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 […]
COVID Can Change How We See and Use Research
In the wake of COVID-19, researchers can become trusted figures of authority who can purposely use their institutional privilege and re-appropriate their research networks, skills and knowledge to better the lives of vulnerable populations during a pandemic.
Free Webinar on Switching to Online Teaching
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, many universities around the world switched to online teaching and remote learning both at scale and […]
10 Tips for Spotting Misinformation Online
It’s tempting to blame bots and trolls for spreading misinformation. But really it’s our own fault for sharing so widely. Research has confirmed that lies spread faster than truth – mainly because lies are not bound to the same rules as truth.
The Importance of Cultural and Social Awareness in Building LGBTQI Families
Marni Brown found herself pondering, “Why does race matter in this selection process and why do lesbians, in general, want their offspring to look like them? Is the desire for our children to look like us actuality a cover-up for racially driven decisions that perpetuate inequality in already marginalized communities?”
Yale’s James Scott to Receive SSRC’s Hirschman Prize
Political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott, co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University and a self-described “mediocre farmer,” has received the 2020 Albert O. Hirschman Prize from the Social Science Research Council.
The Price of ‘Paying Your Debt to Society’ Extends Well Beyond Incarceration
here’s a fact Cynthia Golembeski learned while researching criminal justice reform and teaching college classes in prisons: the reason the transition to life outside the corrections system is so hard is that there are more than 44,000 indirect consequences of a criminal conviction.
Coronavirus UK – Could We Live With a ‘Second Influenza’?
Six months into this pandemic, we have learned that it is not going to wipe out human life on this planet. This means, argues Robert Dingwall, that it is time for a public policy reset.
Self and Social: An Interview About Autoethnography
Janet Salmons, the methods guru at our sister site MethodSapce, interviewed Dr. Peter Gloviczki about his use of autoethnographic methods.
