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 […]
University of Pennsylvania announces new forum on Social Science and Policy, Cary Cooper and Stephen Anderson make the case for a chief social scientist in the Guardian, and more in this update on Social Science News.
A response to Sir Simon Jenkins’ article on the value of public universities.
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Working mothers tend to be happier and healthier than mothers who stay at home caring for young children, according to recent research. But many of those who work are often haunted by the question: “Am I screwing up my kids?”
Future for Women on boards: Milestone or Millstone? Annual report from FTSE and Cranfield University. It examines the percentage of women on […]
Why do some people hide their light under a bushel while others promise more than they can deliver? In the latest edition of the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Dr René Lindstädt (University of Essex) and Dr Jeffrey Staton (Emory University, USA) have developed a theory to explain the phenomenon.
Social Science research is changing our understanding of the police and policing. This is raising fundamental questions about how police officers are recruited, trained and organised
How an unholy alliance of arrogant scientists and self-interested federal bureaucrats came to widen the net of ethical regulation intended to deal with abuses in medical research to empirical investigation in the humanities and social sciences.