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Science, Advocacy and Anthropology
Do you remember the arcade game ‘Whack-a-Mole’? Plastic animals pop up at random from their holes in a table’s surface. The player bashes them back into their holes with a rubber mallet. As the pace...
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Using Quantitative Skills in the Third Sector
Quantitative Skills (QS) give ‘empirical grit’ to the work of charities and third sector organisations. Here, Sharon Witherspoon, Director of the Nuffield Foundation and 2011 Winner of the British...
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When Tenure-Track Faculty Take On the Problem of Adjunctification
I am part of an unofficial group of tenured faculty at a state institution that relies on many non-tenure-track faculty, but we are not the tenured faculty Ivan Evans refers to in his piece “When the...
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Social Scientists Swarm Capitol Hill for a Day
Part of the role that Washington, D.C.-based scholarly societies and consortia have is to march up to Capitol Hill and at a minimum thank legislators for helping their institutions and disciplines and...
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More Than A March: Evidence Supporters Gather in Chicago
March for Science: S|GNS Summit In 2017, the first-ever March for Science saw more than a million people participating around the globe to demonstrate their support for the importance of basic...
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‘Scholars of Democracy’ Sign Statement to Support U.S. Voting Legislation
A collection of prominent American-based “scholars of democracy” – the majority of them political scientists – have signed a statement in support of the Freedom to Vote Act. The legislation, according...
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