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 […]
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.
The Campaign to re-brand the social scientist – The public re-construction of a diverse discipline
Re-posted from the Campaign for the Social Sciences The social sciences are vital in understanding the social world but unlike the natural […]
Social science’s huge contribution to UK national life recognised in honours list
The Campaign for Social Science has issued this press release today. The huge contribution social scientists make to national life has once […]
“UK social science is the best in the world”, says leading academic
“UK social science is the best in the world,” said Professor Michael Harloe of the Campaign for Social Science. Speaking to a […]
Campaign for Social Science: Press Officer
The Academy of Social Sciences is looking to recruit a press officer to work on the recently launched Campaign for Social Science […]
Academy in today’s Guardian: Social scientists explain many things – but can they explain themselves?
In the Guardian today, the Academy of Social Sciences’ public engagement officer, Kate Roach, takes on Nick Cohen’s point on social science […]
