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 […]
Performative Social Science?
The arts can have a role in both conducting social science and in getting into the hands of the wider community, argues Kip Jones, and should be in the quiver of research methods. Plus, it takes a step away from using PowerPoint!
Jerry Davis asks “Why Do We Still Have Journals?”
Gerald F. Davis, editor of Administrative Science Quarterly, explores this question in his editorial essay from the June issue of from Administrative Science […]
First Citizen of the Caribbean: Norman Girvan, 1941-2014
Economist Norman Girvan, one of the Caribbean’s most respected social scientists and a consistent and loud voice for greater unity in the region, died last month.
Debunking Chemical Myths
Sense About Science have launched the new edition of their public guide ‘Making Sense of Chemical Stories’ this week, debunking chemical myths and […]
Why Do We Still Have Journals?
It’s time for a broader dialogue about how we connect the aims of the social science enterprise to our system of journals, argues the editor of Administrative Science Quarterly.
What’s in the Future for Psychological Capital?
In 2006, Fred Luthans coauthored the book Psychological Capital, in which he detailed how boosting positivity in work environments ultimately advanced worker’s […]
Spanish Chronicler Joseph Pérez Wins Asturias Prize
Joseph Pérez, born in France but one of the pre-eminent chroniclers of imperial and modern Spain, has received the Prince of Asturias […]
Webinar: Innovations in Disseminating Psychological Science
Earlier this month Aime Ballard-Wood, director of publications for the Association for Psychological Science, discussed recent efforts for heightened dissemination of psychological […]
