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 […]
The Impact Agenda – an ESRC-funded seminar series
Seminar 1 Impact: approaches and contexts Wednesday 12 January 201, University of Manchester
methods@manchester: research methods in the social sciences
methods@manchester is an initiative funded by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester. It aims to: highlight Manchester’s strength in research methods […]
Playing the numbers game in policy
The statistical illiteracy of the population – including policy-makers – was the subject of a discussion at the British Library on 13 […]
Pictorial Information Roles
Soo Hyun Jun, Bournemouth University, and Stephen Holland, University of Florida, published “Information-Processing Strategies: A Focus on Pictorial Information Roles” in the March online […]
In defense of psychoanalysis
There’s no denying that Freud’s theories are deeply embedded in the fabric of modern life. However, as Robert Rowland Smith explores in […]
Joking Aside: “Dilbert” & Employee Dignity
Elizabeth M. Doherty, Doherty Consulting Group, published “Joking Aside, Insights to Employee Dignity in “Dilbert” Cartoons: The Value of Comic Art in Understanding the […]
Open Web Division
Future Internet = Future Democracy –> Open Web Division of The Civic Media Institute http://www.cmiarts.org
Cleanliness cues activate conservative attitudes
New research reported in Miller-McCune magazine finds subtle reminders of cleanliness seem to shift people to the political right. They may not […]
