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 […]
Crafting the Best DEI Policies: Include Everyone and Include Evidence
Organizations shouldn’t back away from workplace DEI efforts. Rather, the research suggests, they should double down, using a more inclusive approach that emphasizes civility and dialogue – one aimed at finding common ground.
The Public’s Statistics Should Serve, Well, the Public
Paul Allin sets out why the UK’s Royal Statistical Society is launching a new campaign for public statistics.
Why, and How, We Must Contest ‘Development’
Why is contestation a better starting point for studying and researching development than ‘everyone wants the same thing’?
New SSRC Project Aims to Develop AI Principles for Private Sector
The new AI Disclosures Project seeks to create structures that both recognize the commercial enticements of AI while ensuring that issues of safety and equity are front and center in the decisions private actors make about AI deployment.
Megan Stevenson on Why Interventions in the Criminal Justice System Don’t Work
Megan Stevenson’s work finds little success in applying reforms derived from certain types of social science research on criminal justice.
Why We’ve Had to Dramatically Shift How We Talk About UK Politics
The upcoming UK General Election is often framed as ‘Rishi or Kier for PM.’ This is not, write the authors a textbook on UK politics, the questions being asked by actual Britons.
Pandemic Nemesis: Illich reconsidered
An unexpected element of post-pandemic reflections has been the revival of interest in the work of Ivan Illich, a significant public intellectual […]
Beyond Net-Zero Targets: When Do Companies Maximize Their Potential to Reduce Carbon Emissions?
Companies with a better understanding of climate change, the authors argue, have realized the need to plan actions beyond the business level.
