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 […]
September 17, 2021
AERA Lecture: The Inevitability of Racial Bias and Exclusion
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Decisnormaitizing and Decolonizing the University Experience and Curriculum
What can we as university professors and administrators, asks Stephanie Jirard, do to decisnormatize and decolonize our institutions?
Resources to Mark International Transgender Day of Visibility
This post several collects resources that have appeared on Social Science Space centered on trans issues, including a webinar recording on the state of trans studies occasioned by the 2021 publication of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies.
The Worst Academic Field to be a Woman in?
There is no shortage of disciplines and industries rife with sexism. The STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – are particularly well known for their misogynistic […]
Integrity at a Crossroads: Protecting U.S. Science From the Next Trump
How can we ensure that, when power shifts again, the U.S. government remains fundamentally grounded in empirical reality and committed to pursuing policies that are informed by the best available science?
Consumption Does Not Equate to Happiness
We all want stuff, but in our overdeveloped, fast-paced culture we seldom challenge ourselves to ask ourselves the one important question: how much is enough?
We Know More Than What is Measured About Gender Inequality in Academia
In academia gender bias is often figured in terms of research productivity and differentials surrounding the academic work of men and women. Alesia Zuccala and Gemma Derrick posit that this outlook inherently ignores a wider set of variables impacting women, and that attempts to achieve cultural change in academia can only be realised, by acknowledging variables that are ultimately difficult to quantify.
Can We Have Open Science Where No Scholar Is Left Behind?
While the dominant model of open access using article processing charges lowers financial barriers for readers, it has erected a new paywall at the other end of the pipeline, blocking access to publication for less-privileged authors.
View From South Africa: Complexity Theory and University Leadership
Cyrill Walters investigated the current styles of leadership in South African higher education institutions and has developed a model of the primary competencies leaders need.
