Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Shortlist for the Duckies 2018 Revealed
The shortlist for the Online Achievement in International Studies (OAIS) Awards, otherwise known as the Duckies, has been announced. This year’s awards ceremony will feature talks by three expert bloggers on their craft.
Prize-Winner Describes the Process Behind Her Dissertation
Recently Holly Campbell, a student from University College London, won the EGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize . We reached out to Holly to find out a little bit more about her award-winning dissertation, entitled ‘Moments of Progress: An exploration of the interaction between female enterprise and patriarchal norms in Selcuck, Turkey.’
Patricia Goodson on the POWER of Better Academic Writing
A combination of influences — practice, classroom and POWER — has made Patricia Goodson’s book ‘Becoming an Academic Writer: 50 Exercises for Paced, Productive, and Powerful Writing’ a winner for many academics around the world, and now the Textbook & Academic Authors Association has awarded Goodson’s book with one of its 2018 Textbook Excellence Awards. We talk to the author about writing, both her own and perhaps yours!
Campaign for Social Science Adds Four to Board
Britain’s Campaign for Social Science has announced the appointment of four new board members, drawing on extensive research, public policy and practitioner social science expertise.
AAPSS Names 2018 Fellows
The American Academy of Political and Social Science will induct the organizer of the American Opportunity Survey and a professor of social work who focuses on how public policy affects children and families as two of the five eminent scholars to be inducted as fellows of the academy this year.
Toward a Critical Citizenship Psychology: Honoring Catriona Macleod
Catriona Macleod received the 2017 Psychology and Social Change Award from her home institution, Rhodes University, late last year in large part for recognizing and then critiquing the psychology of Africa.
Solidarity and Commitment in a #MeToo Age: Honoring Psychologist Jeanne Marecek
Jeanne Marecek, one of the pioneers in studying the nexus of feminisms and psychologies, has been awarded the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award from the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychology of Women.
FABBS Honors Six Impactful Early Career Scientists
The Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences has named six winners of its 2017 Early Career Impact Award. The award goes to early career scientists of FABBS member societies who have made major contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior, and who are within the 10 years of having received their PhD.
