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 […]
King and Crewe’s Book of ‘Blunders’ a Paddy Prize Winner
‘The Blunders of Our Governments,’ co-authored by the president of the Academy of Social Sciences, Ivor Crewe, and fellow political scientist Anthony King, has been named the Practical Politics Book of the Year in Britain’s annual Paddy Power Political Book Awards.
Is Evolutionary Psychology ‘Real’ Science? One Unhappy Take
Christopher Scanlon, an associate dean at La Trobe University, argues that evolutionary psychologists’ efforts to determine if people are ‘wired for happiness’ are faces some tall obstacles if they want their work to be considered scientific..
The Day the Earth Moved: Canada’s Muzzled Researchers
Canadian scientists are being prevented by the state from discussing research findings in public, even about earthquakes in their backyard. Mark Frary reports
Are There Questionable Research Practices in Management Research?
The publishing industry can be competitive. But how far will a potential researcher go to achieve success? Farther than you would think, […]
How to Present Data Effectively: An Example
This how-to by information designer Stephanie Evergreen first appeared at SAGE Connection. *** Why even present data at all? Why bother to […]
How to Live Tweet at an Academic Event
This how-to by SAGE PR and Public Affairs Manager Camille Gamboa first appeared at SAGE Connection. *** With a brand new year […]
9 Basics for Anyone Submitting to a Scholarly Journal
Leah Fargotstein, a social science journals editor at SAGE, recently sat on a panel where she was asked some basic, yet essential […]
6 Reasons Why Researchers (of Any Age) Should Get Tweeting
This post by SAGE’s Camille Gamboa first appeared at SAGE Connection under the title, “6 Reasons why researchers (of any age) should […]
