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 […]
Not exactly blogging the SPA conference…….
As a freshly established blogger, I had in mind to try my hand at ‘blogging a conference’ (the Social Policy Association Conference, […]
My social science career: Interview with Russell Schutt
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, Russell Schutt talks to socialsciencespace about how he became interested […]
New report on government commissioning of social research
A UK study into government commissioning of social research has concluded that any of the three procurement methods currently used can be […]
Speech by UK universities minister on longitudinal studies and social mobility
In a speech this week in London – against a backdrop of students protesting noisily about government cuts to higher education – […]
“Research matters: Graduates with quantitive methods skills are increasingly sought after”
Ricky Rylance writes in the Independent about the value of quantitive methods to social science students. “Mention quantitive methods to any social […]
Census and Society: why everyone counts
2011 has been the year of the population survey. The UK saw its most detailed census to date. Understanding Society, a huge […]
Can a single case be used to test theory?
This post is by Richard Nielsen on the Social Science Statistics Blog, hosted by the Institute for Quantitative Science at Harvard University. Every so often, […]
Playing the numbers game in policy
The statistical illiteracy of the population – including policy-makers – was the subject of a discussion at the British Library on 13 […]
