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 […]
AAU Explains Why the U.S. Federal Government Funds Social and Behavioral Sciences Research
Once again, the American Association of Universities has come out to publicly support social and behavioral research funding. As a follow up to […]
The Science of Science Communication
The National Academy of Sciences hosted the second Arthur M. Sackler colloquium on the topic of the science of science communication, from […]
Eradicating Acute Poverty via UN Human Rights Machinery
How do we continue to move towards a human rights culture?
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
AAU Protests Efforts to Cut Federal Funds for Social Science Inside Higher Ed $200,000 Funding Available for Behavioral and Social Science Research […]
Social Sciences Need a Collective Voice
Social science may be faring better politically in UK than US, says Ziyad Marar, but let’s avoid complacency at all costs
The Rule of Optimism – Thirty Years On
Not many social scientists introduce a phrase into the English language and its subsequent history is instructive about the ways in which the impact of successful sociology becomes invisible. It is also a nice example of how ideas become assimilated into a societal environment that finds it hard to accept the sociologist’s focus on systems and organizations.
Statement by AAU on Support for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
We are pleased to report that this statement came out just today from the American Association of Universities: […]
De profundis
At the moment, some universities do seem to be very happy with quite a lot of inequality. Apparently, universities are even more likely than other employers to make extensive use of zero-hour contracts. This coincides in a striking manner with reports about a growing elitism in British academia.
