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 […]
Introducing Journal of Travel Research’s Incoming Editor!
We’re pleased to welcome the incoming editor of Journal of Travel Research Geoffrey Crouch of La Trobe University! Dr. Crouch kindly provided us […]
Is the End of the Lecture in View?
In an attempt to ‘flip the classroom’ the University of Adelaide is phasing out lectures. Will this flip be a flop?
Freedom’s Just Another Word for … Responsibilities
The right of academic freedom are often called upon, but the responsibilities of that same freedom are less often summoned. In the wake of Goffman and Hunt, Bohannan and Stapel, it’s time to rectify that imbalance.
Funding Social Science: A Primer on US Budgeting Process
Howard Silver examines the process in which federal research funding is arrived at — and points out how the process is, or isn’t, working in this Congress.
Marcia Simmering on the Detection of Common Method Variance
[We’re pleased to welcome Marcia Simmering of Louisiana Tech University. Dr. Simmering recently published an article in Organizational Research Methods with Christie […]
So How Does Tenure Work in Europe?
With university tenure under scrutiny in Wisconsin and tenure itself under assault elsewhere, Jürgen Enders examines how academics are protected in three European countries.
Book Review: Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules
Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules. By Dan Clawson Naomi Gerstel . New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2014. […]
Stories of Research to Reality: Kerric Harvey
Media anthropologist Kerric Harvey was present when the world started to wake to the idea that the Internet was changing society dramatically, and realized that good social science was needed to figure out what to expect.
