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 […]
Stuck-in-the-Middle Venturing Strategies Can Hurt You and Your Customers
Simon Hensellek of the Technical University of Dortmund discusses “Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls,” which he, David Bendig, and Julian Schulte published in Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice.
Watch the Talk: Insights on the Holocaust from Social Science
Political scientist Jeffrey Kopstein outlines some of the evolutions in social science that are allowing scholars to study the Holocaust and its current impacts.
Volume Examines the New Social Science of the Holocaust
We live in a culture profoundly influenced by the legacy of the Holocaust. More than seven decades after the fact, the Nazi extermination […]
Rethinking Organizational Crisis Management: How Financial Insecurity Inhibits Ethical Leadership
In a new paper, the authors write that financial insecurity triggers anxiety in supervisors, which inhibits their demonstration of ethical leadership.
Can Research Be Both Impactful and Neutral?
As researchers in growing numbers subscribe to movements, Giuseppe Delmestri argues that researchers have a duty to take positions that align with their work, rather than hide behind claims to value-neutrality.
Psychogeography Becomes More Accessible — and Goes Online
In the previous two blog posts I have reflected on the space(s) within social science for psychogeographical thinking. During the 1950s and […]
Are Trigger Warnings Hitting Their Target?
Given the prevalence of trigger warnings, there is little consensus on the extent to which they are, in fact, an effective strategy for reducing the risk of trauma exposure, vicarious trauma, and re-traumatization.
Academic Publishers and the Challenges of AI
The role of AI in the production of research papers is rapidly moving from being a futuristic vision, towards an everyday reality; a situation with significant consequences for research integrity and the detection of fraudulent research. Rebecca Lawrence and Sabina Alam argue that for publishers, collaboration and open research workflows are key to ensuring the reliability of the scholarly record.
