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 28, 2015
Are Authentic Leadership and Fairness Connected?
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Improving Together: Action Learning in a Network
[We’re pleased to welcome comments from David Coghlan and Paul Coughlan, both of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Their paper “Effecting Change and […]
What Do Sociology Students Read?
Just as scholarship now is more and more about the generation of economic benefits, for many studying is now less about ‘reading for a degree’ than about ‘getting a degree,’ suggests Daniel Nehring.
Mental Health and Work: Employee Engagement, Part 1 of 3
Results from the U.S. National Co-morbidity Survey, a nationally representative study of Americans ages 15 to 54, reported that 18% of those […]
NSF Funding Bill Report Includes Two Curious Items
UPDATED, While the FY2015 funding bill for science includes a record budget for the NSF, two paragraphs in the document are raising red flags in the social and behavioral science community.
Whither Violence?
Professor David Canter comments on Britain’s downward trend in violence and examines some of the factors that may underlie it besides a more expensive pint.
NSF Boss Finds Friendly Reception in Appropriations Panel
Concerns about Chinese advances and US education declines, not internecine disputes between academic disciplines, marked the Hill debut of the agency-requested budget for the National Science Foundation.
Is Evolutionary Psychology ‘Real’ Science? One Unhappy Take
Christopher Scanlon, an associate dean at La Trobe University, argues that evolutionary psychologists’ efforts to determine if people are ‘wired for happiness’ are faces some tall obstacles if they want their work to be considered scientific..
UPDATED: FIRST Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle
A bill that would dramatically reduce the amount of money that the federal government spends on social science research advanced after passing in a House of Representatives subcommittee on a party-line vote this morning.
