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 […]
Knowledge Divides – 2010 World Social Science Report
The 2010 World Social Science Report (WSSR) produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and co-published by UNESCO was launched by […]
Making the Case For the Social Sciences no.1: Wellbeing
Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by the Academy of Social Sciences, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research […]
Recognising Psychology as a STEM Discipline
Psychology is not just a science in its own right, but makes important direct and indirect contributions to other Science, Technology, Engineering, […]
Working with the Life Sciences; “Whose aspirations? Whose achievements?”
The life sciences have made major contributions to our knowledge and understanding, but utilising that knowledge for maximum benefit often requires different […]
How to Save Social Security
“Saving Social Security will be relatively easy. Managing its impact on the federal budget will be daunting.” Read the article, Social Security […]
Risk, ethics and public sensitivities: LSE TLSS Series
This podcast was recorded by the LSE as part of their series, Thinking like a Social Scientist. Risk, ethics and public sensitivities […]
The Marketplace of Perceptions: Behavioral economics explains why we procrastinate, buy, borrow, and grab chocolate on the spur of the moment
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. Like all revolutions in thought, this one began with anomalies, […]
Ethics of research with young children
When we involve young children in our research, there are the usual things we well know that we must attend to – […]
