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 […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
The failures of governance that have led to the “Great Recession” and the end of public trust From Administration & Society Safe sex […]
Mid Staffordshire: A true test for accountability
Guest post from Roger Kline, Visiting Fellow at Middlesex University and co-director of Patients First, a whistleblowers network. The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry report could be a watershed moment for the NHS.
Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?
This is not a body of work that instructs us what to think – it invites us to ask the question that an ethnographer would ask: confronted with this scene, what is going on here?
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 […]
