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 […]
How Scholars Can Be Strategic Communicators
As academics, we are not usually trained – or even encouraged – to seek an audience for our research beyond the world of peer review. This leaves us ill-equipped for the policy world, a competitive place in which scholars enjoy few advantages. To bring our ideas and findings into the policy arena, we must adopt a style of engagement that enable us to compete effectively with these other groups for the attention of decision-makers.
The Psychology of the “Psychology Isn’t a Science” Argument
Every so often the internet is set ablaze with opinion pieces on a familiar question: Are “soft” sciences, like psychology, actually science?
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Social Science Research Symposium – McGill Reporter Funding NIH behavioral research is a waste of money – Baltimore Sun Study maps the future of […]
The Humanities as Human Relations
Do the Humanities not have an intellectual basis as legitimate and rigorous as that of the natural and social sciences? And are not the Humanities in fact an essential part of higher education? Try considering the Humanities as a form of Human Relations.
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Music, violence, politics, integrity: Feminist contradictions or an editorial in the form of 18 tweets From European Journal of Women’s Studies ‘No […]
Why Social Science Research Matters
Michael Lubell, accomplished professor of physics, explains why the social sciences are critical to the advance of science and technology, and explains why we need to protect the social sciences from political attempts to de-fund them.
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Austerity policing: Is visibility more important than absolute numbers in determining public confidence in the police? From European Journal of Criminology The link […]
The Sociologist, the Consultant, the University and the Real World
In the context of consulting projects there may be very little room for the sociological imagination, the questioning of common sense, and, least of all, challenges to the status quo.
