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 […]
New Thought Leadership Webinar Series Opens with Regional Looks at Research Impact
Research impact will be the focus of a new webinar series from Epigeum, which provides online courses for universities and colleges. The […]
Endel Tulving, 1927-2023: ‘The Memorist’ of Cognitive Psychology
Endel Tulving, a cognitive neuroscientist and experimental psychologist who conducted groundbreaking work on memory after his escape from war-torn Europe, died on September 11 at age 96.
Shared Leadership: What Do Employees Think About It?
Traditional approaches to sharing leadership focus on the attitude of the manager. But what about the attitudes of the underlings asked to step up?
Matchmaking Research to Policy: Introducing Britain’s Areas of Research Interest Database
Kathryn Oliver discusses the recent launch of the United Kingdom’s Areas of Research Interest Database. A new tool that promises to provide a mechanism to link researchers, funders and policymakers more effectively collaboratively and transparently.
Watch The Lecture: The ‘E’ In Science Stands For Equity
According to the National Science Foundation, the percentage of American adults with a great deal of trust in the scientific community dropped […]
Deborah Small on Charitable Giving
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Deborah Small, the Adrian C. Israel Professor of Marketing at Yale University, details some of the thought processes and outcomes that research provides about charitable giving.
Too Many ‘Gray Areas’ In Workplace Culture Fosters Racism And Discrimination
The new president of the American Sociological Association spent more than 10 years interviewing over 200 Black workers in a variety of roles – from the gig economy to the C-suite. I found that many of the problems they face come down to organizational culture. Too often, companies elevate diversity as a concept but overlook the internal processes that disadvantage Black workers.
Fake News, Misinformation Focus of New Microsite
A new Information Literacy Microsite from sage can be your new home for pressing research on the digital age and the ways to combat mis-, dis-, and misinformation.
