Impact

New Report Offers Roadmap for Impactful Business School Research
Business and Management INK
October 14, 2021

New Report Offers Roadmap for Impactful Business School Research

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Getting a Handle on Both Societal and Scientific Impact
Impact
October 13, 2021

Getting a Handle on Both Societal and Scientific Impact

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Nobelist David Card Made the Minimum Wage Respectable
Recognition
October 12, 2021

Nobelist David Card Made the Minimum Wage Respectable

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NAS Creates Council to Address Research Integrity and Trust
Announcements
October 7, 2021

NAS Creates Council to Address Research Integrity and Trust

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Connecting Research to Policy is Hard. Must Academics Do It on Their Own?

Connecting Research to Policy is Hard. Must Academics Do It on Their Own?

Jenny Bird discusses five reasons that make it difficult for individual academics to engage in the policymaking process and suggests that dedicated policy units present an important mechanism for supporting both learning about and increasing the impact of academic research on policy.

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Recalling the Founding of the ‘Journal of Black Studies’ a Half Century Ago

Recalling the Founding of the ‘Journal of Black Studies’ a Half Century Ago

A few months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, two Black social scientists in Southern California approached a fledgling academic publisher with a unique proposition: let us launch a journal for another fledgling — the discipline of Black studies.

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Marian Wright Edelman to Receive 2022 Moyhnihan Prize

Marian Wright Edelman to Receive 2022 Moyhnihan Prize

Children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman, the founder or the Children’s Defense Fund and its leader for four decades, will receive the 2022 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

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Webinar: Measuring Societal Impact in Business Research: From Challenges to Change

Webinar: Measuring Societal Impact in Business Research: From Challenges to Change

Listen to SAGE’s webinar on new ways we can look at and measure the societal impact of research within Business & Management. […]

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With COVID and Climate Change Showing Social Science’s Value, Why Cut it Now?

With COVID and Climate Change Showing Social Science’s Value, Why Cut it Now?

What are the three biggest challenges Australia faces in the next five to ten years? What role will the social sciences play in resolving these challenges? The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia asked these questions in a discussion paper earlier this year. The backdrop to this review is cuts to social science disciplines around the country, with teaching taking priority over research.

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Librarian Pilots the Path Linking Open Scholarship and Impact

Librarian Pilots the Path Linking Open Scholarship and Impact

The Association of Research Libraries has named North Carolina State open knowledge librarian to head a pilot program, Accelerating the Social Impact of Research.

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Albert Bandura, 1925-2021: The Social Psychologist Who Transformed How We Think of Learning and Morality

Albert Bandura, 1925-2021: The Social Psychologist Who Transformed How We Think of Learning and Morality

Albert Bandura, a renowned social cognitive psychologist most well-known for his Bobo doll experiments studying aggression, died on July 26 at the age of 95.

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Geert Hofstede, 1928-2020: The Engineer of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Geert Hofstede, 1928-2020: The Engineer of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Twenty years ago the second edition of one of the more influential books in social science, Geert Hofstede’s Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations, appeared.

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