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 […]
Work-Life Balance
“Work–Life Balance?: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Everyday Home–Work Dynamics” by Laurie Cohen, Joanne Duberley, and Gill Musson was one of the top downloaded […]
Reform of English laws on free speech
The British government has confirmed that it will introduce a Defamation Bill in the spring, to change the law on libel and […]
Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, […]
The value of history to public policy
Statements such as ‘knowing about history helps us to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past’ are commonplace. There is no doubt […]
Is CSR Worthwhile to Firms?
“Doing Good And Doing Better Despite Negative Information? The Role Of Corporate Social Responsibility In Consumer Resistance To Negative Information” by Andreas […]
It wasn’t social science that caused the economic crisis!
I know the season for frivolous quiz games has passed but do you know who is buried in Westminster Abbey? More generally, […]
Organization Development
“Revisioning Organization Development: Diagnostic and Dialogic Premises and Patterns of Practice” by Gervase R. Bushe and Robert J. Marshak was published in the […]
Research Ethics and James Bond
It is not often, as a middle aged academic, that I get to feel like James Bond – but there is something about […]
