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 […]
To build a successful academic career, you need to play by the rules.
So what exactly are the rules by which academic careers work? Where does one learn them? How does one learn them? And how, exactly, is playing by the rules to the benefit of one’s career?
Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?
This is not a body of work that instructs us what to think – it invites us to ask the question that an ethnographer would ask: confronted with this scene, what is going on here?
Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research
“The social scientists we could do business with were those who grounded their ideas through field studies, cultural probes and social data”.
How can textbooks further student engagement?
All criticism of the genre notwithstanding, textbooks do have a central role to play in turning sociology students into sociologists. Sometimes I do wonder, however, whether it is time to re-invent the textbook.
The Formula
How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.
Campaign for Social Science to hold latest roadshows
The Campaign for Social Science will hold its latest roadshows at London Metropolitan University on 20 February and at the University of Exeter on 1 March.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Why “social science needs to get its act together,” social science insights into depression and more in this week in Social Science News
Numerical indigestion: how much data is really good for us?
We are swimming in ‘big data’ and despite their performances as advocates of data freedom, policymakers don’t seem to bear any responsibility for educating the public on how to read it.
