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 […]
Taking the Air out of the Ban on Transgender Troops
UPDATE: In a 2014 article, a former U.S. surgeon general and four co-authors argue that the U.S. military’s medically based ban on transgender troops in place then failed on the facts and on the precedents of other populations in uniform.
How Should Businesses Respond to Bad Online Reviews?
According to Forbes, 72% of people trust online reviews just as much as they would trust the opinion of a friend or […]
Social Science in Action: Ferguson Is a Serious Outlier
One black city council member is not nearly enough. In a study of city councils, only one place in America had a greater representational disparity than Ferguson, Missouri.
Children’s Perceptions: Teachers are Girls, Scientists are Boys
If you were to draw a ‘scientist,’ what would be the distinguishing features? Martin Rowley and James Hartley look at psychology studies which have evaluated children’s perceptions of scientists, all confirming stereotypical views of scientists as predominately white and male.
A Warm Welcome to Journal of Management Education’s New Co-Editors!
We’re pleased to welcome new Journal of Management Education editors Jeanie M. Forray and Kathy Lund Dean. Drs. Forray and Dean discuss […]
European Scientists Fear Data Protection Overreach
Raising the drumbeat of alarm before a final European Parliament ruling later this year, a coalition of the continent’s research organizations have made explicit their opposition to new rules that they say would impede social science and medical research.
Closing the Academic-Practitioner Gap: Stories of Success
[We’re pleased to welcome Megan W. Gerhardt who collaborated with Kenneth G. Brown and Anders Dysvik on their paper “A Bridge Over […]
Replication Is More Common, But Still Too Rare
A study of the 100 top journals in education research found that there’s still almost no effort made to replicate the findings they publish.
