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 […]
Death to PowerPoint (And Why It Will Live)
If universities were interested in measuring learning, argues Paul Ralph, it’s likely the bulb in the PowerPoint projector would dim a bit.
ESRC Recognizes Researchers Who Make a Difference
A professor of politics who reached millions with his and his team’s analysis of the Scottish independence referendum, a psychologist who helped […]
Book Review: The Relevance of Political Science
A new collection engages directly with how political science can achieve wider relevance as a discipline. Matt Wood finds ‘The Relevance of Political Science’ a must read for any scholar interested in the impact debate and he welcomes a return to the more social constructivist ideas of impact through teaching and learning.
Let’s Un-Invite the Idea of Disinvitations
When people with well-known, if controversial, ideas are disinvited from speaking engagements just because those known views bother some people who know how to send email or to tweet, something is very wrong, argues Russell Blackford.
Open Letter on Innovation Urges Real Support for Basic Research
More than 250 universities and scholarly groups and the CEOs of 10 corporations have released an open letter urging American policymakers to “heed the warnings” about the nation’s waning commitment to basic research.
Social Science in the News
Cutting social science funding stalls future innovation The Hill (blog) Gutting funding for social and behavioral science research in favor of other […]
Reversing Africa’s Academic Brain Drain
It won’t come easy, but an Nigerian academic working in Arkansas urges administrators of African universities to limit the obstacles keeping Africans from choosing to work in the home continent.
Want Better Health and Longevity? Invest in Education
Education — even more so than spending on health — correlates with a longer life, according to research reported in the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.’
