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 […]
Development of K-12 Behavioral and Social Science Education
The National Academies of Sciences will be hosting a planning meeting in the Fall of 2011 to look at the feasibility of developing a framework for elementary and secondary […]
Bringing social science into the light of day
Launch of the Campaign for Social Science on 20 January 2011 – introductory remarks by Professor Cary Cooper, Chair of AcSS “The Campaign for Social Science […]
Ideas and analysis – what politicians want from social scientists
Interview with Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Science & Policy. Kelvin Hopkins is MP for Luton North and Chair of […]
‘Why Nick Clegg needs a degree in sociology’
Les Back explains in a blog on BSA’s ‘Sociology and the Cuts’ why an understanding of sociology would help senior politici buy […]
What happened to theory in the 21st century?
The last two decades have brought to psychology a renewed attempt to integrate both new forms of cognition (embodied, distributed cognition) as […]
Reform of English laws on free speech
The British government has confirmed that it will introduce a Defamation Bill in the spring, to change the law on libel and […]
Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, […]
The value of history to public policy
Statements such as ‘knowing about history helps us to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past’ are commonplace. There is no doubt […]
