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 […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Seeing and experiencing violence makes aggression “normal” for children (Social Psychological and Personality Science) Are coalitions the inevitable future for UK governments? (Political Science) […]
Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks
Interested in writing an article for a journal but struggling with it? SAGE published Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A […]
Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade
Michel Anteby, Harvard University, published “Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers” in the December […]
Where did all the sociologists go? Querying ‘the lecturer experience’
The new government’s announcements of forthcoming changes to the workings of British higher education have inspired much debate. The major newspapers have […]
Housing and mental illness
In a recent post for Harvard University Press blog, Russell Schutt examines the results of research into housing for people with mental […]
Song Lyrics, Twitter Help Chart Public Mood
Michael Haederle describes a new research method to work out the mood of a group of people. Social scientists seeking to assess the […]
Business and Society receives its first Impact Factor!
Business and Society (BAS), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is the official journal of the International Association for Business and Society, the only […]
Lords recommend appointment of Chief Social Scientist
The recommendation by the House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee’s report Behaviour Change, published today (20 July), to appoint an independent […]
