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 […]
NIH: Exploring the Publication Gap Between Social/Behavioral and Biomedical Research
Behavioral and social science grant recipients from America’s National Institutes of Health appear to have not published their results within five years at a greater rate than for their non-behavioral peers. An NIH director investigated …
HEPI Report Examines Conversation Universities Should Have With Media
In the new HEPI report, “Mixed Media: what universities need to know about journalists so they can get a better press”, veteran journalist Rosemary Bennett addresses the universities’ routine silence in public discussion of education and what they should do to rectify that.
World Anthropology Day: What Anthropology Can Teach Us During COVID-19?
With a virus running rampant across the world, the value of a global perspective becomes obvious: We must remember to observe the nuances of cultural and historical contexts […]
The Comfort of Strangers
David Canter considers how disasters and tragedies can bring out the best in what it means to be human, and sometimes the worst.
Consumption Does Not Equate to Happiness
We all want stuff, but in our overdeveloped, fast-paced culture we seldom challenge ourselves to ask ourselves the one important question: how much is enough?
Video: Inequality During COVID-19
“COVID has put a magnifying glass on existing inequalities,” says Jolanda Jetten, a professor of social psychology at the University of Queensland, “and it’s clear that the degree of suffering is unfairly on the shoulders of the poorer groups in societies, and also the poorest countries in this world.”
Webinar: Research Ethics in Practice
Ethical research involves much more than a pre-study review or forms to explain how the study adheres to the institution’s rules about […]
UK’s Academy of Social Sciences Names 37 Fellows for Spring 2021
Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences has named 37 individuals in its spring 2021 cohort of fellows. New fellows are recognized, after an independent peer review process, for the excellence and impact of their work and their wider contributions to the social sciences for public benefit.
