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 […]
The Big Society – or back to little societies?
Suddenly the Big Society appears to be unravelling. First we have the Government’s champion of voluntarism, Lord Wei, announcing that he had […]
What are the needs of the policy process?
Reposted from Methodspace: a summary of the NatCen Informing Public Policy New Agendas for Social Research Conference (23-24 April 2009) Abstract: From […]
Ethical Challenges at a Particular Point in Time
Science does not take place in a state of total objectivity: instead it reflects a range of values that have become embedded […]
Academy in today’s Guardian: Social scientists explain many things – but can they explain themselves?
In the Guardian today, the Academy of Social Sciences’ public engagement officer, Kate Roach, takes on Nick Cohen’s point on social science […]
Does the way social scientists write stop them being heard?
The commentator Nick Cohen argues in an article this week that many academics – specifically in social sciences and humanities – are unable to write clearly […]
The arts and cultural sector faces ‘apocalyptic’ cuts in austere Britain. But new ways of looking at economic value can help to make the case for culture
In the government’s programme of cuts it has become clear that the arts may well be hit the hardest. While historically it […]
Why We Have Launched Social Science Space
Over the last year SAGE has devoted time and energy to celebrating the social sciences. We have done so by convening a […]
Who is influencing public policy and why?
Reposted from Methodspace: a summary of the NatCen Informing Public Policy New Agendas for Social Research Conference (23-24 April 2009) Chair: George […]
