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Achieving Impact for Early-Career Researchers

By Megan Evans and Chris Cvitanovic | Published: August 15, 2018

For many early-career researchers, the practicalities of how to successfully influence policy processes can be elusive, causing problems. Megan Evans and Chris Cvitanovic provide some practical tips and suggestions...

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Mahzarin Banaji on Implicit Bias

By Social Science Bites | Published: August 2, 2018

“The brain is an association-seeking machine,” Harvard social psychologist Mahzarin R. Banaji tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast. “It puts things...

Also posted in Social Science Bites | Tagged Bias, Implicit Bias, Mahzarin Banaji, Social Psychology | 1 Response

Evidence-Based Policy: Do Knowledge Brokers Help?

By Sarah Quarmby | Published: July 5, 2018

We need to bridge the gap between academic research and public policy. Sarah Quarmby takes a look inside a knowledge brokering organization, the Wales Centre for...

Also posted in Public Policy | Tagged Evidence-Based Policy, LSE Impact, What Works Centers | Leave a comment

Management is a Social Science

By Joel Bothello and Thomas Roulet | Published: June 22, 2018

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...

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity | Tagged Impostor Syndrome, management | Leave a comment

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

By Michael Todd, Social Science Space editor | Published: June 20, 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...

Also posted in Early Career, Interdisciplinarity | Tagged Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Passings, Race & Class | Leave a comment

ESRC 2018 Impact Prizes Range from Sex to Slavery

By ESRC | Published: June 20, 2018

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...

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ESRC Impact Prize Ceremony this Wednesday

By ESRC | Published: June 18, 2018

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...

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Report: Math Skills Increasingly Important for Social Science Grads

By Social Science Space | Published: June 8, 2018

A new report from Britain’s Campaign for Social Science, Positive Prospects: Careers for Social Scientists and Why Data and Number Skills Matter, argues that at...

Also posted in Communication, Early Career | Tagged Campaign for Social Science, Positive Prospects | Leave a comment

Pair to Receive Economic Statistics’ Shiskin Award

By Social Science Space | Published: May 22, 2018

Barry Bosworth, the Robert V. Roosa Chair in International Economics at the Brookings Institution, and Danny Pfeffermann, director of Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, will...

Also posted in Recognition | Tagged Economic Statistics, Julius Shiskin, Statistics | Leave a comment

The Value of Big Data Creation

By SAGE | Published: May 12, 2018

How do firms transform big data and why do firms differ in their abilities to create value from big data? in a research article that...

Also posted in Bookshelf, Communication, Research | Tagged Big Data, Resource Management, Strategic Organization | Leave a comment

Research Must Try to Influence Change

By James Georgalakis | Published: April 26, 2018

There is no doubt that good communications and framing research for your audience is important to influencing policy and having impact. But shouldn’t we be...

Also posted in Higher Education Reform | Tagged Evidence-Based Policy, Knowledge Exchange | Leave a comment

Impact Still Helping Higher Education; But at What Cost?

By Tina Basi and Mona Sloane | Published: April 25, 2018

Tina Basi and Mona Sloane argue that REF 2021 offers the opportunity to frame a discussion on the purpose of universities that is less focused...

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Public Policy | Tagged Evidence-Based Policy, Knowledge Exchange | Leave a comment

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Impact

Achieving Impact for Early-Career Researchers

Mahzarin Banaji on Implicit Bias

Evidence-Based Policy: Do Knowledge Brokers Help?

Management is a Social Science

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

ESRC 2018 Impact Prizes Range from Sex to Slavery

ESRC Impact Prize Ceremony this Wednesday

Report: Math Skills Increasingly Important for Social Science Grads

Pair to Receive Economic Statistics’ Shiskin Award

The Value of Big Data Creation

Research Must Try to Influence Change

Impact Still Helping Higher Education; But at What Cost?

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