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 […]
Crafting the Best DEI Policies: Include Everyone and Include Evidence
Organizations shouldn’t back away from workplace DEI efforts. Rather, the research suggests, they should double down, using a more inclusive approach that emphasizes civility and dialogue – one aimed at finding common ground.
The Public’s Statistics Should Serve, Well, the Public
Paul Allin sets out why the UK’s Royal Statistical Society is launching a new campaign for public statistics.
Why, and How, We Must Contest ‘Development’
Why is contestation a better starting point for studying and researching development than ‘everyone wants the same thing’?
The Long Arm of Criminality
David Canter considers the daily reminders of details of our actions that have been caused by criminality.
Why Don’t Algorithms Agree With Each Other?
David Canter reviews his experience of filling in automated forms online for the same thing but getting very different answers, revealing the value systems built into these supposedly neutral processes.
A Black History Addendum to the American Music Industry
The new editor of the case study series on the music industry discusses the history of Black Americans in the recording industry.
When University Decolonization in Canada Mends Relationships with Indigenous Nations and Lands
Community-based work and building and maintaining relationships with nations whose land we live upon is at the heart of what Indigenizing is. It is not simply hiring more faculty, or putting the titles “decolonizing” and “Indigenizing” on anything that might connect to Indigenous peoples.
Kohrra on Netflix – Policing and Everyday Life in Contemporary India
Even Social Science Space bloggers occasionally have downtime when they log in to Netflix and crash out. One of my favourite themes […]
