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 […]
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.
Prone to Pressure: How Stakeholders Endanger the Independence of Evaluations and What We Can Do Against it
It’s self-evident that the independence of any evaluation, and the integrity of its findings, is paramount. Yet there’s a a clear threat to the integrity of many evaluations: pressure from the stakeholders who hired the evaluator.
Black History and the Myth of Mary Seacole
In what he describes as the obverse of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, Robert Dingwall argues that the secular sainthood conferred on Mary Seacole steps on historical scholarship and ignores more genuine exemplars.
Disparate Measures – Improving the Assessments of Perfectionism
A special issue of the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment takes a comprehensive look at the history of measuring perfectionism and the strides being made in developing better ways to assess striving for excellence and its pernicious cousin, striving for perfection..
