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 […]
ALISS Recommends: Useful Resources for Training and Student Inductions.
Are you trying to cope with 100s of student induction sessions? Looking for inspiration in designing training courses? Here are some recommended […]
What to consider when crafting your online identity
The question of what value social media, particularly blogging, holds in academia is ongoing and at times controversial. This is well illustrated […]
Stirling vs Philip Morris: A car-crash for social science?
A busy summer means the blog can be overtaken by events. I had intended to write on 11 July about the threat […]
Circles of Support & Accountability: A Canadian National Replication of Outcome Findings
Robin J. Wilson, Franca Cortoni, and Andrew J. McWhinnie, co-authored “Circles of Support & Accountability: A Canadian National Replication of Outcome Findings,” […]
Research ethics and the ‘News of the World’
I was going to write about last week’s decision by the UK Information Commissioner to force the University of East Anglia to […]
My social science career: Interview with Russell Schutt
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, Russell Schutt talks to socialsciencespace about how he became interested […]
Students as consumers – the impact of individual choice
The higher education White Paper published this week by the UK government (‘Students at the heart of the system’) will, according to […]
‘Dismantling excellence, reducing quality, and increasing costs for students’
The Campaign for the Public University has posted a response to the UK Government’s White Paper on higher education, arguing that the […]
