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 […]
Computational Social Science Takes on Anti-Black Racism
SICSS-Howard/Mathematica will have a topical focus on countering anti-Black racism and inequity and the program will focus on helping participants build the tools to accomplish this.
Video: Two Psychologies of COVID-19
In this 44-minute video, Stephen Reicher addresses what he sees as the two psychologies of COVID, working through the lens of social identity theory.
Teaching Black Lives Matter Tenets to Shape Humanizing Research and Methods Pedagogy
The 13 principles of Black Lives Matter are the starting point of my qualitative methods courses Researchers, and those who teach them, […]
The Trailblazing Dr. Sadie T.M. Alexander
“I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them […]
If You Hope To Make Great Things Happen, You Have to Learn How to ‘Make Things’ First
Students often are enthused about innovations being developed in the world and the potential impact of creative, productive ideas, but when it comes time to roll up their sleeves they often don’t know what to do.
We Know More Than What is Measured About Gender Inequality in Academia
In academia gender bias is often figured in terms of research productivity and differentials surrounding the academic work of men and women. Alesia Zuccala and Gemma Derrick posit that this outlook inherently ignores a wider set of variables impacting women, and that attempts to achieve cultural change in academia can only be realised, by acknowledging variables that are ultimately difficult to quantify.
Need a Quick Primer on Impeachment or Executive Power? Free Chapters from ‘Congress Reconsidered’
The opening days of the administration of Joe Biden as U.S. president have continued two themes of the last administration: using impeachment […]
How Can We Strengthen the Academic Pipeline?
While Americans have a long way to go until U.S. higher education accurately reflects the country it inhabits and honestly depicts that road that got us here, below are eight organizations working to strengthen the academic pipeline right now.
