
Should PhD Students Be Trained to Make an Impact?
In addition to thesis writing, PhD candidates in SHAPE subjects are expected to be able to communicate their research to […]
5 months agoA space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
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In addition to thesis writing, PhD candidates in SHAPE subjects are expected to be able to communicate their research to […]
5 months agoWe present this article, adapted from a chapter of ‘Good Essay Writing: A Social Sciences Guide,’ as a resource for Academic Writing Month.
5 months agoProfessor Roger Hood CBE, QC (Hon), PhD, DCL, LLD (Hon), FBA, known for his immense contributions to the international discipline […]
5 months agoFrom scholarly article to practical guides, from textbooks to media, from weighty tomes to tweets, researchers and academic writers have […]
5 months agoThe social sciences have a crucial role to play in the COVID-19 recovery, and in addressing many other challenges society […]
5 months agoWilliam Poole takes an alternative approach to the usual ‘how-to’ blog format for academic writing. An avid reader of conclusions, with an aversion to writing them, the author presents an altogether inconclusive reflection on the form and function of the conclusion.
5 months agoSocial sciences, humanities and the arts can help us in our endeavors, which is why we, along with the British Academy and others, have recently launched SHAPE: Social sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy
5 months agoThe social sciences are recognized for their role in evaluating policy and offering practice-based interventions about ‘what works’. However, they […]
6 months agoFrom vaccinations to climate change, getting science wrong has very real consequences. But journal articles, a primary way science is […]
6 months agoZiyad Marar, president of global publishing at SAGE Publishing, has been elected to the Fellowship of Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences, making him just the second publisher to be so named in the history of Academy’s fellowship program. Marar, whose accomplishments include launching Social Science Space in 2011, joins 72 other fellows in the 2020 cohort.
6 months agoWhat makes a webinar presentation feel stale? You probably know ’em when you experience ’em. But how do you escape that trap in your own presentation, Echo Rivera is here to help …
6 months ago‘Action oriented research’ is research which explores socially relevant problems by bridging worlds of theory and practice, which involves collaboration between practitioners (and other research ‘consumers’) and academics and which shortens pathways to impact by combining research production with research use in situ
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