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 […]
Don’t Sideline Social Science in Mad Dash for Innovation
As Australia’s government focuses on innovation and commercializing research in its academic agenda, it should not forget about the humanities, arts and social sciences.
Don’t Forget Academe When Decrypting Mystery of Radicalization
The recent tragedies in Beirut, Paris and now San Bernardino reinforce the need for including the insights of scholars into efforts to understand motivations and curtail violence.
World Bank Unveils Its Own ‘Nudge Unit’
The Global Insights Initiative, with its intriguing acronym of GINI, will bring experimentation to the World Bank’s poverty-fighting efforts by incorporating behavioral and social science into its project design and evaluation.
Top 10 Ways Businesses and Academics Interact
The social sciences are catching up with other departments in helping shape businesses, writes Patrick Dunleavy, the general editor of the LSE’s new Business Review blog..
AllTrials Opens Curtains on Clinical Trials
The AllTrials campaign, which asks clinical researchers to register their trials and then release all the data gained, has come to the United States.
Funding Social Science: A Primer on US Budgeting Process
Howard Silver examines the process in which federal research funding is arrived at — and points out how the process is, or isn’t, working in this Congress.
Three Countries, Three Methods to Preserve Social Science
A recent panel drew social science advocates from three countries – Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States – to the same stage to discuss preserving the disciplines’ sometimes tenuous hold on support from policymakers
Tomorrow’s Britain Needs Social Science Today, Report Argues
The Campaign for Social Science is asking the British government-to-be for a greater recognition of social science, arguing that the nation’s future prosperity will depend on it.
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