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 […]
What should an Early-Career Research Agenda Look Like?
How to approach the years beyond the PhD. Some thoughts on alignment, coherence, breadth, and depth.
Much Ado about Conflict?
There is increasing agreement that the world is warming and that there is a significant man-made contribution. But uncertainty continues about many of the physical consequences of climate change and even more so about the social effects.
The Campaign for Eddie Gilfoyle’s Murder Conviction to be Squashed
The ability of people to keep their most desperate, innermost thoughts hidden from those around them is surely something that juries ought to be reminded of in cases where a death could be suicide or murder…
My Social Science Career: Interview with Sandra Ball-Rokeach
I’m a sociologist and my primary role at this stage of my career is championing theory-driven research, but also research that you put into action: I’m not just a theorist, or just a researcher, or just an action-person – rather I’m trying to link all of those together.
Analyzing Culture with Google Books: Is It Social Science?
In a recent opinion piece in Miller-McCune Magazine, Anita Guerrini argues that discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 […]
TAKING CRAP TO COURT
The ponderousness, and consequent unnecessary expense, of many legal processes was brought home to me yet again with my recent appearance as […]
Is UK academic social science following a work model others already discarding?
Article by LSE Economist, Danny Quah Mark Thoma‘s thoughtful article “New Forms of Communication and the Public Mission of Economics: Overcoming the […]
Social Science in an Emergency: An Interview with Andrew Miller MP
In 2011 the Science and Technology Select Committee published the report Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies, examining the role of science […]
