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Best Evidence and the What Works Clearinghouse
News
September 14, 2016

Best Evidence and the What Works Clearinghouse

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Book Review: Social Media for Academics
Bookshelf
July 26, 2016

Book Review: Social Media for Academics

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Experts on Economic Mobility Win 2016 Moynihan Prize
Recognition
March 2, 2016

Experts on Economic Mobility Win 2016 Moynihan Prize

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Don’t Sideline Social Science in Mad Dash for Innovation
Impact
December 10, 2015

Don’t Sideline Social Science in Mad Dash for Innovation

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Don’t Forget Academe When Decrypting Mystery of Radicalization

Don’t Forget Academe When Decrypting Mystery of Radicalization

The recent tragedies in Beirut, Paris and now San Bernardino reinforce the need for including the insights of scholars into efforts to understand motivations and curtail violence.

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World Bank Unveils Its Own ‘Nudge Unit’

World Bank Unveils Its Own ‘Nudge Unit’

The Global Insights Initiative, with its intriguing acronym of GINI, will bring experimentation to the World Bank’s poverty-fighting efforts by incorporating behavioral and social science into its project design and evaluation.

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Top 10 Ways Businesses and Academics Interact

Top 10 Ways Businesses and Academics Interact

The social sciences are catching up with other departments in helping shape businesses, writes Patrick Dunleavy, the general editor of the LSE’s new Business Review blog..

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AllTrials Opens Curtains on Clinical Trials

AllTrials Opens Curtains on Clinical Trials

The AllTrials campaign, which asks clinical researchers to register their trials and then release all the data gained, has come to the United States.

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Funding Social Science: A Primer on US Budgeting Process

Funding Social Science: A Primer on US Budgeting Process

Howard Silver examines the process in which federal research funding is arrived at — and points out how the process is, or isn’t, working in this Congress.

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Three Countries, Three Methods to Preserve Social Science

Three Countries, Three Methods to Preserve Social Science

A recent panel drew social science advocates from three countries – Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States – to the same stage to discuss preserving the disciplines’ sometimes tenuous hold on support from policymakers

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Tomorrow’s Britain Needs Social Science Today, Report Argues

Tomorrow’s Britain Needs Social Science Today, Report Argues

The Campaign for Social Science is asking the British government-to-be for a greater recognition of social science, arguing that the nation’s future prosperity will depend on it.

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Impact Requires Moving Past Conventional Academic Boundaries

Impact Requires Moving Past Conventional Academic Boundaries

The Dutch Senate last year passed a new Standard Evaluation Protocol that highlights the importance of social impact for research. Here, three academics from Erasmus University discuss some of the implications, using their own field of development studies as an example.

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