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 […]
Being Tough or Being Nice?
Joachim Hüffmeier, University of Münster, Philipp Alexander Freund, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Alfred Zerres, Klaus Backhaus and Guido Hertel, all of University of Münster, […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Olympic massacre to the Olympic Stress Syndrome (International Review for the Sociology of Sport) Tobacco consumption and the poor (Ethnography)
Social science sites of the week
Gov.uk launched. Beta site opens for public testing. It is the intention that this will eventually replace Directgov as a single one […]
Measuring the Effectiveness of Mutual Learning for Taiwan’s Tourist Hotels with the DEA Approach
Chung-Te Ting, Chang Jung Christian University, and Chin-Wei Huang, Taiwan Shoufu University, published “Measuring the Effectiveness of Mutual Learning for Taiwan’s Tourist Hotels with […]
Conclusion: The New Common Sense
The connection between money, degrees, employability, and the ‘real-world’ relevance of academic work has been hammered so relentlessly into our minds that is has become virtually possible to eschew.
Beatrice Webb launches LSE’s digital library : great new free resource for social scientists
One century on and Beatrice Webb, one of the founders of LSE and its library, would be proud to know that her […]
An Improved Measure of Ethical Leadership
Gary Yukl, University at Albany, Rubina Mahsud, Seattle University, Shahidul Hassan, Ohio State University, and Gregory E. Prussia, Seattle University, published “An Improved Measure […]
An Integrative Model of the Role of Trust in Transactive Memory Development
Melanie Ashleigh and Jane Prichard, both of the University of Southampton, published “An Integrative Model of the Role of Trust in Transactive Memory […]
