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 Early Career Honor Recognizes Researcher Examining Renewable Energy Policies
Rebecca Windemer, a lecturer at the University of the West of England who studies renewable energy amid the communities where it is generated, received the Economic and Social Research Council’s 2021 Celebrating Impact Prize for the Outstanding Early Career Impact.
Banaji, Jurafsky Receive NAS’s Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Prize for 2022
A psychologist whose work helped create our understanding or implicit bias and a linguist who helped us computationally model language have won the 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences.
Participatory Peace-Building Program Wins ESRC Impact Prize
Improbable Dialogues, which works on peace-building initiatives in Colombia, was announced winner of the Outstanding Societal Impact award from the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2021.
ESRC Honors Coma/Consciousness Research for Outstanding Public Policy Impact
With proposing changes to the law to promote person-centered decision-making for ‘coma’ patients as the focus, Celia and Jenny Kitzinger’s research has benefitted over 68,000 patients in prolonged coma, vegetative or minimally conscious states
Social and Behavioral Scientists Named in Australia Day Honors
The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia released the 2022 Australia Day Honours List, and sprinkled among the 1,040 honorees were several prominent Antipodean social and behavioral scientists.
Nominations Invited for Annual Downs Intellectual Freedom Award
The Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas.
Refugee Studies Centre Honored with ESRC Impact Prize
Led by professor Alexander Betts of University of Oxford, ESRC-funded researchers have drawn international attention to the key role played by refugee-led organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting a rapid change in global policy and providing vital assistance to more than 100,000 of the most vulnerable refugees.
Winning the Australasian Reporting Awards: Does It Matter?
In a study published in the Australian Journal of Management, the authors examine whether the Australasian Reporting Awards assessment criteria reliably reflect the observable quality of financial reporting.
