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 […]
Horowitz Foundation Marks 20th Year of Social Science Grants
This marks the 20th year that the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy has been passing out grants to social scientists, and the deadline to apply for this year’s round of $7,500 grants is December 1.
Academy of Social Sciences Names 69 New Fellows
Sixty-nine academics, practitioners and policymakers from across the social sciences are now fellows of Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences the venerable society announced Thursday. Fellows are chosen after an extensive peer review process for the excellence and impact of their work using social science for public benefit.
MacArthur Fellows Include Psychologist, Anthropologist, Geographer
Cybercrime, mass surveillance and migration are among the areas studied by the new cohort of MacArthur Foundation fellows announced today. The fellowships, often referred to as “genius grants,” offer a no-strings-attached $625,000 cash grant to exceptionally creative people expected to achieve something important using their outstanding talent going forward.
What Nudged the Nobel Committee to Honor Richard Thaler?
Richard Thaler was not the first proponent of behavioral economics to be awarded a Nobel Prize, notes Sergey Popov. But Thaler’s star turn came when the Great Recession and it orgy or irrationality brought a lot of attention to research that extensively cites the University of Chicago’s economist’s 40-year-long academic career.
A Founding Father of Behavioral Economics Wins Nobel Prize
Richard H. Thaler, the University of Chicago economist whose contributions linking psychology to the ‘dismal science’ caught the public’s eye in his co-authored bestselling book Nudge, has received this year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences.
Nominations Sought for 2019 AAPSS’ Moynihan Prize
The American Academy of Political and Social Science welcomes nominations for the 2019 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize, with a deadline of October 17 for letters of nomination to be submitted.
Shamit Saggar New Chair for Campaign for Social Science
Shamit Saggar from the University of Essex has been appointed to be the new head of the UK’s Campaign for Social Science.
Carrying the Torch For a Classic Political Science Text
An award that honors enduring contribution from a political science text this year has gone to ‘ Politics in the American States.’
