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 […]
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.
Duflo, Heckman, James, Sugrue, Tetlock Named AAPSS Fellows
The American Academy of Political and Social Science has elected five distinguished scholars and practitioners as 2016 fellows. Since founding its Fellows […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Ian Quigg
In the final installment of the 10 top essays submitted to the ESRC reflecting on how a social science-influenced world will look in 2015, we present Ian Quigg’s ruminations on what capitalism will look like after another half century’s buffeting by the ‘perennial gale of creative destruction.’
Strategic Contracting and Negotiation Journal Seeks Top Paper
The Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, which launched last year as the official journal of the International Association for Contract and Commercial […]
