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Jennifer Eberhardt's work has looked at the subtle, complex, largely unconscious yet deeply ingrained ways that individuals racially code and categorize people and the far-reaching consequences of stereotypic associations between race and crime.

2019 David Lecture Examines Implicit Bias and Public Policy

Jennifer Eberhardt, a Stanford University social psychologist whose work on how ingrained racial attitudes affect things like law enforcement gained her a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2014, will deliver this year’s Henry and Bryna David Lecture.

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Monographs have a long and honorable history in Western scholarship, but increasingly they have fallen out of favor in many disciplines and present thrny issues when it comes to open access. (Photo Tom Woodward/Flickr)

Modernizing the Monograph Ecosystem Can Save Them From Extinction

The future of the academic monograph has been questioned for over two decades. At the heart of this ‘monograph crisis’ has been a publishing industry centred on the print publication of monographs and a failure and lack of incentives to develop business models that would support a transition to open digital monographs. In this post Mike Taylor argues that if monographs are to be appropriately

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Britain’s Mental Health Crisis, Mindfulness and the Sociological Imagination

The popularization of mindfulness, write Daniel Nehring and Ashley Frawley, cannot just be understood as a recent response to public perceptions of a mental health crisis. Rather, it is the result of developments in academic psychology, in its clinical uses in psychotherapy, and in its growing commercial exploitation from the 1980s onwards.

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ESRC's Effort to Develop Leadership in the Social Sciences: A Hunt for Unicorns?

Surely preparing Britain's social science community to take the lead in a future of global and interdisciplinary team research isn't a quest for a mythical beast? Matt Flinders, who heads an ESRC project trying to nurture that leadership, doesn't think so - but he understands why someone might think it is.

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Shaping Welsh Government Policy with Research Evidence

The Wales Centre for Public Policy is helping to inform and shape policy decisions by presenting research evidence directly to government ministers, producing over 120 studies in the last five years – supporting effective policy making and benefiting public services across Wales.

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Before Plan S, There Was Latin America's AmeliCA

Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication to an open one. In Latin America an open access ecosystem for scholarly publishing has been in place for over a decade. Could efforts like Plan S actually hurt this established initiative?

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Which Public Universities Get Buckets of Private Money?

Even as government spending per-student for higher education institutions has been faltering in the United States, private money has been flowing in. But not all public institutions are getting the same amount of seed money from outsiders.

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Do We Turn Away from the 'Grimpact' of Some Research?

A critical blind spot in the impact agenda has been that impact is understood and defined solely in positive terms. Gemma Derrick and Paul Benneworth introduce the concept of ‘grimpact' to describe instances where research negatively impacts society. Researchers and science systems, they argue, are poorly equipped to deal with.

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Whither the Children When Parents Are Incarcerated?

An estimated 312,000 children annually lose a parent to imprisonment in England and Wales. Dr. Shona Minson, is the winner for Outstanding Early Career Impact in the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2019.

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Opening the Door to Allow All Truly Gifted Students Entry

Joni Lakin takes a look at David Lohman’s seminal 2005 work in Gifted Child Quarterly. His paper addresses the issue of underrepresentation while tackling a well-intentioned myth that nonverbal tests are the most equitable way to assess students who come from racial, ethnic, or linguistic minorities in the U.S.

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Fudged Research Results Erode People’s Trust in Experts

A database of retractions shows hundreds of academic articles with Australian authors have been withdrawn. Research misconduct threatens to corrode trust in academic qualifications and publications.

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Kayleigh Garthwaite on Foodbanks

“I think the debate about why people use the foodbanks has become really politicized to the point where apparently individual faults and failings are the reason why people are using them,” Kayleigh Garthwaite tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast. To find out, she volunteered to work at a Trussell Trust foodbank in northern England’s city of Stockton, deploying

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Video: APS Panel Discusses Nexus of Impact and Life

Can social science’s impact be boiled down to improving and enriching lives? In recent years, there has been an uptake in requirements from funders across the globe to prove impact of scholarly work, and simultaneously, intensified scrutiny about the value...

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- Modernizing the Monograph Ecosystem Can Save Them From Extinction - The future of the academic monograph has been questioned for over two decades. At the heart of this ‘monograph crisis’ has been a publishing industry centred on the print publication of monographs and a failure and lack of incentives to develop business models that would support a transition to open digital monographs. In this post Mike Taylor argues that if monographs are to be appropriately valued, there is a pressing need to further integrate monographs into the digital infrastructure of scholarly communication. Failing this, the difficulty in tracking the usage and discovery of monographs online, will likely make the case for justifying further investment in monographs harder.... More →
- Video: APS Panel Discusses Nexus of Impact and Life - Can social science’s impact... More →
- Britain’s Mental Health Crisis, Mindfulness and the Sociological Imagination - The popularization of mindfulness, write Daniel Nehring and Ashley Frawley, cannot just be understood as a recent response to public perceptions of a mental health crisis. Rather, it is the result of developments in academic psychology, in its clinical uses in psychotherapy, and in its growing commercial exploitation from the 1980s onwards.... More →
- ESRC's Effort to Develop Leadership in the Social Sciences: A Hunt for Unicorns? - Surely preparing Britain's social science community to take the lead in a future of global and interdisciplinary team research isn't a quest for a mythical beast? Matt Flinders, who heads an ESRC project trying to nurture that leadership, doesn't think so - but he understands why someone might think it is.... More →
- Shaping Welsh Government Policy with Research Evidence - The Wales Centre for Public Policy is helping to inform and shape policy decisions by presenting research evidence directly to government ministers, producing over 120 studies in the last five years – supporting effective policy making and benefiting public services across Wales.... More →
- Do Researchers Share New Information or Just Tell Practitioners what they Already Know? - When practitioners first learn about the matches we do at r4i, one question that sometimes arises is whether it’s worth taking the time to speak with a researcher? Here Adam Seth Levine uses the 2018 data to help answer this question.... More →
- Before Plan S, There Was Latin America's AmeliCA - Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication to an open one. In Latin America an open access ecosystem for scholarly publishing has been in place for over a decade. Could efforts like Plan S actually hurt this established initiative?... More →
- Which Public Universities Get Buckets of Private Money? - Even as government spending per-student for higher education institutions has been faltering in the United States, private money has been flowing in. But not all public institutions are getting the same amount of seed money from outsiders.... More →
- Whither the Children When Parents Are Incarcerated? - An estimated 312,000 children annually lose a parent to imprisonment in England and Wales. Dr. Shona Minson, is the winner for Outstanding Early Career Impact in the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2019.... More →
- Do We Turn Away from the 'Grimpact' of Some Research? - A critical blind spot in the impact agenda has been that impact is understood and defined solely in positive terms. Gemma Derrick and Paul Benneworth introduce the concept of ‘grimpact' to describe instances where research negatively impacts society. Researchers and science systems, they argue, are poorly equipped to deal with.... More →

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- Kayleigh Garthwaite on Foodbanks August 1, 2019
  “I think the debate about why people use the foodbanks has become really politicized to the point where apparently individual faults and failings are the reason why people are using them,” Kayleigh Garthwaite tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast. To find out, she volunteered to work at a Trussell Trust foodbank […]
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- Jonathan Portes on the Economics of Immigration July 1, 2019
  Britain's former chief economist knows a thing or two about the impact of immigration on native Britons. In this Social Science Bites podcast, he reviews what data can tell us about the UK's current heavy inflow -- such as that new arrivals create both supply AND demand.
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- Sam Friedman on Class June 5, 2019
  "Education," says sociologist Sam Friedman, “doesn’t wash away the effects of class background in terms of allocating opportunities. That’s quite profound – I believe there are a lot of people who believe quite strongly that these sorts of educational institutions can and do act as sort of meritocratic sorting houses.”
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- Monika Krause on Humanitarian Aid May 1, 2019
  Humanitarian aid organizations often find themselves torn by reasonable expectations – to address a pressing crisis and to show that what they are doing is actually helping. While these might not seem at odds, in practice, says sociologist Monika Krause, they often do. Krause, is the author of The Good Project, an award-winning book from […]
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