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 Scottish Referendum: Social Science and National Identity
As the independence vote moves from all-consuming question to historical incident, what are the lessons that Scottish universities and in particular Scottish social scientists should take away?
Stanford’s Eberhardt Receives MacArthur Fellowship
A social psychologist whose work examines how racial bias–unconscious but still present–impacts Americans’ perceptions and reactions to crime is one of 21 new recipients of the MacArthur ‘genius award.’
Call for Papers: Challenges for the New Cohesion Policy in 2014-2020
In 2013, the budgetary and regulatory reform of European Union Cohesion policy for 2014-20 was finally agreed following the most extensive process […]
Beware: Neuroscience’s Trappings Dress Up ‘Cargo Cult Science’
In marketing and in nontraditional education the words and concepts of neuroscience are appropriated with abandon. In many cases, despite the veneer of research respectability this suggests, the results are anything but scientific.
In the UK, Are Student Populations Growing Older?
In an article from The Conversation’s ‘Hard Evidence’ series, Lancaster’s Jill Johnes looks at the numbers and finds the more mature undergraduate population has grown slowly, but with a spike this year.
Domestic Violence – is Further Criminalization the Answer?
No one favors domestic violence. But in strengthening protections to counter it, asks Sofia Graça, is adding new laws automatically the best way forward?
Social Science in the News
Making Social Science Relevant Again: Engaging Students Through Wicked Problems From Big Think The most frequently voiced criticisms of higher education is that […]
Children’s Perceptions: Teachers are Girls, Scientists are Boys
If you were to draw a ‘scientist,’ what would be the distinguishing features? Martin Rowley and James Hartley look at psychology studies which have evaluated children’s perceptions of scientists, all confirming stereotypical views of scientists as predominately white and male.
