Impact

Impact in Action: Kevin Bales
Career
January 7, 2019

Impact in Action: Kevin Bales

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Impact in Action: Abigail Dymond
Career
January 4, 2019

Impact in Action: Abigail Dymond

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Impact in Action: Matt Flinders
Impact
January 3, 2019

Impact in Action: Matt Flinders

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Impact in Action: Brett Heasman
Impact
January 2, 2019

Impact in Action: Brett Heasman

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The A to Z: Tips for Writing an Impact Case Study

The A to Z: Tips for Writing an Impact Case Study

With submission to REF 2021 now less than two years away, university staff and academics are stepping up work to present their best examples of research impact. Sally Brown has compiled this useful A to Z to form compelling impact case studies.

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Ebola Response and the Utility of Social Science

Ebola Response and the Utility of Social Science

The Congo’s devastating Ebola outbreak demands that a critical component of that international response should be to rapidly identify and deploy national and international social scientists, with knowledge of the local context, who can work together to develop the protocols and tools needed to implement social science research so essential for outbreak control.

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For 2019, Resolve to Grant Overdue Recognition

For 2019, Resolve to Grant Overdue Recognition

The Golden Goose Awards, which honor scientists whose research the U.S. government funded even though the initial premise may not have screamed ‘immediate application,’ is looking for a few good social scientists to honor.

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Chetty, Crenshaw, Krugman Among AAPSS Inductees for 2019

Chetty, Crenshaw, Krugman Among AAPSS Inductees for 2019

The American Academy of Political and Social Science announced today five eminent scholars who will join the academy as fellows in 2019: Raj Chetty, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Paul Krugman, Nicholas Lemann, Alondra Nelson will officially join the academy on the evening of October 3, 2019, in a ceremony in Washington, DC.

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Finance is a Subject Social Science Must Study

Finance is a Subject Social Science Must Study

If we are to hope to find a solution to the instability of the financial system, write the team behind a new edited volume, it is important to present finance as a social and political space.

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Metricization, the SSCI Syndrome and Devaluing Books in Academic Sociology

Metricization, the SSCI Syndrome and Devaluing Books in Academic Sociology

Is scholarship that doesn’t appear in the Social Science Citation Index — a commercial index of ‘internationally leading’ journals in the social sciences, compiled by Clarivate Analytics — worthless? Before you say ‘Of course not,’ know that some universities essentially are saying yes.

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Did Emile Durkheim Foresee Today’s Chaos?

Did Emile Durkheim Foresee Today’s Chaos?

Emile Durkheim, one of the pioneers of the discipline of sociology, died 101 years ago this month. Although few outside of social science departments know his name, his intellectual legacy may provide us with some assistance in diagnosing the perennial problems associated with modernity.

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Social Science Data Solving Social Housing Problems

Social Science Data Solving Social Housing Problems

The ESRC describes Knowledge Transfer Partnerships as a relationship between a company/organization and staff in a knowledge base institution in which the the institution’s knowledge base is applied to a challenge presented by the organization. Here, Farida Mustafazade describes her experience in such a partnership.

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