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 […]
CSR from the Customer’s POV
Organizations shouldn’t assume that engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives will automatically increase their credibility with clients. Instead, a new article […]
De profundis
At the moment, some universities do seem to be very happy with quite a lot of inequality. Apparently, universities are even more likely than other employers to make extensive use of zero-hour contracts. This coincides in a striking manner with reports about a growing elitism in British academia.
The Academy welcomes nominations for Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize
The Moynihan Prize recognizes social scientists, public officials and other leaders in the public arena who champion the use of informed judgment […]
The Power of Meaningful Work
Organizations engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts for a variety of reasons, not least of which is the desire to attract […]
Can the Workplace Make Us More Charitable?
Given that most of us spend such a large portion of our daily lives at work, it’s unsurprising that the workplace has […]
The New National Service for Social and Economic Data
This year’s British Sociological Association annual conference saw countless presentations from all over the country, many of which were based on secondary […]
Make Your Meetings a Tool for Engagement
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Dr. Joseph A. Allen of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He and Dr. Steven […]
How Knowledge Sharing Improves Advising Services
Family business advisors contend with complicated and multidimensional issues facing their clients. It makes sense, then, that these advisors benefit from the […]
