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 […]
Big Shoes and Little Feet: Leadership in South Africa
African governance guru Robert Rotberg is visiting South Africa and Zimbabwe, suggesting a prescription for leadership that tries to recapture some of the benefits of the fading Mandela moment.
Is Joint Achievement of Customer Satisfaction and Efficiency Beneficial in Merger Contexts?
[Editor’s Note: We’re pleased to welcome Vanitha Swaminathan, who collaborated with Christopher Groening, Vikas Mittal, and Felipe Thomaz on their paper “How […]
House GOP Officials Slap at Social Science Funding
Calling it only the “first step,” two prominent Republican congressmen called for freezing federal funding for social science research paid for by the National Science Foundation.
Register to Attend the FFI Research and Education Symposium!
Going to be in the Washington D.C. area this October? You’re invited to attend the FFI Research and Education Symposium! Who: This […]
$50 Million SBE Cut Moves Forward to the Full House
bad news for NSF funded social science — one bill wants to strip $50 million from the Social, Behavioral and Economic Science directorate, while a promised appropriations amendment would hold next year’s funding to this year’s level.
Applying PsyCap in the Classroom
Psychological Capital has shown great potential in creating positive attitudes and environments in the work place, but could it be applied to […]
To Err Is Human, To Study Errors Is Science
The possible retraction of a high profile paper in the medical sciences offers a teachable moment about replication, peer review, cognitive bias and the beauty and beastliness that can be science.
When Did Social Science Stop Being Worthy?
Social science and humanities spending by government is seen as a luxury by many. While there’s politics involved, some of that view likely follows from the yardsticks used to measure research value.
