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 […]
The UK’s HE Landscape in the Wake of ‘Knowledge Economy’
The new government report ‘Succeeding as a Knowledge Economy’ takes forward most of the ideas about improving teaching at Britain institutions of higher education already found in a green paper published in November 2015. So what does this new report tell us about the future?
From Publication to the Public: Expanding your Research Beyond Academia
[Reposted with permission of the SAGE Connection blog, where this first appeared.] SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, recently held the […]
Will Habitat III Really Update the Urban Agenda?
In this interview, David Satterthwaite, editor of the journal ‘Environment & Urbanization,’ discusses the state of the ‘new’ urban agenda and what we can expect from the upcoming global conference on sustainable urban development.
The Social Science of Tax Preparation Software
It’s that time of year again: tax-filing season. Millions of Americans are probably downloading the latest version of their tax preparation software […]
The Sociologist of Mobility: John Urry, 1946-2016
John Urry, a sociologist probably best known for his work on mobilities but whose gaze also lit on issues ranging from tourism to energy use, from social change to complexity theory, died suddenly on March 18.
Our Man in Bogota Finds Colombia a Nation Resurgent
For most of the 20th century and into the 21st the South American nation of Colombia was wracked by civil wars, political […]
Statistical Association Takes on Use, Abuse of P-values
Even as it insists it’s not really saying anything new, the American Statistical Association Board of Directors has laid down a marker in the debate over what constitutes “statistical significance.”
The Stories We Tell, the Lives We Lead
Why does the Homeric of ‘violent’ seem so wedded to the term ‘street gang’? Criminologist Timothy Lauger answered that question in part in a an award-winning paper that looked at the stories gang members tell themselves.
