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 Sciences SHAPE up to Benefit a Post-Pandemic World
COVID-19 has devastated communities and economies around the world and profoundly changed the ways in which we live and work. Many of […]
Common Identity, Humanity, and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
“Wearing a mask is a sign of respect.” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, May 12th 2020 In the first chapter of this […]
Instilling a Higher Sense of Purpose in Business Education
For all the talk of social consciousness at academic conferences, personal wealth remains the imprimatur of business success par excellence. How then, we asked ourselves, can business schools expect their students to take ethics and social responsibility truly seriously?
5 Ways To Make Your Writing Assignments Better
University life comes with its share of challenges. One of these is writing longer assignments that require higher information, communication and critical […]
Group Threat and COVID: An Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
The biggest threat to the Territory is clear. It is not us, it’s them. Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan We live in a dangerous […]
Carnegie Names 2020 Fellows
Earlier this week the Carnegie Corporation of New York named the 2020 class of 27 Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Each fellow will receive $200,000 to go toward scholarly research over the next two years in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. The anticipated result of each award is a book or major study.
Our Crisis Fatigue Crisis and the Politics of Coronavirus
After two decades that have almost been defined by wave upon wave of crises, argues Matthew Flinders, it’s possible that the public has simply become immune to warnings from politicians and habitually distrustful of their claims.
Frances Perkins Was Ready!
COVID-19 is a threat to the health and safety of us all, but as the congressional debate of the federal stimulus package revealed, it may also present an opportunity to rethink how to best protect workers, the economy, and indeed all the members of our society.
