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 […]
From Agora to Shopping Mall: Tone-of-Voice Policies, Marketing and the Re-making of British Universities
Tone-of-voice policies raise serious questions about the future of academic freedom in Britain and the extent to which academic labour may come to be subject to the financial and political objectives of the corporate managers that form universities’ leadership.
Remembering the Montreal Massacre, Patricia Allen and the Many Victims of Male Violence
On the 26th anniversary of what has become known as the Montreal Massacre, our Michelle Stack once again commits to confront the ubiquity of interconnected structural violence in its many forms.
Tweet All About It: Using Twitter as an Inexpensive Communication Tool
In recent years, social media has changed the way that companies and customers interact. For many companies, social media platforms like Facebook […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Josephine Go Jefferies
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 Josephine Go Jeffries’ examination of how really Big Data may change life in our budding infocracies.
Tell Us What Scholarly Communication Tools You Use, and Why
There has been a surge of new scholarly communication tools in recent years. But how are researchers incorporating these tools into their research workflows? Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer are attempting to answer that question through a global survey that asks researchers what choices they are making and why.
Positive Communication Improves Group Performance
[We’re pleased to welcome Hassan Abu Bakar of Universiti Utara Malaysia. Dr. Abu Bakar recently published an article with co-author Robert M. […]
Getting All Bibliometric Efforts Onto the Same Page
A recent conference aimed to bridge the gap between the different communities interested in bibliometrics. A key theme was the strong need for more openness and transparency: transparency in research evaluation processes to avoid biases, transparency of algorithms that compute new scores and openness of useful technology.
Don’t Forget Academe When Decrypting Mystery of Radicalization
The recent tragedies in Beirut, Paris and now San Bernardino reinforce the need for including the insights of scholars into efforts to understand motivations and curtail violence.
