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 […]
An Introduction to Social Influence and COVID: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
Efforts to influence people loom large in a pandemic. In particular, there is a demand for effective leadership which explains what is […]
COVID and Conspiracy Theories: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
It is to get rid of non-productive Chinese in the Chinese community, who are non-productive and in the words of George Bernard […]
Behavior Change Amid COVID: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
On March 11th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement confirming that COVID-19 was a pandemic. WHO experts advised that […]
Compliance and Followership During COVID: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
COVID-19 has posed a significant challenge, with whole nations striving to coordinate their activities in response to the pandemic. In the process, […]
Leadership and Identity in Combating COVID: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
Since COVID-19 first began spreading around the world, there have been myriad examples of leadership that has not only motivated people to […]
Free Webinar: Having Conversations About Race in the Classroom
Stephanie A. Jirard, professor of criminal justice at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and author of Criminal Law and Procedure: A Courtroom Approach, […]
Allies As Drivers of LGBTQ Inclusion
Noting the value of straight and cisgender allies in LGBTQ inclusion effort, David Glasgow describes his NYU center’s model for a three-stage process of developing allyship.
The Future of Precarious Work
In 2009, American Sociological Review published Arne L. Kalleberg’s “Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition,” in which he explores the various ways unpredictable work impacts employees. Over 10 years later, sociologists actively turn to and build upon his work and the suggested structural changes needed to create more stable conditions.
