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 […]
Weighing the Benefits from New Data-Sharing Rules from the National Institutes of Health
Starting on Jan. 25, 2023, many of the 2,500 institutions and 300,000 researchers that the U.S. National Institutes of Health supports will need to provide a formal, detailed plan for publicly sharing the data generated by their research.
The Perils of Measuring Performance, Inside and Outside Academia
Quantification can reformulate something as complex and multidimensional as teaching into a one-dimensional score. And such a score gives the possessor a sense of control and understanding. But, given the implications of quantification, this is an illusion.
‘Democracy in the Balance’ Series Finale Examines ‘Frontiers of Democratic Reform’
In the third and final panel in “Democracy in the Balance,” a series of virtual discussions about democratic vulnerability and resilience in the United States, “Frontiers of Democratic Reform” on April 20 will explore the practical steps that can be taken to guard against democratic backsliding in the United States and bolster the integrity of a functional national government.
SAGE Concept Grants: Open for Applications
SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, is inviting applications for the 2022 SAGE Concept Grant, which provides funding for new software tools for social science research.
Pandemic Shows We Must Recraft Editorial Ethics in Academic Publishing
Researchers need to observe ethical standards during a pandemic, say Ben Kasstan, Rishita Nandagiri and Siyane Aniley, and journals should hold them to these standards.
Time for Management Researchers to Tackle Tipping
As take-out and delivery via apps quickly became the norm during the pandemic, the author noticed seeing many more prompts to tip and intensifying rhetoric around tipping in some media outlets. This uptick surfaced many important policy and research questions the author wanted to draw attention to.
Collateral Damage: Russia’s War Damages its Academic Ties with West
Arik Burakovsky, an expert on relations between the U.S. and Russia, shines light on the future of cooperation between Russia and the West in the realm of higher education.
Woody Powell to Lead Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Sociologist and organizational theory pioneer Walter W. “Woody” Powell will serve as interim director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences as the center based at Stanford University continues to find a permanent replacement for Margaret Levi
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