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 […]
Social Science Sites of the Week
London Conference on Somalia The UK will host the London conference on Somalia on 23 February. It will involve a number of […]
My Social Science Career: Interview with George Ritzer
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, spoke to socialsciencespace about his influences in the field.
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Olympic massacre to the Olympic Stress Syndrome (International Review for the Sociology of Sport) Tobacco consumption and the poor (Ethnography)
Social science sites of the week
Gov.uk launched. Beta site opens for public testing. It is the intention that this will eventually replace Directgov as a single one […]
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
UCSB receives grant to study gangs Santa Barbara Independent SANParks offers’ Social Science bursaries By press release
Informant Confidentiality in the Corporate University
UK newspapers have belatedly picked up on a troubling precedent that is crystallizing in the US courts. Boston College has been ordered to disclose recordings from an archive of interviews with former IRA members to the Police Service of Northern Ireland…
Social science sites of the week
http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/social-science-sites-of-week_26.html 27th January is Holocaust memorial day To mark the occasion a new educational tool has been launched by University of Southern […]
The Campaign for Eddie Gilfoyle’s Murder Conviction to be Squashed
The ability of people to keep their most desperate, innermost thoughts hidden from those around them is surely something that juries ought to be reminded of in cases where a death could be suicide or murder…
