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 […]
Why is Interdisciplinary Research on Race and Racism So Important?
Intersectional problems require interdisciplinary thinking. So when we think about race and racism, it might be worth asking – what are we not seeing by limiting ourselves to a single discipline?
NSF Seeks Social and Behavioral Proposals on Future of Work
The NSF asked researchers across the social, behavioral and economic sciences are encouraged to submit proposals to the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research solicitation by March 23
What I Have Learned from Social Science
Ziyad Marar, Sage’s president of global publishing, reflects on how his career and his studies of psychology, linguistics and philosophy leave him thinking a social science imagination benefits us as individuals and improves society more generally, especially in times of upheaval and reconfiguration.
Take Our Survey on Anti-Racist Research in the Social Sciences
This year has exposed a lot of glaring flaws in how modern society functions, not least of which its relationship with race […]
Doing Collaborative Research
In the previous post Mathew Flinders identified the ways in which collaborative research touches the emotions of academics and places different kinds of demands […]
A Defense of Collaborative Research
The simple fact is that deep, embedded, collaborative research whereby researchers work hand-in-hand with community participants in order to reveal new perspectives […]
How Behavioral Sciences Could Help More With COVID-19
Countries across the world have been turning to behavioral science in the fight against coronavirus. In May, The New Scientist proclaimed that ‘behavioral science is […]
How COVID-19 is Changing the World: Views from Monash University
This article, first published in the Monash Lens at Monash University, gathers input from a cross-disciplinary group of social and behavioral scientists and members of the humanities faculty at the Australian university.
