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 […]
When the Right Thing to Do is Also the Wrong Thing: The Pandemic as a CSR Paradox
Professor Heidi Reed discusses the COVID-19 pandemic as a CSR paradox and explores her new paper, “When the right thing to do […]
New Georgetown, Knight Foundation Institute Aims to Translate Technology Research Into Policy
Georgetown University and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are investing $30 million in a new institute that will merge technology research and policy.
Howard’s Leslie T. Fenwick to Deliver 2023 Brown Lecture in Education Research
Leslie T. Fenwick, dean emerita of the Howard University School of Education, will deliver the 2023 Brown Lecture in Education Research.
Attacking Wicked Problems with Hip-Hop: An Interview with Walter Greason
Social Science Space caught up with Walter Greason to discuss hisjourneys, the new book ‘Illmatic Consequences’ he co-edited with Danian Darrell Jerry’, and the current political upheaval circling around the term ‘critical race theory.’
Bear Braumoeller, 1968-2023: Prescient Observer of the International Order
Bear Braumoeller, a political scientist and computational social scientist whose work on international conflict in today’s world seemed especially prescient after Russia’s war on Ukraine, has died
Celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Every year in May, Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebrates the histories and cultures of AANHPIs in the United States.
Talking With Paschal Anosike About African Development and His Award-Winning Book
Professor Paschal Anosike, author of the new book ‘Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa,’ has received the second Sage Social Justice Book Award.
Can We Trust the World Health Organization with So Much Power?
Robert Dingwall argues that the World health Organization has become a top-down, command-and-control approach, based on a narrow scientific base and the preferences, or prejudices, of a few major donors, that has failed to deliver in times of crisis.
