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 […]
Coronavirus Crisis Putting UK Nudging to the Test
If the promises of behavioral science can be believed, the UK government’s use of it would potentially minimize economic disruption while still tackling the crisis. This is because, in theory, behavioral science can achieve desirable behaviors without significantly impacting other day-to-day activities. However, the question is whether in practice behavioral science is helping to mitigate disaster.
COVID, the Census, and the Looming University Undercount
Counties with large universities depend heavily on student responses to the decennial census, because the census counts determine the levels of federal funding communities receive. And if those students are counted as being there …?
Behavior Changed, Yes, But Only After COVID Was At Doorstep
Research explains the relatively late behavioral reaction to the information of COVID-19 in Europe, writes Joan Costa-Font
AAPSS Awards Economist William Nordhaus 2020 Moynihan Prize
William Nordhaus, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who was the first macroeconomist to seriously consider how climate can be influenced by human behavior and that human action and economic policy can influence climate, will receive the 2020 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize.
The Best Laid Plans… Qualitative Research Design During COVID-19
In this moment of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas of emergent design and researcher and design responsiveness take on new meaning and import; they can serve, methods expert Sharon Ravitch argues, to connect more traditional qualitative methods with participatory frameworks and critical and humanizing methodologies.
LSE Impact: Social Science in a Time of Social Distancing
Social science, argues Michael Taster of the LSE Impact blog, has an important role to play, by directly contributing to policy surrounding COVID-19 and its impacts, but also by acting as a critical friend, which raises the urgent question: how can this wealth of knowledge and expertise best be communicated?
How to Stay Connected in a Time of Physical Distancing
Psychological scientists at the University of Washington’s Center for the Science of Social Connection draw from their clinical and research experiences help us understand the side effects of social distancing and suggest strategies for addressing them.
Free Webinar, March 26: “All You Need to Know to Support Academics with Text Mining”
Join SAGE Ocean’s latest webinar, hosted by Dr. Daniela Duca, to learn all you need to know for supporting academics with text mining, and hear from the perspective of other librarians, researchers and start-ups who create text mining tools.
