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 […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Elizabeth Houghton
Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Elizabeth Houghton’s examination of how more universal access to higher education could chip away at entrenched racial divides.
Why Is It Again that the US Doesn’t Study Gun Violence?
The dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health argues that the relatively limited data the United States’ has available about firearms and firearm violence prevents any serious policy prescriptions from arising. A law that prevents the CDC from funding research that might support gun control has scared all federal funders from touching the issue.
The Mash of Cultures: Integration and Mixedness
At a time when the differences between cultures seem increasingly unbridgeable, what does the latest scholarship about intermarriage and integration tell us about how to improve sociocultural relations and social cohesion? The editor of a special issue of ‘The ANNALS of the AAPSS’ offers some ideas …
Book Review: Voice and Involvement at Work: Experience with Non-Union Representation
Voice and Involvement at Work: Experience with Non-Union Representation. Edited by Paul J. Gollan, Bruce E. Kaufman, Daphne Taras, Adrian Wilkinson . […]
Machiavellian and Motivated: How Managers Can Turn Employee Selfishness into Pro-Organization Behavior
Machiavelli famously argued that it is best to be both loved and feared, which is all good and well for a hypothetical […]
ResearchGate Score: Good Example of a Bad Metric
Remember that call for a ‘Bad Metric’ prize in the recent ‘The Metric Tide’ report? Peter Kraker, Katy Jordan and Elisabeth Lex take a closer look at one particularly opaque metric, the ResearchGate Score, and suggest they’ve found a real contender.
Does Blind Peer Review Require a Makeover?
This piece was originally posted in Management INK, a SAGE blog highlighting top scholarship and catering to academics, researchers and practitioners in the […]
Who Do (Some) Faculty Reject OA? An Archived Webinar
This archived podcast and extended question-and-answer session first appeared at SAGE Connection. *** Why do some researchers choose to publish in open […]
