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 […]
Postgraduate Study – A right or an opportunity?
There are all sorts of things from which we are excluded by limited means. Is postgraduate education really so different?
Can We Make College Cheaper?
The authors of “Why Does College Cost So Much?” take a look at the root causes and determine that we can reduce the price of higher education, but not dramatically.
Academy of Social Sciences launches evidence-gathering process
The Academy of Social Sciences is working to articulate the value of social science research to society, the wider economy and policymaking itself, in anticipation of government decisions on spending on research in the UK.
Implementing Finch Conference
A two-day conference organised by the Academy of Social Sciences looked at the implementation of the recommendations of the Finch Review for Open Access publishing in the UK.
Big Data: Benefit to Society, or Drowning in a Data Deluge?
With larger data sets offering researchers the potential to look at more subtle interactions, big data is becoming increasingly valuable to social sciences, yet challenges remain.
Showmanship and The Entrepreneurial University
The dominance of form over substance in the academic labour market has become so unforgiving that small flaws may invalidate a candidate´s presentation of self. You certainly can do the job, but you just don´t look the part.
“Social Scientists Need to Make a Stronger Case for Their Worth”
Social scientists need to make a strong case for their worth inside and outside of academia.
War in History: Open Access Journals
Simon Ball, Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow, discusses the dangers of Gold Route OA to the Humanities and scholarship in general.
