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 Does Putin Think?
David Canter considers the sorts of psychological processes that may be shaping Vladimir Putin’s actions.
Lockdown is Another Triumph of Populism Over Science – Most People Have Behaved Rationally So Far
By popular request, I am posting this as a free-access version of one of the first commentary pieces that I wrote for […]
Alondra Nelson Tabbed to Serve as Acting Head of OSTP
On Wednesday, President Joseph Biden handed sociologist Alondra Nelson interim leadership of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Nelson currently serves as OSTP’s deputy director for science and society
Federal Fraud Hunters on Their Symbiosis with Social Science
We interviewed two officials at the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery to talk about their thoughts on the importance of the social sciences in government oversight.
Business research into practice landing page
BUSINESS RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE The LSE Business Review and Business & Management INK are both committed to the exchange of knowledge […]
Corporate Social Responsibility with Debbie Haski-Leventhal: Watch the Teaching Business for People and Planet Webinar
“What many businesses now understand is that CSR is not a department or role or office or report, but a mindset.” Debbie […]
Bioethicists are Supposed to Stand Up for Bodily Autonomy in the Pandemic. Why Aren’t They?
“A leading association of bioethicists has come squarely behind the idea of mandated vaccination. A statement issued by the Association of Bioethics […]
COVID-19, Masks and Magical Thinking
The state of the face mask debate is rather as if Galileo had published his account of the heliocentric universe and then included a paragraph at the end telling the reader to ignore all the evidence because the Church had declared that everything revolved around the Earth.
