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 […]
Oliver Laasch Debut Guest on Business and Management Webinar Series
A new webinar series sponsored by SAGE Publishing – the parent of Social Science Space and Business and Management INK – features […]
Is Science Communication Training Worth the Candle?
Most science communication training programs query participants and get positive responses. But more probing research has shown that students consistently overestimate how well they perform.
AERA Offers Summer Series of Professional Development Courses
For a second summer, the American Educational Research Association is offering a series of online courses for researchers on using data, software and productivity tools in research.
Why Social Science? Leaders Need to Know How to Lead with Evidence
Being bad at math can kill people. Even experts who should understand medical science and help us make good health decisions sometimes […]
Webinars: Connecting Public Scholarship with U.S. Government
This June, the Federation of Associations for Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in collaboration with the Scholars Strategy Network, are offering a webinar series on public scholarship.
Why Social Science? Understanding How We Talk about Asian Americans
Just over two months ago, a white male entered three Asian-owned spas in the Atlanta area, and in the ensuing carnage, took […]
Threading the Needle: Balancing Core Values in Servicescapes
How can service providers serve both customers’ security and their need for autonomy? In a study of the nursing homes, the authors tackle that question.
Event: Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
For the first time, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences – Canada’s largest industry event and one of most comprehensive […]
