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 […]
Social science – moving society forward
It is vital not to overlook the need for social science work in supporting other advances in our society and the wider […]
Interdisciplinarity: On Social Business
By definition a discipline is “a branch of knowledge, typically studied in higher education” (Oxford). Concentration on a discipline invariably results in […]
The changing nature of scholarly communication
Slides from the ALISS summer conference: Changing nature of scholarly communication The changing nature of scholarly communication. What does this mean for […]
Solving the Social Sciences’ Hard Problems
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. Across all the disciplines of the social sciences—economics, history, anthropology, political […]
Making the Case For the Social Sciences no.1: Wellbeing
Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by the Academy of Social Sciences, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research […]
Recognising Psychology as a STEM Discipline
Psychology is not just a science in its own right, but makes important direct and indirect contributions to other Science, Technology, Engineering, […]
Working with the Life Sciences; “Whose aspirations? Whose achievements?”
The life sciences have made major contributions to our knowledge and understanding, but utilising that knowledge for maximum benefit often requires different […]
Risk, ethics and public sensitivities: LSE TLSS Series
This podcast was recorded by the LSE as part of their series, Thinking like a Social Scientist. Risk, ethics and public sensitivities […]
