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 […]
The Papers That Could Change Politics in the Coming Years
A review of new material presented at the Midwest Political Science Association’s annual conference in Chicago.
Congress, Business & Advocates Need Good Data; Why Survey Response Rates are Falling
A Congressional briefing in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center: Legislators, advocates and businesses depend on data to do their work. Much of […]
Social science sites of the week
In the news this week. The Funeral of Baroness Thatcher. Full version still available to download on BBC iplayer. until 24th April. […]
The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity
The controversy over BBC journalists’ use of a student tour group linked to the London School of Economics should not be allowed to go away quietly.
Please – Not a Heroic Impact Narrative
Recently I’ve seen a lot of hero/heroine narratives. They now seem to be popping up in research impact plans and claims about impact.
What Is the Value of Social Science?
Ziyad Marar argues that greater funding of the social sciences is needed, not less
Modernizing Universities?
Universities are starting to look like the behemoths of the US auto industry of the 1980s, with highly-paid CEOs buried in their offices looking only at numbers.
Outlawed Research
Congress just cut funding for political science because they don’t understand the good it does. Here are four excellent examples.
