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 […]
Seminar Links Social and Behavioral Insights on COVID with Policy
On October 9, a free online symposium will bring together social and behavioral science researchers in the United States whose work can inform public policies related to the pandemic with policymakers and public servants who are crafting and enacting legislation and other responses to COVID-19.
Excerpt from ‘What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It’
Alvaro de Menard, which we accept as the nom de blog of a non-academic “independent researcher of dubious nature” and who is […]
Innovating Service Design Meant Adding Value at the End of Life
Figuring out how to do service research with a very special population – but one we will all be part of eventually — was a challenge met by the creators of Trajectory Touchpoint Technique.
Bill Freund, 1944-2020: Inquisitive and Elegant Scholar on African Historiography
University of KwaZulu-Natal Professor Emeritus William Mark Freund, the economic, social, political, and development historian, died suddenly at his home in Durban, […]
Social Science, STEM and Career Skills: Not ‘Either/Or’ But ‘Both/And’
As Lina Ashour has recently written, SAGE Publishing has helped make possible a report by the UK’s Campaign for Social Science on […]
What’s Wrong with Peer Review?
Academic capitalism exhibit a lack of transparency and accountability where it truly matters. Peer review and the ways in which journals often handle peer reviews are one key site of such intransparency and unaccountability.
Webinar: Tools for Coding Qualitative Data
After conducting qualitative interviews, how do you analyze and make sense of the data? Join a free online tutorial to get an […]
Why Social Science? To Help Dismantle White Supremacy
A half-century of increasingly sophisticated research (e.g., on early childhood interventions, residential segregation, and neighborhood effects) and conceptual advances (e.g., critical race theory, intergroup relations, and stereotype threat) have given the country a much deeper understanding of inequality’s causes and consequences.
