a broad Digital research agenda could, in my opinion, should be the way forward.
Does the framing of the social sciences in the media put social science ECRs at a disadvantage?
What does the negativity around social science mean for ECRS? I have often wondered about the numbers of social science ECRs and their job prospects in comparison with those graduating in the natural sciences. Does it make it harder for us to find employment? Do the natural sciences have an advantage?
What are the prospects for global sociology?
For there to be some sort of global sociology there would need to a recognition of socio-culturally disparate forms of knowledge and institutional settings.
Research Integrity in the UK – the Spawn of Satan?
A document drops into my inbox that purports to be a draft Concordat between the major UK funders and university managements on research integrity – a publication that has already been set for July 2012, but someone belatedly thought that it might be a good idea to get disciplinary associations on board.
