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 […]
Watch the Lecture: Like Wildfire – How Climate Justice Should Change Disaster Response
As climate change advances, communities across the United States are adapting to the increased threat of wildfires. Such disasters are expected to […]
Why Social Science? Because Vaccination is a Human—Not Technical—Process
Leveraging the sociocultural dimensions of health knowledge, not a technical focus, is what will move the needle on vaccine uptake.
Going Around in Circles with Long COVID
Readers of Social Science Space may recall that Dr. Jeremy Devine suddenly became the best-know psychiatry resident North America when he published […]
In Praise of Those ‘Less Prestigious’ Journals
Shannon Mason and Margaret K. Merga argue that researchers should adopt more careful citation practices, as a means to broaden and contextualise what counts as ‘prestigious’ research and create a more equitable publishing environment for research outside of core anglophone countries.
NAS Outlines Successes of Societal Experts Action Network
SEAN, the Societal Experts Action Network, taps scientists in the social, behavioral and economic sciences to provide actionable and evidence-based recommendations to support local, state, and national responses and policies quickly.
New Report Offers Roadmap for Impactful Business School Research
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business has released, “Research That Matters: An Action Plan for Creating Business School Research That Positively Impacts Society.”
October 14: Free Workshop Focuses on Social Science and University-Industry Collaboration
Academic social and behavioral science, when it looks outside of the ivory tower, often focuses on policy implications and thus government and […]
Getting a Handle on Both Societal and Scientific Impact
In this post, Jorrit Smit and Laurens Hessels, draw on a recent analysis of different impact evaluation tools to explore how they constitute and direct conceptions of research impact. Finding a common separation between evaluation focused on scientific and societal impact, they suggest bridging this divide may prove beneficial to producing research that has public value, rather than research that achieves particular metrics.
