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’s Wrong with WeChat? The Problem with Social Media Censorship
What is WeChat, and what does it do? Apart from ethnically suspect attacks on the platform itself, its ability to socially engineer discussion in China is a genuine concern.
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.
Jennifer Richeson to Receive SAGE-CASBS Award; Lecture on April 21
Yale University social psychologist Jennifer Richeson, whose research into intergroup interactions has created a much deeper understanding of inequality and racism in the United States, will receive the 2020 SAGE-CASBS Award.
This Moment, And the Next Steps for Social Change
Dr. Patricia Reid-Merritt, professor of Africana Studies and Social Work at Stockton University, considers the history of the Civil Rights Movement in conjunction with today’s Black Lives Matter. In this essay, she offers Americans struggling for liberation and Black freedom a four-step plan for social change.
Excerpt from ‘What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It’
Alvaro de Menard, which we accept as the nom de blog of a non-academic “independent researcher of dubious nature” and who is […]
New Report: The Social Sciences are Vital for Business
The Campaign for Social Science’s new report, Vital Business: The Essential Role of Social Sciences in the UK Private Sector, argues that social science knowledge and expertise are key to understanding market opportunities and constraints and also helps in understanding current and future consumer behaviors.
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 […]
