Research Funding

Communicating Findings Should be Included in Research Funding
Industry
January 31, 2023

Communicating Findings Should be Included in Research Funding

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Social Scientists Should Take a Gander at Golden Goose Award
Announcements
August 26, 2022

Social Scientists Should Take a Gander at Golden Goose Award

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Content Analysis Illustrates What Congress Wants from the NSF Today
Research
August 31, 2020

Content Analysis Illustrates What Congress Wants from the NSF Today

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Minerva Initiative Seems Likely to Avoid Untimely Death
News
July 10, 2020

Minerva Initiative Seems Likely to Avoid Untimely Death

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Opportunity: Over $30 Million in Awards to Improve Healthy Longevity

Opportunity: Over $30 Million in Awards to Improve Healthy Longevity

The National Academy of Medicine has launched the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, a multiyear, multimillion-dollar international competition seeking breakthrough innovations to extend human health and function later in life.

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Research on Research

Research on Research

With the advent of the new Research on Research Institute, our Robert Dingwall notes that while research on research fills a gap in the world of knowledge. However, it is important not to confuse it with the research enterprise itself or to assume that this will benefit from being made so planned, rational and evidence-based that the result is to squeeze innovation out of the system.

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Government Research Funding Falls for Fourth Year in US

Government Research Funding Falls for Fourth Year in US

For the fourth straight year, federal funding for research and development at institutions of higher education decreased in absolute terms, according to a new brief on the 2015 fiscal year the National Science Foundation released last week. Despite that overall fall, research and development funding for psychology and for fields identified as social science increased from 2014 to 2015.

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Why Chan and Zuckerberg Cannot Cure All Diseases

Why Chan and Zuckerberg Cannot Cure All Diseases

We often use the metaphor of a war to describe the human struggle against disease. This is a very unhelpful way of thinking, because it generates the sort of hubris exemplified by the Chan Zuckerberg program.

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The Ethics of Impact

The Ethics of Impact

Back in the summer, John Holmwood, the current BSA President, sent me an email about impact and research ethics. Various contingencies have […]

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Outlawed Research

Outlawed Research

Congress just cut funding for political science because they don’t understand the good it does. Here are four excellent examples.

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Will Social Science Research Cuts Affect the Human Rights Situation in the U.S.?

Will Social Science Research Cuts Affect the Human Rights Situation in the U.S.?

On social science, the sequester, and the need for a Human Rights Culture.

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OA and the Man from Del Monte…

OA and the Man from Del Monte…

Older readers may recall a series of advertisements on UK TV in the 1980s, featuring the Man from Del Monte. The international […]

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