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 British Academy recently published a guide for students encouraging those studying the humanities and social sciences to become statistically savvy.
With larger data sets offering researchers the potential to look at more subtle interactions, big data is becoming increasingly valuable to social sciences, yet challenges remain.
This week is the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science, an event that takes place all over the UK where social scientists get […]
A document drops into my inbox that purports to be a draft Concordat between the major UK funders and university managements on research integrity – a publication that has already been set for July 2012, but someone belatedly thought that it might be a good idea to get disciplinary associations on board.
Here’s a quick link to the recently launched ESRC video, ‘Celebrating the social sciences’
Now in its ninth year, the Festival of Social Science has become an annual event in the calendar of many academics. Amy […]
UK Government and research funding agencies are pursuing a strategy of focusing and concentrating the funding of social science research into a […]
Perri 6, Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, has produced a detailed analysis of the implications of concentrating doctoral training […]