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 […]
Doreen Massey on Space
In honor of the late Doreen Massey, an eminent geographer who died Friday at age 72, we repost her Social Science Bites podcast, which has long been one of our most popular. In this interview, Massey asked us to rethink our assumptions about space — and explained why.
Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research
“The social scientists we could do business with were those who grounded their ideas through field studies, cultural probes and social data”.
How can textbooks further student engagement?
All criticism of the genre notwithstanding, textbooks do have a central role to play in turning sociology students into sociologists. Sometimes I do wonder, however, whether it is time to re-invent the textbook.
More Alike Than Different: Assortative Mating and Antisocial Propensity in Adulthood
In the interest of full disclosure, I spent the first twenty-eight years of my life (give or take) being utterly baffled by […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Physical pain and guilty pleasures From Social Psychological and Personality Science Women earn more if they work in different occupations than men From Sociology […]
Provoked by Boredom: Experiences from Youth Confinement
Study finds boredom is a key experience in daily life in secure care and young people deal with their boredom through the generation of risk-taking action.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Re-establishing economics as a realist and relevant social science, the use of social science in court, and more in this weekly overview of Social Science News
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Can ‘Neds’ or ‘Chavs’ be non-delinquent, educated or even middle class?: Examining the cultural stereotypes From Sociology The heightened risk of immigrants developing schizophrenia […]
