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 […]
In Defense of Qualitative Research – A PhD Researcher’s Experience
The authors argues that there is a bias against qualitative research, and yet not every type of data can be handled using quantitative, and human behavior cannot always be reduced to numbers.
Positive Management Practices as Cornerstone for a Sustainable Transformation
Martin Becker discusses how positive management practices can improve employee well-being and attract talent in highly competitive labor markets.
‘Critical Ignoring’ May Be Just as Vital as Critical Thinking
Critical ignoring is the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities.
Face Masks for COVID: An Obituary?
While the full story will probably have to await the attention of historians, writes Robert Dingwall, but anyone who criticized masking was labeled as a peddler of disinformation.
Business Schools are Ignoring Students’ Changing Aspirations. They Must Focus on Management as a Calling
Andrew Hoffman writes that business schools are slow to respond to students’ changing ideals, sticking to a heavy emphasis on 50-year-old notions of shareholder primacy and a “greed is good” mentality. He proposes a different business school model that emphasizes management as a calling.
Sociologist Alondra Nelson Leaving No. 2 Post at OSTP
Sociologist Alondra Nelson, deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the most senior adviser on social science in the Biden administration, will resign her post effective February 10.
How Might Societal Impact be Recognized within an FT Top 50 Journal?
From a journal editor’s perspective, top journals play a central role in recognizing societal impact of research.
Europe’s Research Universities Call for Harnessing Breadth of Social Science and Humanities
A new report from a consortium of European research universities says if the European Union really wants to achieve its stated policy goals, it had better heed the advice of the consortium on including the “broadest possible range” of social science and humanities insights.
