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 […]
How Coca-Cola Uses Social Media to Promote Corporate Social Initiatives
What is the most effective way for companies to implement corporate social marketing (CSM)? In the Social Marketing Quarterly article “Examining Public Response to […]
Harvesting the Opportunities in Psychology, Open Science and Government
In this column from the Association for Psychological Science, David Yokum, a leader of the Obama administration’s Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, details what that nudge team has been doing.
Sometimes a Nudge is as Good as a Wink
When it comes to many of the big decisions faced by governments – and the private sector – behavioral science has more to offer than simple nudges.
Do New Sports Facilities Prompt New Business in Local Communities?
How well do new sports facilities promote economic growth in a community? Recently published in the Journal of Sports Economics, the article “Do New Sports […]
The UK’s HE Landscape in the Wake of ‘Knowledge Economy’
The new government report ‘Succeeding as a Knowledge Economy’ takes forward most of the ideas about improving teaching at Britain institutions of higher education already found in a green paper published in November 2015. So what does this new report tell us about the future?
China’s Xi: More Social Science, But With More Socialism
Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the primacy of philosophy and social science in building a strong China, but he also said the disciplines must retain and enhance ‘Chinese characteristics’ like Marxism in the process.
Understanding Vocational Education in Industrialized Countries
[We’re pleased to welcome Nuria Rodriguez-Planas. Nuria published an article in ILR Review in March 2015, entitled “A Road Map to Vocational […]
Response to Nehring: What’s the Point of British Sociology?
Rebutting Daniel Nehring’s recent post asking if sociology still matters in Britain, Robert Dingwall responds that sociology does have a good story to tell about itself, even in the age of austerity.
