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 […]
Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight
Trained as a social psychologist, Leiden University social psychologist Carsten de Dreu uses behavioral science, history, economics, archaeology, primatology and biology, among other disciplines to study the basis of conflict and cooperation among humans.
Report: Latest Academic Freedom Index Sees Global Declines
The latest update of the global Academic Freedom Index finds improvements in only five countries
Watch! Methodspace Roundtables Examine Threats To Intellectual And Academic Freedom
Janet Salmons, the research community director of our sister site, Sage Methodspace, coordinated a series of research roundtables to discuss the obstacles facing academic freedom and how to navigate them.
‘People Are Going to Seek the Things That Are Kept From Them’: An Interview with Danian Darrell Jerry
Danian Darrell Jerry is the co-editor, with Walter Greason, of a just-released book, Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of ‘Critical Race Theory’. […]
Pandemic London – and the Future of Publishing?
Robert Dingwall discusses the book Breakable, which details the experiences of Sue Julians and her family in lockdown London
Attacking Wicked Problems with Hip-Hop: An Interview with Walter Greason
Social Science Space caught up with Walter Greason to discuss hisjourneys, the new book ‘Illmatic Consequences’ he co-edited with Danian Darrell Jerry’, and the current political upheaval circling around the term ‘critical race theory.’
Bear Braumoeller, 1968-2023: Prescient Observer of the International Order
Bear Braumoeller, a political scientist and computational social scientist whose work on international conflict in today’s world seemed especially prescient after Russia’s war on Ukraine, has died
Shinobu Kitayama on Cultural Differences in Psychology
Psychologist Shinobu Kitayama explores the cultural differences between Asia and America, the possible origins of those differences, and how the brain and body may reflect those differences.
