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 […]
New Congress Gets First Peek at Proposed NSF Budget
Social science’s raise in the White House’s proposed National Science Foundation budget raises some Republican eyebrows.
Tomorrow’s Britain Needs Social Science Today, Report Argues
The Campaign for Social Science is asking the British government-to-be for a greater recognition of social science, arguing that the nation’s future prosperity will depend on it.
Obama’s Budget Proposal Would Raise NSF Budget 5 Percent
Although it may be aspirational than actual, the president’s proposals for U.S. government spending on social science and statistical agencies are well up from this year’s appropriations.
REF: An Idea Whose Time Never Came
Reporting on panel looking at the UK’s Research Excellence Framework, Liz Morrish looks at whether the assessment tools created by government have extended their reach and left academics exposed.
We’re At Work on the Next Iteration of REF
Not all eyes will be glued to the release of the UK’s Research Excellence Framework on Thursday. Some of the people who built the REF are evaluating the current lessons to improve the next version.
A Quick Q&A on the REF With Its Creator
The Conversation asked the man who developed Britain’s Research Excellence Framework back in 2008, Rama Thirunamachandran, vice-chancellor and principal at Canterbury Christ Church University, to talk through it. We repost that conversation here.
NSF Funding Increases Under ‘Cromnibus’ Bill
UPDATED: With all eyes focused on not shutting down the U.S. government, the contentious issue of funding the NSF in the 2015 fiscal year may end with a (pleasing) whimper.
NSF Changes Guidelines for Informative Titles, Abstracts
UPDATED: Amidst calls by politicians for greater transparency in how the National Science Foundation arrives at grant decisions, the federal agency institutes new guidelines for more accessible descriptions of projects.
