Archives for June, 2018

The Promises and Limitations of Measuring Research Impact
News
June 29, 2018

The Promises and Limitations of Measuring Research Impact

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Arbitrary Choices and the Politics of Sociological Enquiry
Academic Funding
June 29, 2018

Arbitrary Choices and the Politics of Sociological Enquiry

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SciFoo18: The Joys of the Unstructured
Communication
June 28, 2018

SciFoo18: The Joys of the Unstructured

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Who Might Address Research Candidates’ Off-the-Charts Stress?
Higher Education Reform
June 26, 2018

Who Might Address Research Candidates’ Off-the-Charts Stress?

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Literature Reviews Are Already Broken, So Let’s Kill Them

Literature Reviews Are Already Broken, So Let’s Kill Them

The literature review is a staple of the scholarly article. But when reviews misrepresent previous studies or suggest there’s a paucity of information when there isn’t, doesn’t,this degrade the knowledge base? Richard P. Phelps argues that, given the difficulty of verifying an author’s claims during peer review, it is best that journals drop the requirement for a literature review in scholarly articles.

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Outlining the Many Beneficiaries of Evidence Week

Outlining the Many Beneficiaries of Evidence Week

The head of Sense about Science discusses the importance of public reasoning and accountability and why the first ever Evidence Week is a timely response to the changing demands of meeting those ideals, especially among politicians and policymakers. 

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Management is a Social Science

Management is a Social Science

Management is a fairly recent social science, but for a number of reasons, academics in this field are particularly challenged by students, peers and fellow social scientists. But with experience, management scholars can succeed in showing the contribution that social science can make to educating business students.

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The Conscience of the Racially Conscious: Ambalavener Sivanandan, 1923-2018

The Conscience of the Racially Conscious: Ambalavener Sivanandan, 1923-2018

Ambalavener Sivanandan, a former bank manager and then librarian who became an award-winning novelist and one of Britain’s foremost political thinkers on race, will be honored this Saturday at London’s Red Lion Square.

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ESRC 2018 Impact Prizes Range from Sex to Slavery

ESRC 2018 Impact Prizes Range from Sex to Slavery

Researchers whose work has made a real difference to society or the economy, ranging from detailing the true numbers of modern slavery to transforming how we teach about sexuality, were celebrated at the ESRC’s sixth annual Impact Prize awards ceremony at the Royal Society on today.

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ESRC Impact Prize Ceremony this Wednesday

ESRC Impact Prize Ceremony this Wednesday

The winners of the annual ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize will be announced Wednesday in an afternoon ceremony at the Royal Society. The Impact awards, now in their sixth year, are awarded to ESRC-funded social science researchers or ESRC associates who have achieved impact through outstanding research, collaborative partnerships, engagement or knowledge exchange activities.

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Cheryl Poth on the Nexus of Methodologies

Cheryl Poth on the Nexus of Methodologies

Attending a workshop conducted by John Creswell changed Cheryl Poth’s academic trajectory, confirming an earlier epiphany that purely quantitative approaches weren’t telling the whole story that methodology can reveal. A decade and half later, Poth -joined Creswell to craft a fourth edition of his venerable  “Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design.”.

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John Creswell on the Value of the Qualitative Approach

John Creswell on the Value of the Qualitative Approach

The the Textbook & Academic Authors Association has awarded the fourth edition of “Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design” its longevity award. In recognition of that, we talk with John Creswell, who has been behind the beloved book since its debut in the 1990s.

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