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 […]
David Stuckler on Austerity and Death
You might assume that deaths increase in a recession, but that doesn’t necessarily happen.
Grad Rates: It’s About the Students
How can we improve college graduation rates? According to a study recently published in SAGE Open , we’ve been searching for that […]
10 Ways Our Civil Liberties Might Be Changing
What will freedom in the U.S. look like in the coming century? A new article in World Future Review offers ten plausible […]
A Guide for These Uncertain Times
The language of science doesn’t always lend itself to making persuasive arguments. There’s the theory of evolution. The overwhelming consensus on climate change. And the uncertainty, of, well, just about everything.
Don’t Let Your Best Employees Get Away
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Professor Wendy Marcinkus Murphy of Babson College. She and co-authors James P. Burton of Northern […]
Is Your Team Using Its Biggest Resource?
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Michael R. Baumann of The University of Texas at San Antonio and Bryan L. Bonner […]
The Sociologist, the Consultant, the University and the Real World
In the context of consulting projects there may be very little room for the sociological imagination, the questioning of common sense, and, least of all, challenges to the status quo.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Social sciences targeted in ‘ ideological ‘ war on research Times Higher Education The Humanities Make Life Bearable Religion Dispatches Costa Rica’s […]
