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 […]
People are not Only Biological Machines
You can hardly open a newspaper or listen to a factual broadcast without some reference to neuroscience or evolutionary explanations of things that people do, feel or think.
Real Facts, Real Issues: Role-Play in the Management Classroom
It’s not every management course that has students requesting an exam, explaining that they want to come to class prepared to reap […]
The State of Social Science: only itself to blame?
Both society and government rely on social science a great deal, and those who criticise it for what they see as its failure to predict events have misunderstood the nature of the knowledge it can produce.
Tackling a Wicked Management Problem
A new study in SAGE Open makes no bones about climate change as a wicked management problem. Urging a dynamic approach, the […]
Rio +20: JED Special Issue
The Journal of Environment & Development (JED), which was recently selected for coverage in the Social Science Citation Index, has released the […]
Have the Social Sciences Failed Us?
On 16 April, Aditya Chakrabortty wrote an article for the Guardian’s Comment is Free, arguing that social scientists have failed to step up and offer alternatives in the wake of the economic crisis. Here, Andrew Gamble FBA responds.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Special issue on trade union cultures, the effect of stress on child brain development, and ecosystem-based adaption in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Campaign for Social Science: Promoting the Social Sciences to the Public, Media, and Parliament
In January 2011, the Campaign for Social Science was launched in the House of Lords. One year on Cary Cooper, Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, spoke to socialsciencespace about the first year of the campaign and its plans for the future.
