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 […]
September 19, 2013
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
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The Academy welcomes nominations for Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize
The Moynihan Prize recognizes social scientists, public officials and other leaders in the public arena who champion the use of informed judgment […]
The New National Service for Social and Economic Data
This year’s British Sociological Association annual conference saw countless presentations from all over the country, many of which were based on secondary […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Why do some terrorist organizations adopt suicide bombing as a tactic? Journal of Conflict Resolution Public views on the ‘self-sexualization’ of Miley Cyrus From […]
‘Reasonable Suspicion’ That Race Matters in the Immigration Debate
In the furor over immigration reform in the U.S., many taking a tougher line cite the law, not the evident ethnicity of the immigrants, for their stance. But that ethnicity matters, new research suggests.
Engaging Community Researchers: What Works?
A massive qualitative research undertaking at the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service engages community researchers, lead researcher Jessica H. Smith discusses the benefits and difficulties of this approach.
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Music, violence, politics, integrity: Feminist contradictions or an editorial in the form of 18 tweets From European Journal of Women’s Studies ‘No […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Austerity policing: Is visibility more important than absolute numbers in determining public confidence in the police? From European Journal of Criminology The link […]
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.
