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 […]
Research Ethics and James Bond
It is not often, as a middle aged academic, that I get to feel like James Bond – but there is something about […]
Review of ‘Four Lions’
An edited version of this article originally appeared in the Islamic Studies magazine ‘Perspectives’ (November 2010). Chris Morris’s feature-length satire about five […]
Toasting Government’s Good Ideas from 2010
Extract from an article by Emily Badger in the current issue of Miller-McCune magazine. Despite the past year’s bitter politics, the US […]
Making the Case for the Social Sciences no.2: Ageing
As ‘STEM’ started to become shorthand for ‘the only sort of research work that is of importance to our economy’, and the […]
A Fiscal Black Box
I’m not sure if it was sensible to agree to join the blogosphere with an initial contribution on University Finance? It is […]
Using research to improve policing: an interview with Professor Betsy Stanko of the Metropolitan Police
Taking social science research beyond academia and using evidence to guide public policy is one of the biggest challenges social scientists face. Professor Betsy Stanko is […]
Interview with Richard Bartholomew – Joint head of the Government Social Research Service
It is important that government policy is supported by the best evidence possible, and this is as true in the area of […]
Making the case no.1: Wellbeing
Download a copy of this report from the Academy of Social Sciences Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by […]
