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 […]
Compendium of Research Funders’ Impact Requirements
Editor’s Note: This resource will evolve over time. If you’ve seen impact-related language on a grant application and would like to share, […]
Congress Seeks Immediate Research Ideas for Stimulus Legislation
mmittee of the U.S. House of Representatives wants to make sure that all sciences continue to play a role in fighting the coronavirus, and asks for ideas on how the next economic stimulus package in the United States can support research.
Ken Prewitt Wants to Retrofit The Social Sciences
“In a world facing many complex, formidable problems,” Kenneth Prewitt asks, “how can the social sciences become a decisive force for human […]
NYU’s Social Science for Impact Forum
Each year, NYU researchers analyze New York State Medicaid, New York City Department of Education, and New York City subsidized housing data to discover new patterns of family experiences and outcomes and inform new approaches to fighting poverty, reducing inequality, and expanding opportunity in our communities.
Publishing More and Achieving Less
Do sociology graduate students need to publish more today than they did a generation ago to get a faculty position? Do assistant professors need to publish more to get tenure?
White House Budget Would Reduce NSF, Kill Minerva
Although the budgets released by the administration of U.S President Donald Trump have been seen more as gestures than serious spending plans, […]
Coherence Front to Back Key to Usable Impact Statements
UK Research and Innovation, Britain’s main research funding body, is scrapping separate impact sections from all grant applications. Paul Benneworth and Julia Olmos Peñuela argue how impact statements can produce meaningful statements of the potential future impact of research and set out a framework for assessing these claims.
NSF Getting Smaller 2020 Raise Than Anticipated
The National Science Foundation, the premiere funder of basic social and behavioral research in the United States, will see a 2.5% increase in funding in the upcoming fiscal year.
