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 […]
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.
Let’s Abandon That Qualitative/Quantitative Dichotomy
Are you doing qualitative research? Quantitative research? Howard Aldrich suggests that rather than defaulting to one of those terms and their tail of connotations, why not just describe your good research.
View From Korea: Higher Education Without Utopia
South Korea’s educational edifice has been praised near and far. But after a year spent among attentive and excellent students, Daniel Nehring wonders if the ‘pressure cooker’ apsects of the system aren’t sowing the seeds of a permanent status quo.
Social Science in the News
Ambedkar Institute to be India’s first Social Sciences university The Free Press Journal Mhow-based 25-year-old Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar National Institute of Social […]
Let’s Make Them All ‘Research Multi-versities’
Although universities and funding bodies pay lip-service to the importance of multi-discipline research, a physicist and an anthropologist argue there is a long way to go before the reality matches the rhetoric.
Social Science in the News
Should the Government Fund Only Science in the “National Interest”? National Geographic Texas lawmaker steps up a fight over control of […]
Ed Sociologist Pedro Noguera Awarded
Sociologist and education rights activist Pedro Noguera has received a second annual award that recognizes outstanding achievement in advancing the understanding of the behavioral and social sciences.
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 […]
