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 […]
Human Progress – A new free research tool with a lot of potential
The Human Progress website is a meticulously created and managed database that steadily follows and documents human progress. It is a free research tool that saddles the line between our normal pessimistic outlooks and that of a more optimistic reality
Staying Lean
The phrase, “Lean In” has been on everyone’s lips since the popular book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by […]
Make It Work For You
There are very few good things that can come out of a recession. Extreme couponing aside, Dr. Emily C. Bianchi of Emory University […]
Mental Health Measurement and the Workplace
Due to the confusion over what counts as evidence, mental health research has largely failed to make a significant impact on workplace wellbeing and employment relations practices. Elizabeth Cotton argues that in order to make a positive difference, academic research will have to involve new technologies and communication strategies aimed at helping people to improve their mental health at work.
Universities awarded £19.5 million for overhaul of quantitative social science training
Fifteen universities across the UK will receive £19.5 million to overhaul their social science teaching over […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Inducing hope critical for peacemaking in the Middle East From Social Psychological and Personality Science An Essential Library of International Research in Cyberbullying From School […]
Whose Jobs Are These?
In firms with more female managers, are newly created jobs more likely to be filled by men or by women? Lisa E. […]
Words Vs. Numbers Social Science in the Commercial World
I am a Qualitative Social Scientist. I believe in that words tell you more than numbers and the emphasis on numbers in my current working environment has led me to think about why I feel so strongly about the importance of words and what Qualitative Social Science can offer the Commercial world. This leads me to make suggestions for ECRs considering leaving the Academy.
