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 […]
Critical thinker explains skepticism vs. cynicism
D.J. Grothe explores the difference between skepticism and cynicism in an interview with Peter M. Nardi in Miller McCune magazine, and describes […]
What’s happened to sabbatical leave for academics?
This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Tamson Pietsch In 1931 Arthur Currie, the principal of McGill […]
The new language of sociology: teaching-and-learning
Institutionalised sociology begins in the classroom. The classroom is the principal site in which sociologists communicate with non-sociologists or – idealistically – future sociologists about the ethos and knowledge of the discipline.
The glum future of the American liberal arts college
In a recent article for Miller-McCune Magazine, “‘Wither’ The Liberal Arts College?”, English professor Anne Trubek discusses the troubled state of American liberal […]
My social science career: Interview with Sonia Livingstone
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, socialsciencespace talks to Sonia Livingstone, Professor in Media and Communications […]
Duncan queries logic of UK Government research cuts
Social Policy Association (SPA) President and former Chief Government Social Researcher Sue Duncan has warned that the UK government risks sacrificing a […]
‘Rick Perry’s anti-science America’
Paul Stoller considers the implications of ‘anti-science’ political candidates being elected to high office in the US and the likely impact on […]
‘In defence of public higher education’
An ‘alternative white paper’ has been published this week in the UK setting out an alternative to the Government’s proposed reforms to […]
