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 […]
My Social Science Career: Interview with Linda Putnam
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, Linda Putnam, Chair of the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, spoke to socialsciencespace about her career.
The Invisible Children in the Seminar Room: Kony 2012 and digital activism.
Since its earliest days there has been a great deal of writing about online activism and the possibility of forming active publics via the Internet.
The Guardian’s Simon Jenkins is completely wrong.
A response to Sir Simon Jenkins’ article on the value of public universities.
Working Moms: The Kids Are All Right
Working mothers tend to be happier and healthier than mothers who stay at home caring for young children, according to recent research. But many of those who work are often haunted by the question: “Am I screwing up my kids?”
Managing Expectations
Why do some people hide their light under a bushel while others promise more than they can deliver? In the latest edition of the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Dr René Lindstädt (University of Essex) and Dr Jeffrey Staton (Emory University, USA) have developed a theory to explain the phenomenon.
Social Science is Changing how to view Policing
Social Science research is changing our understanding of the police and policing. This is raising fundamental questions about how police officers are recruited, trained and organised
Satan at work in the university…?
How an unholy alliance of arrogant scientists and self-interested federal bureaucrats came to widen the net of ethical regulation intended to deal with abuses in medical research to empirical investigation in the humanities and social sciences.
Help Black Children? Sure! Teens? Not So Much.
New research finds support for school projects differs according to the race and age of the recipients.
