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 […]
David Stuckler on Austerity and Death
You might assume that deaths increase in a recession, but that doesn’t necessarily happen.
Don’t Let Your Best Employees Get Away
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Professor Wendy Marcinkus Murphy of Babson College. She and co-authors James P. Burton of Northern […]
Did Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law Increase Firearm Homicides?
At least two empirical papers have found that Stand Your Ground (SYG) laws like the one in Florida are associated with an average increase rather than a decrease in firearm homicides.
Kate Pickett on the Case for Equality
Social epidemiologist Kate Pickett, co-author (with Richard Wilkinson) of The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, argues that inequality has bad […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Thatcher’s legacy on ‘race’ From Race & Class Animals and humans – A false divide? From Social Science Information The impact of […]
Angela McRobbie on the Illusion of Equality for Women
Has equality for women been achieved? Feminism has apparently achieved many of its aims. But have they? Angela McRobbie from the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, discusses her research on this topic.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Value of social science research often measured by what you don’t see Huffington Post Govt plans single agency for social science research […]
Making the Case for the Social Sciences: Longitudinal Research
In June we will launch the latest Making the Case for the Social Sciences booklet, which highlights important recent longitudinal research into education, health and other social issues.
