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 […]
Social Science in an Emergency: An Interview with Andrew Miller MP
In 2011 the Science and Technology Select Committee published the report Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies, examining the role of science […]
The new language of sociology: Teaching and Learning, part 2
“Its a well known fact you are not respected by your work collogues and in general just a vile rude obnoxious person.” […]
My social science career: Interview with Elinor Ostrom
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, Elinor Ostrom spoke to socialsciencespace. In 2009, she became the […]
The SRA annual conference
The SRA are holding their annual conference this year at the British Library on December 6th. To find out more information and […]
“The awkward guest at the dinner party”
The ninth annual Festival of Social Science took place last week in the UK, organised by the Economic and Social Research Council […]
The new language of sociology: ‘Line manager’
At some point during the past decade, the line managers began to arrive. Many sociology departments lost their ‘heads’, who then re-appeared […]
Making the Case for the Social Sciences Issue 5 – Sport and Leisure
With the Olympic and Paralympic Games piquing the public’s interest in sport, the publication of Making the Case for the Social Sciences: […]
