Nominations are now being accepted for the prestigious Heineken Prizes 2018. The deadline for nominations is 15 October 2017. These international prizes, worth $200,000 each, reward outstanding achievement in the fields of: Biochemistry and Biophysics Cognitive Science Environmental Sciences History Medicine These prestigious biennial prizes are intended explicitly for scientists and scholars who are currently […]
The 2017 Stein Rokkan prize has been awarded jointly to Abel Escribà-Folch (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Joseph Wright (Penn State University) in recognition of their book Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival, published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Their book asks two closely connected questions: In what ways and to what extent […]
Following the publication in March of the Gender in the Global Research Landscape Report, Elsevier have made raw data from the report freely available on the Mendeley Data repository. The data in the repository informs the Report’s analysis of research performance through a gender lens across 20 years, 12 geographies and 27 subject areas, with indicators including authors, […]
The Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) is pleased to announce a new position for a post-doctoral research scientist. The position will be based at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in Palisades, NY, United States. The project seeks to examine gender […]
On 22 May 2017, the European Commission adopted a decision on setting up the high-level multi-stakeholder platform on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the European Union. The platform aims to cover the social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainable development, as well as the internal and external policy dimensions. Interested stakeholders are […]
