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 […]
Can Federal Funding for the Social Sciences Survive in 2015?
The change in political balance in the U.S. Congress almost certainly will impact the fortunes of government-funded social and behavioral science next year. It’s time, argues Howard Silver, for universities and private industry to join the effort to preserve and protect these disciplines.
Washington Update: SBE Vacancies, No Clarity From Midterms
NSF’s SBE Directorate Seeks to Fill Numerous Leadership Posts The Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation […]
Seeking Champions for Social Sciences
Past attempts by American policymakers to degrade the role of social science in the nation’s research and educational infrastructure highlight the necessity of having champions ready to joust in the tourneys on Capitol Hill.
Tirole Win Continues NSF/SBE Win Streak
The latest winner of the Nobel in economics saw the National Science Foundation support his formative work, just as it has for every winner since 1998.
How Germany Managed to Abolish University Tuition Fees
If Germany has done it, why can’t we? That’s the question being asked by many students around the world in countries that charge tuition fees to university. Barbara Kehm explains how Germany reached this point, and whether it’s likely to stay there.
Sociologist Jane Elliott In Place at Head of ESRC
As announced earlier in the year, sociologist Jane Elliott took the reins of Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council on October 1. […]
What Can REF Teach Us About Impact?
Discussions around the REF have tended to be negative, but what exactly is viewed poorly varies by interest group[. Two academics who conducted an analysis of the media’s covefage of the framework argue there is much that can be learned for future assessment exercises and it is ever-more important that we get it right when thinking about ‘impact’ in research and the pressures academics face.
Congressional Elections Have Consequences for Social Science
Opposition to the social, behavioral and economic sciences isn’t new. Here, Howard J. Silver recounts an attempt after the 1994 ‘Republican Revolution’ to demolish the National Science Foundation’s SBE directorate.
