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 […]
Are Facebook, Twitter, fostering civic engagement?
Emily Badger writes in Miller-McCune Magazine about the link between social media and civic engagement. Since the first days of the Arab […]
Students as consumers – the impact of individual choice
The higher education White Paper published this week by the UK government (‘Students at the heart of the system’) will, according to […]
Making the Case for the Social Sciences no.4: Crime
The Academy of Social Sciences held the launch of the fourth ‘Making the Case for the Social Sciences’ booklet, this time focussed […]
‘Dismantling excellence, reducing quality, and increasing costs for students’
The Campaign for the Public University has posted a response to the UK Government’s White Paper on higher education, arguing that the […]
New report on government commissioning of social research
A UK study into government commissioning of social research has concluded that any of the three procurement methods currently used can be […]
‘Humanities and social sciences are vital to US competitiveness, says Academy of Arts and Sciences commission’
A group of prominent leaders from business, government and universities has concluded that the humanities and social sciences are crucial to the […]
British psychology “unsurpassed” – but limited funding for research threatens position, says international study
News release from the Campaign for Social Science Tuesday 21 June 2011 British psychology “unsurpassed” – but limited funding for research threatens […]
Inequality, power and privilege in the struggle for the humanities
Much ink has already been spilled to condemn and defend the establishment of the New College of the Humanities (NCH), announced earlier […]
