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 […]
A new U.S. senator, the founder of Institute for Women’s Policy Research and the director of the Center for the Study of American Politics are among seven distinguished scholars named 2014 fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
The benefits for social science of the just passed U.S. government budget is less what it adds and more what it doesn’t subtract.
AAPSS and Brookings will join to discuss the effects of the Great Recession in areas such as macroeconomic policy, politics, the job market and household wealth in a forum that will be live streamed here this Thursday.
This post originally appeared on the London School of Economis (LSE) Media page here. It is kindly reposted with their permission. Social science […]
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.
There they sit, giving the ‘thumbs-up’ to our lives, affirming that all is okay in our world. The ubiquitous “like” button, the […]
10th January 2014, 09.30 – 16.30, British Library Conference Centre We are pleased to hold this conference in partnership with the Academy […]
Nobel Prize-winning economist will give public lecture in May as part of prize ceremony.