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 […]
Open Access or Legalized Piracy? Open Access and the Finch Report
It seems we are to get Open Access in the UK whether we like it or not. It is, though, interesting to note how cavalier some people are about others’ intellectual property rights.
Getting the Help They Need
For many, jails may be the only place providing regular access to essential health treatment. Upon release, both health services and medication regimens often abruptly stop with little or no follow up care
Conference Brings Global Focus to Socal Inequality
Academics from all over the world gather in York this week for one of the most significant conferences of social policy researchers […]
The State of Social Science: only itself to blame?
Both society and government rely on social science a great deal, and those who criticise it for what they see as its failure to predict events have misunderstood the nature of the knowledge it can produce.
The Importance of Studying the Obvious
Everyone has experience being human, and so findings in social science coincide with something that we have either experienced or can imagine experiencing. The result is that social science all too often seems like common sense.
The Finch Report on Open Access: Quick Overview
A quick overview of the Finch Report on Open Access, and useful links.
Why the Stevens Op-Ed is Wrong
The claim that real politics is messier than the statistics are capable of capturing is obviously correct. But the implied corollary – that the government shouldn’t go out of its way to support it – doesn’t follow.
