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 […]
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.
‘Suck it Up’ is Not The Right Answer to an Avalanche of Rejection
Persistent rejection by academic arbiters – whether journals, grant makers or employers – is problematic, and focusing on the individual academic is not the whole solution
Behind the Scenes: ‘The Golden Age of Social Science’
Some of the most challenging problems facing our world, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, require not just one field of expertise but […]
2021: From Scholars to Disposable Labor in the Brave New World of Academic Capitalism
In terms of the organization of academic labor, higher education is ever more sharply divided between, on the one hand, an advantaged minority in full-time, long-term employment and, on the other hand, academia’s reserve army of labor.
Video: Leadership During COVID-19
One of the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, argues social psychologist S. Alex Haslam, are many traditional views of leadership. In this […]
Asking Questions, Analyzing Outcomes: Alondra Nelson and the Betterment of Society
A look at the career of Alonda Nelson, who is now essentially the national adviser for social and behavioral sciences in the United States.
GameStop: A Story Without Heroes (or Villains)
In the battle between the army of renegade Reddit retail traders and Wall Street’s hedge funds over unloved stocks like the Texan computer games retail chain GameStop, there has been a serious case of mistaken accusations on both sides. They are both being wrongly accused of manipulating the markets, but they are not.
