Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the ‘Other Sciences’ at the National Science Foundation

Measuring Interdisciplinarity at the National Science Foundation

Fostering interdisciplinary research is a priority at the National Science Foundation (NSF). To this end, the NSF has undertaken several foundation-wide initiatives and encouraged the development of multi-directorate programs. As these new initiatives and programs grow, so does interest in assessing the success of such experiments in fostering interdisciplinary research (IDR). A primary challen...

Science funding. The National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council.

(Editor's Note: Following is a reprint ofa letter sent to Donna Shalala, secretary of the Department ofHealth and Human Services, on 9June 1995.) The budget now under consideration in the Congress for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences would indefensibly threaten environmental health protection for America. For millions of Americans the environment is a major determinant of...

The National Science Foundation

Applying for National Science Foundation Funding in Cognitive Science: Cognition, Computation, Development, Education, and Neuroscience

This half-day workshop will provide information and handson experience related to applying for National Science Foundation (NSF) funding in cognitive science. Program officers will discuss the NSF review process and NSF merit criteria. Details regarding a range of cognitive science research programs will be covered, including cognition, computation, development, education, and neuroscience. In ...

For public social science.

Braithwaite (Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University) (Corresponding author email: [email protected]) © London School of Economics and Political Science 2005 ISSN 0007-1315 print/1468-4446 online. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA on behalf of the LSE. DOI: 10.1111/j.146...