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 […]
In front of one’s nose
With the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, many prominent public figures declared that America had “entered a ‘post-racial’ era.” But as sociologists Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David Dietrich argue, “racial oppression is still systematic in America.”
“The immaterial global village”: debunking myths of the internet
In “The Place of the Internet in Anthropology” (in the March 2011 issue of Anthropology News), UCLA PhD student Adam Fish addresses the […]
American medical colleges propose greater focus on social sciences
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has proposed a number of reforms to the MCAT – the standardized test taken by […]
Breaking silences on broken promises
At a recent seminar of the Campaign for the Public University, someone raised what is an increasingly pressing question. Why aren’t more […]
Public letter from academics on AHRC decision to promote Big Society research
188 academics, mainly from the UK, have signed a letter published in today’s Observer newspaper, on the decision by the Arts and […]
For Sociology, for the Public University… Join the Debate!
A blogpost on the BSA's blog 'Sociology and the Cuts' by John Holmwood sets out the potential c viagra purchase onsequences of […]
When did the Big Society turn into Big Brother?
A column by Tom Sutcliffe in today’s Independent addresses the question of academic freedom posed by reports that the Arts and Humanities […]
Time to concentrate?
UK Government and research funding agencies are pursuing a strategy of focusing and concentrating the funding of social science research into a […]
