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 […]
Scientists’ Data is Here to Make an Impact
The big idea Scientists don’t take time away from their research to share their expertise with journalists, policymakers and everyone else just […]
Excerpt from ‘What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It’
Alvaro de Menard, which we accept as the nom de blog of a non-academic “independent researcher of dubious nature” and who is […]
Bill Freund, 1944-2020: Inquisitive and Elegant Scholar on African Historiography
University of KwaZulu-Natal Professor Emeritus William Mark Freund, the economic, social, political, and development historian, died suddenly at his home in Durban, […]
Why Social Science? To Help Dismantle White Supremacy
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.
Diversity Training and the Future
Picture a standard corporate meeting room, participants crowded around a video of multi-racial actors acting out hypothetical office scenarios. They fill out […]
In Response to ‘COVID-19 Forces Universities to Refocus their Vision’
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.
Doing Collaborative Research
In the previous post Mathew Flinders identified the ways in which collaborative research touches the emotions of academics and places different kinds of demands […]
A Defense of Collaborative Research
The simple fact is that deep, embedded, collaborative research whereby researchers work hand-in-hand with community participants in order to reveal new perspectives […]
