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 […]
In Defense of the Trigger Warning
A literature professor who has offered ‘trigger warnings’ to students argues that the warnings are designed to open up a discussion of difficult material – not suppress it.
In Post-Brexit Britain, is Migration a Crime?
With the increasing indications that Britain is growing colder to migrants in the wake of Brexit, Daniel Nehring asks what that means specifically for academics from the European Union in the UK.
A Short History of Contested Presidential Elections
Noting that one candidate has been claiming the upcoming U.S. presidential vote is ‘rigged,’ our Washington-based blogger takes a look at the ways that past presidential elections have been less than clear-cut, and that ways in which the system bent to accommodate a peaceful transfer of power.
Anna Machin on Romance
Anna Machin’s research combine the study of neurochemistry, dating sites and waist-to-hip ratios to gives us the best understanding of the evolution of love and romance. In this Social science Bites podcast she details her research interests and findings.
Four New Members to Join the National Science Board
President Obama intends to name four new members to the 25-member National Science Board, including social scientist Emilio F. Moran, the White […]
Mary Ellen O’Connell Promoted to Head DBASSE
Mary Ellen O’Connell has been appointed as the executive director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, or DBASSE, […]
Explaining Donald Trump’s Hold on Many White Voters
New research conducted earlier in the current U.S. presidential campaign confirms the role that racial anxiety is playing for many white voters.
ESRC Launches 2017 Celebrating Impact Prize
For a fifth year, Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council is bestowing its Celebrating Impact Prize, six awards which recognize ESRC-affiliated researchers and other ESRC associates who have had outstanding economic or societal impact.
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