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 […]
Coming Out in eSports: The Price Paid by Soldier 76
Footballer Jake Daniels’ coming out leads us to ask – would other sports, like eSports, be more welcoming of a figure being gay?
Indigenous Societies and the True Value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Recent studies have underscored that conservationists can learn a lot from traditional ecological knowledge about successful resource management.
The Boon and Bane of Blockchain
Successful blockchain managers have a thorough understanding of the network structures for which blockchains are used, choose the appropriate governance mode, and adapt it dynamically to changes in the network structure.
Comparing Priorities for Mental Health Research with Fostering Well-Being
Wouter van de Klippe, Alfredo Yegros, Tim Willemse and Ismael Rafols discuss their mixed methods research into prioritization in mental health research, using expert focus groups and bibliometric data to explore how perceptions of where the field should be heading, differ from current research priorities and how different countries have developed different research priorities in this area.
Comparing Felt Responsibility for Ethical Purchasing in Professional and Personal Roles
Liz Cooper explains the motivation behind the paper she co-wrote with Ben Marder, “Role morality discrepancy and ethical purchasing: exploring felt responsibility […]
Looking Inside Military Generals’ Charisma: The Workings of Top-Leaders’ Squires
There is a third type of actor in the leader-follower power construct, suggests Michael Sang.
Explaining Why Men Kill Women Is a Harder Question Than Many Think
The author warns that policies intended to prevent intimate partner femicide should not become narrowly focused around gendered factors such as men’s attitudes to women and toxic masculinity.
When Ignorance is Reassuring
David Canter considers the strange phenomena of Russians believing Putin’s propaganda.
