Would you like a deeper understanding of NSF’s Broader Impacts (BI) criterion?  Would you like tips and strategies for addressing […]

The big idea Scientists don’t take time away from their research to share their expertise with journalists, policymakers and everyone […]

Alvaro de Menard, which we accept as the nom de blog of a non-academic “independent researcher of dubious nature” and […]

University of KwaZulu-Natal Professor Emeritus William Mark Freund, the economic, social, political, and development historian, died suddenly at his home […]

A half-century of increasingly sophisticated research (e.g., on early childhood interventions, residential segregation, and neighborhood effects) and conceptual advances (e.g., critical race theory, intergroup relations, and stereotype threat) have given the country a much deeper understanding of inequality’s causes and consequences.

Picture a standard corporate meeting room, participants crowded around a video of multi-racial actors acting out hypothetical office scenarios. They […]

From the budding sense of a tight-knit community of fellow students and faculty, to radio silence, for a lot of students the rapid coronavirus-driven shift to a digital university experience doesn’t feel like enough. I am one of those students — a current graduate student who recently moved back home to America to finish up the last year of a dual-degree program.

In the previous post Mathew Flinders identified the ways in which collaborative research touches the emotions of academics and places different kinds […]

The simple fact is that deep, embedded, collaborative research whereby researchers work hand-in-hand with community participants in order to reveal […]

Click here to read more about this year’s Aspect event and to register for any of the 19 webinars being […]

In a paper published by Royal Society Open Science, a team of researchers ask a more detailed question of the process, “Are replication rates the same across academic fields?’

The management of the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the hollowness of that alternative in policies that have been made by people with very narrow life experiences and imposed on others with whom there is, as Disraeli once said, ‘no intercourse and no sympathy’.