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 […]
Steps To Effectively Conduct Interdisciplinary Research
Reflecting on their work on the recent BIAS project, the authors traced some of the challenges we faced carrying out interdisciplinary research and the strategies we developed to mitigate them.
Five Key Moments in the Struggle for Trans Rights
Just as trans people are not a new population, backlashes against trans rights have a long history.
Looking Back at 2022 on Social Science Space
As is the wont of many media websites, with the end of the year here at Social Science Space, we like to look back at the year-that-was as the-year-that-is-to-be looms.
Yi-Fu Tuan, 1930-2022: The Father of Humanistic Geography
Yi-Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus of geography, died August 10 at the age of 91.
Statistics on Hispanic Population Obscured by Census Data
When the fixed categories of a census erase the diversity of a population, the gross miscalculations that result may harm a country’s ability to appropriately respond to the needs of its people.
Destructive Leadership and Interdisciplinary Research: Amusing or Bemusing?
Jeremy Mackey, an associate professor of management at Auburn University, discusses the importance of interdisciplinary research and answers questions about the paper, “Musing about Interdisciplinary Research: Is Interdisciplinary Research Amusing or Bemusing?”
What Do We Know About Entrepreneurship and Peace? And What Do We Need to Find Out?
As violent conflicts become both more pervasive and more localized, a better understanding of how entrepreneurship and peace interact in conflict zones will prove most useful.
Pathways to Foster Employee Engagement Towards Sustainability
How can organizations get their members to engage in sustainability practices? The authors outlines several mechanisms.
