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 […]
ESRC’s ‘Celebrating the Social Sciences’
Here’s a quick link to the recently launched ESRC video, ‘Celebrating the social sciences’
Social scientists’ role in strengthening trust in scientific evidence
Originally posted to the SAGE Connection blog Last week was the ESRC’s annual festival of social science. This is the third year […]
John Urry and Chris Rojek: “British Sociology since 1945″
Recorded at the British Sociological Association annual conference 2011, sponsored by SAGE. In this interview with Professor John Urry, Professor Chris Rojek […]
A Vision of the Next Economy: from macro to metro
LSE Works, a lecture series sponsored by SAGE, had its final instalment on Thursday, March 24, 2011. The series has drawn attention […]
Where is future growth going to come from?
On February 17, 2011, Professor John Van Reenen gave a lecture on the future of economic growth in Britain, continuing the LSE […]
Is democracy possible now?
Last month, SAGE sponsored a one-day symposium at the British Academy on the future of democracy, and media’s contribution to that future. It […]
How did London get away with it? The recession and the north-south divide
Henry G Overman, professor of economic geography at LSE and director of the Spatial Economics Research Centre Last week was the first […]
Making the Case For the Social Sciences no.1: Wellbeing
Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by the Academy of Social Sciences, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research […]
