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 […]
What Does Social Science Predict for the Powerball Winner?
The answer sadly, is ruin. But if you’ve already beaten the odds once, maybe you can do so again …
Janet Carsten on the Kinship of Anthropology
One of the leading exponents of what might be called the second coming of kinship studies, Janet Carsten, a professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, has (literally) brought new blood into the field, exploring kinship’s nexus with politics, work and gender.
Business Journals Say They Will Publish ‘Null’ Results
In a joint statement, 10 editors representing some of the academia’s most prestigious journals for management, organisational behavior and work psychology research, have vowed to publish research that fails to prove a hypotheses.
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Rebecca Wheeler
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 Rebecca Wheeler’s hopes that applied cognitive psychology can and should improve policing.
Book Review: Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians
Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians. Catherine P. Mulder; New York and London: Routledge, 2009, xiii + 147 […]
About Time: How Temporal Construal Changes Customer Satisfaction
Time works wonders–it’s a familiar saying that speaks to the fluid nature of an individual’s experiences, and how, as time passes, perceptions […]
Avoiding Fetishism in the Study of Entrepreneurship
[We’re pleased to welcome Bill McKelvey of the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. McKelvey recently published an article in Journal of […]
Follow the Leader: Leadership Lessons from Rock Climbing
Although the concept of ethical leadership has not been neglected in leadership studies, it remains a vague and poorly defined idea. A direct […]
