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 […]
Free Access to Women’s Research in Honor of International Women’s Day
This piece was originally posted on International Women’s Day at the Management Ink blog. It is re-posted here with permission. *** It was International Women’s […]
Embed With Our Enemies: Making Process Itself a Calling Card
While academic social science is extremely effective at generating public value, it is less adept at communicating this value. Sam Baars believes researchers should reflect on the ways in which social value is created not just from the findings of our research, but also the way in which it is conducted. He pushes for the adoption of a more ‘embedded’ approach to research which involves working more closely with the public, and public institutions, at a local level.
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. All the articles linked to […]
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Launch of the World Social Science Blog | IPSA | Political Science News – News ⋅ sarah.veilleux.poulin The International Social Science Council […]
Inspiring Change on International Women’s Day
It is International Women’s Day today, observed since the early 1900s to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. To commemorate the day, […]
In Our Age of Social Protests, What Promotes Protest?
With one eye on Ukraine, David Canter comments on the social psychology of protest in an Age of Social Protest.
The Problem with Surveys in Research
[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to welcome Ben Hardy who collaborated with Lucy R. Ford on their article entitled “It’s Not Me, […]
Universities Behaving Badly
Derek Bok has called on universities to be ‘ethical beacons’ shining out in their communities, but that shine is tarnished in oh-so-many ways in institutions of higher education around the world, notes Professor Sir David Watson.
