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 […]
Employee Creativity at Work when Coping with Life Trauma: The Importance of Organizational Practices
Professor Feirong Yuan discusses the impacts of creativity at work and answers questions about her paper, “Sensemaking and Creativity at Work When […]
Science’s Communication Problem
Scientists can be brilliant communicators. We are trained to work with collaborations large and small, present our work in journal articles and conferences with clarity and purpose, and generally enjoy chatting with each other. Communication is a fundamental part of scientific life. Yet when scientists try to engage the public, they face barriers to getting their message across and can often find their messages manipulated.
Webinar: How Can Public Access Advance Equity and Learning?
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have teamed up present a 90-minute online session examining how to balance public access to federally funded research results with an equitable publishing environment.
Resilience in the Face of Adversity: Frontline Employees as ‘Heroes’
Dubbed “The Great Resignation,” a record-breaking trend of employees quitting their jobs leads these researchers to study resilience in frontline employees.
Social Science Research Council Turns 100: Interview with President Anna Harvey
To celebrate the Social Science Research Council’s 100th anniversary, we interviewed SSRC president Anna Harvey.
Jane M. Simoni Named New Head of OBSSR
Clinical psychologist Jane M. Simoni has been named to head the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
An Australian Look at Generalist Degrees Like Social Science Shows Value of Adaptability
The generalist degree has a big part to play in the emerging higher education landscape for graduates. Humanities, social science, general science, technology and creative industries fields such as design can deliver adaptable, flexible mindsets.
‘Optopia’ and the Politics of Hope
Having read Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future” and reflected on it in the context of the managerial literature around the climate crisis, we set out to imagine a middle ground between utopia and dystopia; an optimum scenario which can still leave us with a livable future.
