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 […]
How British Literary Psychogeography Offers Possibilities for Researchers
In the previous blog we learned about the type of psychogeographical thinking which was developed by Guy Debord and Situationist International. The latter movement was centered on France and mainland Europe in the immediate decades after World War II. Ultimately they failed to get their message through to wider society. In this article I explore how their basic principles re-emerged as a new form of psychogeography in the British Isles. This form would be less political than the work of Debord, at least on the surface, and would be championed by poets, writers of historical fiction and other forms of literature.
Social Science Can Reduce Firearm-Related Injuries
Every day across the United States, more than 120 people die from firearm injuries. This is a crisis that requires urgent attention from the scientific community, and social scientists have a critical role to play.
Big Think Podcast Series Launched by Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences has launched the Big Thinking Podcast, a show series that features leading researchers in the humanities and social sciences in conversation about the most important and interesting issues of our time.
Mapping the Ebb and Flow of Psychogeography
In this series Aled Singleton explore the ebb and flow of geographical ideas, particularly how they move around the world. As with all innovations, concepts sometimes lose traction over time, seem to get buried in dusty libraries and then fins themselves revived for unexpected reasons. The topic for this series is the concept psychogeography. We will travel from Paris in the 1960s to the UK in the 1990s and then to the wider World in the 2020s.
Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap
Harvard University economic historian Claudia Goldin studies the origins, causes and persistence of the gender pay gap in the United States, which she discusses in this Social Science Bites podcast.
Watch the Video: What’s Next for #AcademicTwitter?
In a video interview hosted by Social Science Space sister site Methodspace, Stu Shulman, a social media researcher and the founder and CEO of Textifter, joined interviewer Janet Salmons to discuss the future of academic Twitter.
Watch the Video – Re-thinking the Therapeutic: Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture
Therapeutic culture plays a central role in societies around the world. From self-help books to mental well-being workshops to conversations about the […]
The Future of Academic Twitter After Elon Musk
After much speculation, Twitter has been acquired by Elon Musk. In this post, Mark Carrigan asks, if now is the time to rethink academic twitter by separating out the knowledge exchange and academic community building functions that have up to this point taken place side by side on Twitter.
