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)
Being in a relationship that others disapprove of From Journal of Social and Personal Relationships The evolution of atheism scientific and humanistic approaches From […]
Sonia Livingstone on Children and the Internet
How are children using the Internet? How is it affecting them? Sonia Livingstone, who has overseen a major study of children’s behaviour online discusses these issues with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Family stability more important than sexual orientation to children, the social science to social media, and more in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News.
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Political ads by independent groups are not only common – they are more effective From American Political Research Interrogational torture: Effective or purely sadistic? […]
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When the Boys Fit in Better Than the Girls
Racially integrated schools offer a number of benefits for students: they are able to expand their cultural outlooks, gain new friends, learn about those who are different, and get better educations at schools with better resources than they would otherwise attend. However, students may struggle with making friends, interacting across racial lines, developing an ethnic identity and with academic achievement
social science sites of the week
Here is the latest weekly round up. Irish referendum See our selected links via the elections blog. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation international summit The […]
Avner de-Shalit on the Spirit of Cities
Some people have strong and visceral reactions to cities. They might love or loathe New York, or Jerusalem, or Berlin. This may have something to do with the architecture and the infrastructure of a place; it may also be a response, at some level, to the people, the culture, the politics, the way of life. Avner de-Shalit claims that some cities – not all cities but some – have a spirit.
