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 […]
Input from Social and Behavioral Scientists Essential in Energy-Use Reduction Policy Making
Research shows people generally prefer being green to being greedy, but even if people are motivated, they don’t always know how to reduce energy use or, if they make a behavioral change, whether the change helped them reach their energy saving goals.
Social Science Needs to Benefit Society, and Now
The last two UK governments have invested heavily in social science research. But we still do not know how to use the results in order to start improving society. This has to change, and soon.
Make a Charitable Donation of Your Personal Data
You donate your money to charity, your blood to other and your time to special causes. So why not give of your data for science research?
Discrimination through Ambiguity: Reducing Workplace Bias Against Minority Immigrants
Discrimination becomes easier when its wrapped in the amorphous blanket of an applicant lacking certain ‘soft skills,’ suggests a news paper in the journal Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Roundtable Puts Social and Behavioral Research Back on Agenda
A roundtable sponsored by the U.S. National Research Council will examine applications of social and behavioral science.
It’s Time to Take the Measure of Social Mobility
Despite its obsession with the concept of equal opportunity, the United States hasn’t actively monitored its residents’ social mobility for more than four decades. Now a group of social scientists have proposed an efficient way using existing tools to chart mobility.
REF: An Idea Whose Time Never Came
Reporting on panel looking at the UK’s Research Excellence Framework, Liz Morrish looks at whether the assessment tools created by government have extended their reach and left academics exposed.
We’re At Work on the Next Iteration of REF
Not all eyes will be glued to the release of the UK’s Research Excellence Framework on Thursday. Some of the people who built the REF are evaluating the current lessons to improve the next version.
