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In the previous post Mathew Flinders identified the ways in which collaborative research touches the emotions of academics and places different kinds […]
The simple fact is that deep, embedded, collaborative research whereby researchers work hand-in-hand with community participants in order to reveal […]
What does Congress want from the National Science Foundation? This content analysis study conducted by Alison Beatty, Arthur Lupia and Stuart Soroka discusses the general trends and focuses on the NSF by Congress based on remarks made between 1995 to 2018.
In a paper published by Royal Society Open Science, a team of researchers ask a more detailed question of the process, “Are replication rates the same across academic fields?’
Unfunded research takes time and money for already stretched academics. Yet it makes up over a quarter of all research carried out in British universities. Rosalind Edwards spoken to academics about why they do unfunded research.
Fabian Fabiano and Nick Haslam researched whether the standard manual of psychiatry was creating runaway diagnostic inflation. Here they explain what they found.
Much has been discussed in recent years about research practices in social sciences. Debates around acceptable research practices has sometimes […]
In the wake of COVID-19, researchers can become trusted figures of authority who can purposely use their institutional privilege and re-appropriate their research networks, skills and knowledge to better the lives of vulnerable populations during a pandemic.
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard […]
Ashley Mears describes modern jet-setting club life at the VIP level and the Veblen-esque conspicuous consumption, its “ritualized squandering” in Mears words, that is its hallmark.
The big idea The scientific community worldwide has mobilized with unprecedented speed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emerging […]
Editor’s Note: This resource will evolve over time. If you’ve seen impact-related language on a grant application and would like […]
