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 […]
The Social Scientist Who Knew Torture Wasn’t Worth the Game
Game theory neatly — and sadly — predicted the futility of using torture to extract meaning information from terror suspects, neatly predicting the results of the recent U.S. Senate report years before its release.
Political Learning in the Struggle: Perspectives From the Egyptian Diaspora
In a cross-posting with Social Science Space partner Viva Voce podcasts, Helen Underhill at the University of Manchester describes how Egyptians living outside their native land respond to the political turmoil there, and how there is not single ‘Egyptian voice’ that speaks for them all.
Should We Focus on Service Quality or Emotions? How to Build Customer-Brand Relationships to Increase Marketing Performance
[We’re pleased to welcome Bettina Nyffenegger of the Institute of Marketing and Management at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Dr. Nyffenegger […]
Playing the Game of REF
A very strong overall REF performance signifies a large concentration of outstanding work. It is an unambiguous plus. All the same, precise league table positions in the REF, indicator by indicator, should be taken with a grain of salt.
Book Review: Leadership Talk: A Discourse Approach to Leader Emergence
Need last minute shopping ideas? Can’t go wrong with a good book! Walker, R., & Aritz, J. (2014). Leadership talk: A discourse […]
With the REF, We Can Evaluate the Impact of Impact
Measuring impact was a key feature of the just-released Research Education Framework in the UK. But ‘impact’ isn’t as fair a measurement as we could hope.
Does your boss find you proactive…or pushy?
[We’re pleased to welcome Gerhard Blickle and Andreas Wihler, both of the University of Bonn. Drs. Blickle and Wihler, collaborated with B. […]
We’re At Work on the Next Iteration of REF
Not all eyes will be glued to the release of the UK’s Research Excellence Framework on Thursday. Some of the people who built the REF are evaluating the current lessons to improve the next version.
