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 […]
Around the educational mission we are now spinning a web of ‘accountability’ that has little to do with explaining or justifying our activities, and much to do with obscuring our responsibility through the creation of elaborate processes.
A review of new material presented at the Midwest Political Science Association’s annual conference in Chicago.
The controversy over BBC journalists’ use of a student tour group linked to the London School of Economics should not be allowed to go away quietly.
Recently I’ve seen a lot of hero/heroine narratives. They now seem to be popping up in research impact plans and claims about impact.
Only 15 minutes? The social layers of fame From American Sociological Review Outcomes in adults with autism spectrum disorders: A historical perspective From Autism
Ziyad Marar argues that greater funding of the social sciences is needed, not less
Universities are starting to look like the behemoths of the US auto industry of the 1980s, with highly-paid CEOs buried in their offices looking only at numbers.
Is “social science” an oxymoron? Will that ever change? Scientific American (blog) More widows than widowers: study Sun.Star I’m a scientist. A […]