Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Timeline of US Government and Social/Behavioral Science
Vannevar Bush’s post-war review of American science priorities set the tone for the federal funding of social and behavioral science ever since.
Omnibus US Funding Bill Smiles on Social Science
UPDATED with COSSA analysis: Social and behavioral science funded by the U.S. government appears to have received an early Christmas present as leaders in the House of Representatives unveiled a $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep the federal enterprise funded in 2016.
SBE Draws Three Flags in Football-Themed Waste Report
Picking up where Tom Coburn left off, the new U.S. senator from Oklahoma has released a punny compendium of what he sees as wasteful federal spending , including the inevitable shots at social and behavioral science grants.
Social Science Surveys Need to Be Ingenious in Finding Funding
In these days of declining federal budgets for statistical agencies and for research, a place like the Ohio State University’s Center for Human Resources Research, has to explore all funding options to maintain its formidable work.
Spending Review: Research Ringfence Holds, But Doesn’t Expand
The Comprehensive Spending Review released today does protect the UK’s government-funded research budget as promised, but the research community sees lots of ways that the future on innovation could have been brighter and more robust.
James Wilsdon on the 2015 Spending Review
The Campaign for Social Science welcomes the relative protection given to the science budget in the spending review, says its chair, James Wilsdon, but it’s premature to see this as a good outcome for the long term health of the UK’s research base.
The Value Added by Universities Exceeds Their Constituent Services
Academics do not simply teach and do research: they are teacher-researchers, notes Steve Fuller. In reviewing the UK spending review, he says, it is the value added to society by nurturing this complex role that should be at the forefront of the state’s thinking about the criteria used to fund universities.
Will the UK Government Listen to Nurse Review?
Scientists in the UK are facing great uncertainty ahead of the Conservative government’s comprehensive spending review on November 25. Not only is funding for UK research under threat, the government is believed to be planning on culling many of the agencies that fund research in an effort to make savings.
