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 […]
Are Junk Food Sales in U.S. schools Responsible for Childhood Obesity?
Between the early 1970s and late 2000s, the percentage of obese children in the United States tripled. This trend is often attributed to the types and amounts of foods and drinks available to children, including those offered for sale in schools.
The Hidden Costs of the Prison Boom for the Mental Health of Women
In a recent article in the American Sociological Review, sociologists have uncovered a sprawling mental health cost to the massive and rapid increase in incarceration in the United States.
Contemporary politics as conflicts of voice
Politics today in Britain is marked by conflicts between claims to extend or defend voice, some of them deeply misleading. UK Health […]
The Implications of Childhood Obesity
“Childhood Obesity, Academic Achievement, and School Expenditures”, by Tami Gurley-Calvez and Amy Higginbotham, both of West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, was the […]
Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, […]
100 years of social research
Reposted from Methodspace: a summary of the NatCen Informing Public Policy New Agendas for Social Research Conference (23-24 April 2009) Abstract: A […]
