Capaldi, D. M., Knoble, N. B., Shortt, J. W., & Kim, H. K. (2012). A systematic review of risk factors for intimate partner violence. Partner Abuse, 3(2), 231-280.

I follow academic journals and other publications via RSS feed in Google Reader. This system works for me as I have journals filed together by broad topics that are relevant to my current work (e.g., child maltreatment, culture and identity, child development, etc.). I also subscribe to research journals outside my discipline (e.g., criminology, public health, neuroscience) and this has been a helpful way to become familiar with work in related fields.  My morning routine usually includes scanning Reader which helps me stay afloat with subscriptions [and stay somewhat current with life outside of grad school].

Many of the FSP commenters also have subscriptions to PubMed search terms which seems incredibly helpful and will be my next keeping-up-with-journals experiment.

Beyond academic journals I also follow Research Blogging, Futurity, and other projects that disseminate research through commentary or aggregation. My latest favorite site to follow is LSE’s Impact of Social Sciences project as they post on great ideas for disseminating findings.

How do you stay current with your research reading?

• emerging researcher Taveeshi Gupta
• adolescent career development researcher Erik Porfeli
• Guillermo Bernal, researcher of culturally sensitive intervention adaptations
• Robert Blum,  international survey researcher
• adolescent political development researcher Connie Flanagan
• Cigdem Kagitcibasi, adolescent well-being researcher

Hope to see you at SRA 2014 in Austin, Texas!

Next up, consider supporting the Federal Research Public Access Act.

The doughnut of justice: A new way to think about growth

The ideas presented embed social justice, specifically distributive justice, within a framework of environmental justice. The video segment by Kate Raworth of Oxfam International is worth viewing. There were many compelling points in her video, however one point that stood out to me was this: It would take 1% of the global food supply to end hunger for the 13% of the world’s population who do not have enough food to eat.

In my doctoral program, the meaning and definition of social justice is a topic of frequent discussion. The perspective presented by Raworth of distributive justice, including adequate food, and resources that have been thoughtfully conserved is congruent with my own ideas about social justice.

What is your definition of social justice? What are your thoughts on Raworth’s ideas?

I continue to be in awe of the momentum within the STEM fields toward disruption of the long-standing paradigm for conducting research as well as publishing research. It may be due to my frame of reference as a doctoral student, but it seems there is not as much momentum or dialogue around open science or open access within social sciences.

What are your thoughts on the topic? What do you think about the level of engagement among social scientists in the conversation about open science and open access?

At this year’s conference I will be posting daily updates over at SRA Blogs on international research and international researchers. Stay tuned!

Currently, all research in the U.S. funded through public dollars is required to be made available to the public – open access with no paywall to read research publications. The Research Works Act would like to introduce a paywall for the public to read all research that was publicly and privately funded. Essentially, the public would end up paying for publicly funded research twice.

To learn more about  this bill, read ProPublica’s story and check out Harvard’s Open Access Project Notes on the Research Works Act (thanks, Peter Suber for the G+ share).