Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
How to Carefully Choose Useless Titles for Academic Writing
An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for. Without embedded cues, your work will sit undisturbed on other scholars’ PDF libraries, or languish unread among hundreds of millions of other documents on the Web. That must be what what we want, based on on what we do.
Social Sciences Learn the Tactical Benefits of Concentration
As it is released in North America, a book on the impact of social science in Britain suggests guidance for raising the disciplines’ profiles in the U.S. and beyond.
Measuring Impact Via Influence, Not Bank Balance
A new project from the British Academy sets down the calculator in the latest attempt to tot up the value of the social sciences and humanities.
Two Myths and One Truth About Congressional Testimony
Impact is all the rage right now, but what happens when you’re finally given a path to a bully pulpit? Testimony is only the tip of the iceberg – there’s much more opportunity if you look a little deeper.
The Ongoing Evolution of Universities into Newsrooms
Social media and alternative ways of measuring academic impact are helping turn universities into giant newsrooms, argues Maxine Newlands. That’s not necessarily bad, and it may be inevitable.
Surveying the Terrain of Science’s Public Outreach Past
The campaign to communicate the impact of the social sciences has been compared to the era of the Bodmer report. Here’s a quick primer on that 1985 effort and some of the history of publicizing science in the UK.
Look in the Mirror to Find Social Science’s Champion
Addressing the value of social science, Skip Lupia argues it’s absolutely fair for Congress to hold the disciplines’ feet to the fire, and absolutely necessary for researchers themselves to come to their own defense.
‘Value for Money’ Is Not the Same as Quality in Higher Ed
In the past 15 years and across successive governments in the United Kingdom, the concept of value for money has been internalized throughout higher education. Here, the author of “Consuming Higher Education: Why Learning Can’t Be Bought” outlines why it is a problem to use student choice and value for money as a means of holding universities to account.
