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 […]
Five Questions with Scholar/Activist Christine Drennon
Christine Drennon, a Texas geographer whose youth and professional life have given her a front-row seat to see how access and equality play out in American cities, has received the annual Urban Affairs Association award for a scholar/activist.
What Role Does Trust Play in the Workplace?
Available to read for free now: Journal of Management‘s new Editor’s Choice collection on trust! This collection features 17 articles devoted to […]
In UK, Fewer Researchers Supported But More Research
Jane Tinkler breaks down the key findings from the UK government report on the impact of research council funding over the last year. With income cuts playing a significant role, the number of principal investigators and research fellowships with research council funding have both gone down–even as the remainder’s output has gone up.
What I Say When My Colleagues Ask Me If They Should Be On Twitter
Quite frequently nowadays, other professors ask me if they should be on Twitter, reports Hope Jahren, a scientist, blogger and not-so-secret agent for social media. “This is kind of sad,” I think to myself, “How did we get to the point where I’m giving computer advice?” I’ve decided to generously make my opinions available.
SAGE Opposes FIRST Act
Leading social and behavioral sciences publisher SAGE today joined with science associations and American universities in opposing the FIRST Act. This act […]
Lipinski Suggests Damage From FIRST Might Be Contained
How concerned should the social science community be about the still substantial chunk of money missing from federal social science support in a hotly contested National Science Foundation reauthorization bill? According to Daniel Lipinski, the very conservative Democratic congressman whose amendment backfilled $50 million that even more conservative Republicans wanted to take away, a lot and a little.
A Postdoc’s Lament: Creativity and Innovation in Academic Sphere
How does the experience of impermanent, precarious employment on the margins of academia affect young scholars’ ability to engage in creative labor? Is such creative labor still possible?
Northwestern’s Fay Lomax Cook Tabbed to Head SBE
Northwestern University social policy professor Fay Lomax Cook, the longtime head of the Institute for Policy Research, has been appointed to head the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral &; Economic Sciences.
