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 […]
Viewing 2024 Economics Nobel Through Lens of Colonialism’s Impact on Institutions
This year’s Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and […]
NSF Seeks Input on Research Ethics
In a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter released September 9, the NSF issued a ‘request for information,’ or RFI, from those interested in research ethics.
Trippin’ Forward: Management Research and the Development of Psychedelics
Charlie Smith reflects on his interest in psychedelic research, the topic of his research article, “Psychedelics, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Employees’ Wellbeing,” published in Journal of Management Inquiry.
Seventh Edition of ‘The Evidence’: The Rise of Unsafe Abortions after Roe v Wade
In this month’s edition of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge explores reproductive rights after the end of Roe v Wade, highlighting research on the potentially unsafe methods used in self-managed abortions.
The Perils of (Even Very Minor) Celebrity
David Canter considers the confusions inherent in being (even very moderately) well-known. That has implications for the considerably greater misinformation that gets linked to those who are very well-known indeed.
Using Video Data Analysis in the 21st Century
In 2011, anti-government protests and uprisings erupted in Northern Africa and the Middle East in what is often called the “Arab Spring.” […]
The Decameron Revisited – Pandemic as Farce
After viewing the the televised version of the The Decameron, our Robert Dingwall asks what the farce set during the Black Death says about a more recent pandemic.
Turning Real-Life Drama into Scholarly Insight: Lessons from the Wild Boars Rescue
Co-authors Amélie Cloutier and Andrew Webb reflect on the inspiration behind their recently published academic article – the rescue of a soccer team from a cave in Thailand.
