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 prominence of Mafia in Southern Italy hinders the implementation of victim–offender mediation From European Journal of Criminology Celebrating 50 years: Information Science at […]
The Republican war on Social Science, Natural Science and Social Science combine, and more on your weekly overview of Social Science News.
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome András Tilcsik of the University of Toronto and Christopher Marquis of Harvard University, whose article […]
This week Italian elections. The Italian political science association provides free access to its English language journal Political science This includes articles […]
“We are now in a situation where science, technology, engineering and maths – the STEM subjects – were about 15 to 20 years ago….there was a lack of public understanding of what they contributed to society and its development”
As even liberal arts colleges continue to turn their back on the liberal arts, where will the technocrats produced by higher education hone their thinking skills to address the current crisis in governing?
Emory’s recent decision to shut down or suspend various academic departments and programs has rightly generated campus-wide and national attention.
Just as it is insufficiently recognised in public debates, the emotional side of forced flexibility in academic labour does not appear to be a major topic of conversation among established sociologists