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 […]
Face Masks for COVID: An Obituary?
While the full story will probably have to await the attention of historians, writes Robert Dingwall, but anyone who criticized masking was labeled as a peddler of disinformation.
American Sociological Association Statement, Guidebook Back Teaching about Race and Racism
The American Sociological Association recently released a statement “urg[ing] public officials, educators, and lawmakers to avoid suppressing knowledge, violating academic and free speech, and prohibiting scholars and teachers from discussing and teaching about the roles of race and racism in society.
Orientalism and the Advocacy of Face Masks
A concern for Orientalist thinking should lead us to ask what British and American elites are doing with their representation of this imagined “Asia.”
Are Trigger Warnings Hitting Their Target?
Given the prevalence of trigger warnings, there is little consensus on the extent to which they are, in fact, an effective strategy for reducing the risk of trauma exposure, vicarious trauma, and re-traumatization.
Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap
Harvard University economic historian Claudia Goldin studies the origins, causes and persistence of the gender pay gap in the United States, which she discusses in this Social Science Bites podcast.
Watch the Webinar: The Cost-of-Living Crisis
Torsten Bell, chief executive officer of the Resolution Foundation, delivered the 2022 Campaign for Social Science Annual SAGE Lecture, on November 22. […]
Does Open Access Result In More Policy Citations?
Will you research be cited more often if it was originally published open access? The people at Overton, a platform which tracks citation in policy, decided to investigate.
The Covid Pandemic in France: A Review
Henri Bergeron et al. Covid-19: Une Crise Organisationelle Sciences Po: Les Presses, 2020. 9782724626650Jean-Paul Gaudillière et al Pandémopolitiqiue La Découverte, 2021. 9782348066153 […]
