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 […]
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 […]
The Marketplace of Perceptions: Behavioral economics explains why we procrastinate, buy, borrow, and grab chocolate on the spur of the moment
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. Like all revolutions in thought, this one began with anomalies, […]
Ethics of research with young children
When we involve young children in our research, there are the usual things we well know that we must attend to – […]
Deep value
‘Public service reform’ was a key theme of New Labour, and with widespread cuts to public services from the Coalition’s spending review […]
SAGE and the British Academy: the Crucial Role of Social Science
A debate held in London on 16th March 2010 as part of the ESRC festival of social science. Co-hosted by SAGE and […]
