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 […]
New Report Finds Social Science Key Ingredient in Innovation Recipe
A new report from Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences argues that the key to success for physical science and technology research is a healthy helping of relevant social science.
Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences Names 47 New Fellows
Forty-seven leading social scientists have been named to the Autumn 2023 cohort of fellows for Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences.
The We Society Explores Intersectionality and Single Motherhood
In a recently released episode of The We Society podcast, Ann Phoenix, a psychologist at University College London’s Institute of Education, spoke […]
Will Hutton on the State of Social Science
Political economist and journalist Will Hutton, author of the influential 1995 book The State We’re In, offers a state-of-the-field report on the social sciences in this Social Science Bites podcast.
UK’s Academy of Social Sciences Names 47 Fellows for Spring 2022
On March 1 Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences conferred fellowships on 47 social scientists selected through an independent peer review.
Watch the Lecture: It’s Institutions Stupid: The Moralisation of Capitalism
The Campaign for Social Science and SAGE Publishing’s jointly sponsored annual lecture for 2021 featured political economist, author and columnist Will Hutton, […]
UK’s Academy of Social Sciences Names 75 Fellows for Autumn 2021
Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences has named 75 social scientists from the academic, public, private and third sectors as Fellows of the […]
Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences Urges UK Government to Restore Foreign Research Aid
The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) strongly urges the UK government to reinstate funding for UKRI’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), the Newton Fund and university QR funding for GCRF, to meet its existing commitments.
