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 […]
Indian Sociological Society Awards to Atal, Uberoi
The Indian Sociological Society has honored Patricia Uberoi and Yogesh Atal with its 2016 ts Lifetime Achievement Awards.
A Milestone for the Mainstreaming of LGBTQ Studies
Scholarly and public interest in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer studies, as well as to the vast array of research being conducted on LGBTQ lives, relationships, and communities, has moved well into the mainstream of academe, says the editor of a new award-winning encyclopedia on the subject.
Intrepid Explorers Leader Takes Top ESRC Impact Award
A Ph.D. geography student from King’s College London whose efforts to share with the public stories of social science work and research in the field were both effective and inspiring has been named the 2016 Impact Champion by Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council.
ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2016 Shortlist Announced
Now in its fourth year, the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize recognizes the work conducted by researchers funded by Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council who achieve outstanding economic and societal impacts.
Call for Nominations for 2016 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science
Nominations are now open for the 2016 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science. Now in its fifth year, the prize […]
Nico Calavita’s Incremental Advance to Scholarly Activism
Nico Calavita is, by his own admission, a sort of accidental activist scholar. Now, after a career in which he’s become a recognized expert on the tools and provision of affordable housing, Calavita has been honored with the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award, sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association and SAGE Publishing.
Posts on Radicalization, Slavery Win Duckies
A blog post arguing that treating all Muslims as threats plays into the hands of ISIS and another showing a time lapse […]
Experts on Economic Mobility Win 2016 Moynihan Prize
Social policy experts Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill have been named the 2016 winners of the 2016 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize by the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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