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 […]
Examining the Nexus of CSR Reporting and the Global Refugee Crisis
Professors Kate Cooper and Rong Wang discuss their research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and answer questions on their paper, “From Reactionary to Revelatory: CSR Reporting in Response to the Global Refugee Crisis,” published in Business & Society.
What May the Review into the Australian Research Council Bode for University Research?
After years of concerns about the ARC – about political interference and low success rates – the review is a welcome step. But will it tackle the big issues?
Banning Books Threatens the Freedom to Read
Banned Books Week is an annual event, typically held the last week of September, celebrating the freedom to read. The celebration sponsored […]
Encounters with (Constitutional) Monarchy
Robert Dingwall notes he never met the late Queen Elizabeth. He did, however, once try to bar Charles’s entry to the Cambridge Union Debating Society…
Whither Nudge? New Evidence Review Questions Its Efficacy
New research reviewing an influential 2021 paper supporting the efficacy of the ‘nudge’ and others now warns nudges may not have any effect on behavior at all.
The International Sociological Association Should Be Ashamed of Its President
ISA may not have any great love for the richer countries of the world, argues Robert Dingwall, but its president should be capable of telling the difference between mutual aid among sovereign nations and a desire to subject other countries to external domination.
What Ethnographers Have Learned from People Who Use Drugs
Can ethnography, long characterized as a lower tier of evidence in studying drug use, find things other approaches miss?
After Rana Plaza: Scholars Study Exploitive Labor Regimes in Bangladesh
Worker exploitation in garment supply chain factories is not just about sweatshops, note the authors of “After Rana Plaza: Governing Exploitative Workplace Labour Regimes in Bangladeshi Garment Export Factories” which appeared in the Journal of Industrial Relations.
