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 […]
The Positive Aspects of Silence in Team Meetings
Authors Miikka J. Lehtonen and Valérie M. Saintot argue that we need more refined methodological approaches for studying silence
America’s DataHub Consortium: Seeing — and Understanding — the Entire Elephant
We live in the information age. So where are all the answers? A new data science consortium led by NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics wants to reveal the answers and evidence hidden in a sea of federally compartmentalized data.
European Scientists Fear Data Protection Overreach
Raising the drumbeat of alarm before a final European Parliament ruling later this year, a coalition of the continent’s research organizations have made explicit their opposition to new rules that they say would impede social science and medical research.
Human Progress – A new free research tool with a lot of potential
The Human Progress website is a meticulously created and managed database that steadily follows and documents human progress. It is a free research tool that saddles the line between our normal pessimistic outlooks and that of a more optimistic reality
(Maintaining quality in) social research in straitened times
Patrick Sturgis, University of Southampton, National Centre for Research Methods speaking at the SRA Summer Event in July SRAsummerevent Patrick Sturgiss (ps1r07 […]
