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 […]
Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes
The English in full moral panic are never an edifying spectacle. The Jimmy Savile affair is no exception, as self-appointed experts on child abuse, BBC-bashing tabloids and ambulance-chasing lawyers have piled into the fray.
Web 2.0: Anarchy or Revolution?
With the exponential expansion even over the last few months of Web 2.0 it is important for social scientists to get a grip on the wide-reaching implications of these developments.
Showmanship and The Entrepreneurial University
The dominance of form over substance in the academic labour market has become so unforgiving that small flaws may invalidate a candidate´s presentation of self. You certainly can do the job, but you just don´t look the part.
Money Degrades Our Ability to Empathize
New research finds that offering people money makes them less likely to correctly infer another person’s emotional state.
ESRC Festival of Social Science, and the ‘Big Data’ Debate
This week is the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science, an event that takes place all over the UK where social scientists get […]
New Speakers’ Corner Trust Debate now live
The latest debate in the Spekers’ Corner Trust ‘Forum for Debate’ series is now live: ‘The Right to Die – Personal Choice […]
How to Improve Your CV and Get a Great Job
The unsettling truth about the Academic job market.
Using British Library Resources for Social Science Research
A new guide for using the British Library as a resource for research in the Social Sciences has been launched on the ESRC website. […]
