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 […]
Reviewing a SSHRC-Award Effort to Connect Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge
Today, writes Carole Lévesque, we rightly insist on the importance of researchers favoring the co-production of knowledge. Research is done with Indigenous people, not on Indigenous people.
Don’t Mistake Cruelty for Rigor in Peer Review
The authors – all journal editors -believe that feedback given in peer review should be rigorous, but will be more readily incorporated if kindly given, to the advancement of science.
Political Scientists Explain Why Gun Legislation Always Stalls in US Congress
Political scientists Monika McDermott and David Jones help readers understand why further restrictions never pass, despite a majority of Americans supporting tighter gun control laws.
As a Black Sociologist and a Mom, What I’ve Learned Listening to Other Black Moms During Pandemic
Loren Henderson describes her work with BarBara Scott as part of a small body of descriptive research, mostly by researchers of color, countering negativity and victim-blaming in earlier studies of Black families.
Indigenous Societies and the True Value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Recent studies have underscored that conservationists can learn a lot from traditional ecological knowledge about successful resource management.
‘Belonging’ on Campus: Three Ways to Make it So
Michelle Samura doesn’t question that belonging on campus is an important consideration. Rather, she suggests that people question generally accepted ways of talking about belonging.
Patients Can Benefit When Psychologists Open Up About Their Own Mental Illnesses
the authors’ research finds that, far from being immune to the conditions they treat in others, psychologists grapple with mental health difficulties or illnesses just as much as their patients do.
Explaining Why Men Kill Women Is a Harder Question Than Many Think
The author warns that policies intended to prevent intimate partner femicide should not become narrowly focused around gendered factors such as men’s attitudes to women and toxic masculinity.
