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 […]
Do Asian-American parents push their kids?
Does the Tiger Mother get it right? While some view Asian-Americans as pushy, stressing their children into exceptional achievement, research doesn’t bear […]
Ideas and analysis – what politicians want from social scientists
Interview with Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Science & Policy. Kelvin Hopkins is MP for Luton North and Chair of […]
Research Ethics and James Bond
It is not often, as a middle aged academic, that I get to feel like James Bond – but there is something about […]
Interview with Richard Bartholomew – Joint head of the Government Social Research Service
It is important that government policy is supported by the best evidence possible, and this is as true in the area of […]
Making the Case For the Social Sciences no.1: Wellbeing
Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by the Academy of Social Sciences, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research […]
Ethics of research with young children
When we involve young children in our research, there are the usual things we well know that we must attend to – […]
SAGE and the British Academy: the Crucial Role of Social Science
A debate held in London on 16th March 2010 as part of the ESRC festival of social science. Co-hosted by SAGE and […]
(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 […]
