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 […]
Using Simulation as a Training Tool for Project Management
Educators work hard to make sure their pupils are prepared for their chosen field of work. Inside a classroom, however, this can […]
The Ongoing Evolution of Universities into Newsrooms
Social media and alternative ways of measuring academic impact are helping turn universities into giant newsrooms, argues Maxine Newlands. That’s not necessarily bad, and it may be inevitable.
Do Celebrities Influence Our Vacation Destinations?
During the winter doldrums, it’s easy to find yourself daydreaming about where you’d like to escape for vacation. But as you start […]
A Perceptive Outsider Always Looking In: Stuart Hall, 1932-2014
The permanent outsider who helped pry open Britain’s eyes to the field of cultural studies has died at age 82.
Floods, Politics and Science: The Case of the Somerset Levels
Feel-good interventions that don’t provide a practical good, or at least one not supported by evidence, generate questions that hinge specifically on future responses to climate change and more broadly on government decision-making in general.
Does Having Healthy Self-Esteem Lead to a More Successful Career?
Every day there are many factors that affect work productivity. Stress and exhaustion, for example, have understandably negative effects, however what type […]
Employee Innovation in Family Business Environments
[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to welcome Yannick Bammens, Guy Notelaers, and Anita Van Gils who collaborated on their article entitled “Implications […]
CVS Extinguishes Tobacco Sales: An Academic Review
A roundup of social science research that shines a light on a major American retailer’s decision to stop selling tobacco products from its stores.
