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 […]
Common Identity, Humanity, and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
“Wearing a mask is a sign of respect.” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, May 12th 2020 In the first chapter of this […]
Prejudice, Discrimination, and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
For the people that are now out of work because of the important and necessary containment policies, for instance the shutting down […]
Societal Polarization and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
This virus is dangerous. It exploits cracks between us. … Take as an example, ideology, or in one country it could be […]
Inequality and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
Social distancing is a privilege. It means you live in a house large enough to practice it. Hand washing is a privilege […]
Remembering Ken Robinson, Apostle of Creativity in Education
Ken Robinson, the revered and prolific evangelist for connecting education with the arts, died August 21 of cancer. He was 70. As Social Science Space prepares a full obituary, we repost an account of Robinson’s appearance to help mark SAGE Publishing’s 50th year in 2015; SAGE is the parent of Social Science Space.
Instilling a Higher Sense of Purpose in Business Education
For all the talk of social consciousness at academic conferences, personal wealth remains the imprimatur of business success par excellence. How then, we asked ourselves, can business schools expect their students to take ethics and social responsibility truly seriously?
Risks of Institutional Capture in University Decolonization, And How to Create Meaningful Change
As conversations around decolonization in universities are being afforded greater urgency, some key risks of this institutional capture or inertia to wider decolonization efforts are described by Rima Saini.
Open Letter Defends Social Science, Humanities in Wake of Pandemic
This week, almost 60 learned societies, associations and higher-education serving groups signed onto an open letter that argues “humanistic education and scholarship must remain central to campus communities and conversations.”
