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 […]
Developing Engaging Street Theatre from Interview Materials
This blog post builds on the introduction to spatially-led video interviews. This article outlines the process of taking such digital material and working with writers, dramatists and performers to develop site-specific theatre. Over two workshop days we worked through ways to represent how everyday life changed during the 1960s in Newport, a city in Wales.
Gerd Gigerenzer on Decision Making
Quite often the ideas of ‘risk’ and of ‘uncertainty’ get bandied about interchangeably, but there’s a world of difference between them. That’s a key message from psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer.
How Do Amazingly Effective Teams Emerge?
What if we were able to predict which teams are capable of amazing levels of effectiveness even before they’ve had enough time to generate measurable performance?
Boost Member Engagement and Strengthen Your Organization’s Identity with Organizational Hashtags
How might social media strengthen organizational bonds? Stephanie Dailey takes a look at hashtags can foster member identification.
Special Collection on ‘Civic Life of Cities’ Puts Civil Society Organizations in Their Place
A multi-place research project in six cities worldwide in the journal ‘Global Perspectives’ brings a new angle to a examination of the civic life of cities.
Using Video to Facilitate and Record Spatially-Led Interviews
In this first of a series of three blog posts, geographer Aled Singleton reflects on his research experience of taking the very naturalistic and low-tech concept of walking conversations and outdoor events into a digital form.
How We Talk About Entrepreneurship Inhibits Women’s Entrepreneurship
Society, the authors, find, suppresses women’s entrepreneurship just by the way it talks about entrepreneurs.
Funking Up the Domain: How Outliers Skew Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
We know that one outlier has the potential to influence the size and direction of effects, the significance of hypothesized relationships, and significantly alter the results of published works, but what happens when there are dozens of outliers in a sample?
