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 […]
Study Shows Lack of Female Authors in Academic Writing
Like it or loathe it, publishing in highprofile journals is the fast track to prestigious positions in academia. Yet somehow, in the search to understand why women’s scientific careers often fail to thrive, the role of academic writing has received little scrutiny. So to examine the representation of women within academic writing, Ione Fine, Alicia Shen, Jason Webster & Yuichi Shoda review 166,000 articles (between 2005-2017) to see how many are by women.
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.
