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 […]
8 Ways Universities Can Improve Online Learning During COVID-19
This summer, universities around the world planned for an unprecedented back-to-school in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In most universities, centers of […]
A New, Technological ‘Normal’ in the Wake of COVID-19 and Online University
COVID-19 continues to shape the structure and direction of universities, but can this reframing offer a valid experience for their students and prove that the university experience today is still worthwhile? What can students, faculty, staff and university systems do online now that will ultimately benefit and expand upon what they do on campus later?
What Does It Mean If the Public is Decent at Predicting Replication?
With replication – and concerns about the lack of it – occupying much of the discussion about social and behavioral research, efforts […]
How Dangerous is Donald Trump?
Internationally renowned applied social researcher David Canter reviews the debate around the president’s personality.
What Research Says About Voting by Mail (Spoiler: It’s Safe)
Evidence reviewed by a National Association of Public Administration working group finds that voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud, does not give an advantage to one political party over another and can in fact inspire public confidence in the voting process, if done properly.
The Case For Democracy In The Covid 19 Pandemic
The author of a new book on the response to the coronavirus tries first to understand how apparently sane people could think it made sense to implement damaging policies, and secondly asks how the public might ensure that such a disastrous episode can never happen again.
Seminar Links Social and Behavioral Insights on COVID with Policy
On October 9, a free online symposium will bring together social and behavioral science researchers in the United States whose work can inform public policies related to the pandemic with policymakers and public servants who are crafting and enacting legislation and other responses to COVID-19.
Innovating Service Design Meant Adding Value at the End of Life
Figuring out how to do service research with a very special population – but one we will all be part of eventually — was a challenge met by the creators of Trajectory Touchpoint Technique.
