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 […]
Social Sciences Worth an Estimated £24 Billion to UK Economy
This post originally appeared on the London School of Economis (LSE) Media page here. It is kindly reposted with their permission. Social science […]
Roberto Unger on What is Wrong with the Social Sciences Today?
In the latest edition of Social Science Bites, Brazilian philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger discusses what is wrong with the social sciences today, arguing that they have degenerated into a pseudo-‐science.
Facebook and Uncritical Contemporary Culture
There they sit, giving the ‘thumbs-up’ to our lives, affirming that all is okay in our world. The ubiquitous “like” button, the […]
Conference Announcement: Finding Common Ground? Research ethics across the Social Sciences.
10th January 2014, 09.30 – 16.30, British Library Conference Centre We are pleased to hold this conference in partnership with the Academy […]
Joseph Stiglitz Receives 2014 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize
Nobel Prize-winning economist will give public lecture in May as part of prize ceremony.
New Director Named at Stanford’s CASBS
Renowned political scientist Dr. Margaret Levi has accepted an appointment as director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (CASBS). She succeeds Dr. Iris Litt, who has twice served as Director and was the first female director of the Center.
The New Academic Elitism
In academia, elitism seems to be taking root, and privilege seems to matter more and more. Daniel Nehring discusses the consequences.
Europe slides in Times Higher Education rankings
Some of the top institutions in Europe have dropped down the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2013. The UK and US continue to dominate while leaders in France, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, Belgium, Ireland and Austria have seen their stars fade. The results are likely to spur on advocates of a scheme to produce a measurement of university excellence that better reflects the strengths of universities outside the US and UK.
Taking the top spot in the THE rankings for the third year in a row is the California Institute of Technology. Oxford has also maintained its position in joint second place but in a tussle between the East and West coasts of the US, Harvard has pushed Stanford into fourth place, having regained its position next to Oxford at number two.
