Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Eighth Edition of ‘The Evidence’: How Sexist Abuse Undermines Political Representation
In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge explores rising levels of abuse directed towards women in politics, spotlighting research […]
Webinar: Banned Books Week 2024
As book bans and academic censorship escalate across the United States, this free hour-long webinar gathers experts to discuss the impact these […]
2024 SSRC Katznelson Fellow Lecture: The Economist as Plumber
In this Social Science Research Council Katznelson Fellow Lecture, Nobel Prize-winner Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will share her […]
Research Assessment, Scientometrics, and Qualitative v. Quantitative Measures
The creation of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) has led to a heated debate on the balance between peer review and evaluative metrics in research assessment regimes. Luciana Balboa, Elizabeth Gadd, Eva Mendez, Janne Pölönen, Karen Stroobants, Erzsebet Toth Cithra and the CoARA Steering Board address these arguments and state CoARA’s commitment to finding ways in which peer review and bibliometrics can be used together responsibly.
AERA Brown Lecture: Brown v. Board of Education and the Democratic Ideals
Brown v. Board of Education is one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in United States history. But how should we […]
Paper to Advance Debate on Dual-Process Theories Genuinely Advanced Debate
Psychologists Jonathan St. B. T. Evans and Keith E. Stanovich have a history of publishing important research papers that resonate for years.
Growing up Digital: How Today’s Youth Navigate Life on Screens and at School
Ten years ago, Danah Boyd introduced the concept of ‘networked teens’ to explain how social media expanded youth connectivity. In this free talk, […]
Utilizing Academic-Practitioner Partnering for Societal Impact
In this article, co-authors Natalie Slawinski, Bruna Brito, Jennifer Brenton, and Wendy Smith reflect on the inspiration behind their research article, “Reflections on deep academic–practitioner partnering for generative societal impact,” published in Strategic Organization.
