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 […]
Boredom can fuel hostility toward outsiders
In a recent article in Miller-McCune Magazine, Tom Jacobs discusses new research that explains how feelings of boredom can both strengthen solidarity […]
Bad data or no data leads to policy blind spots…
Over the last decade the hallowed principle of ‘evidence-based policy-making’ has become cliché in government and policy circles in the UK, and […]
Song Lyrics, Twitter Help Chart Public Mood
Michael Haederle describes a new research method to work out the mood of a group of people. Social scientists seeking to assess the […]
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 […]
