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Wolfson Foundation Funds £10 Million HSS Initiative With British Academy

By Social Science Space | Published: October 26, 2018

Making its largest-ever grant in the social sciences and humanities, the Wolfson Foundation awarded the British Academy £10 million to promote high quality research. Under the initiative, the British Academy will create a fellowship program to support early career researchers, develop an international community of scholars and create an intellectual hub at the academy’s London home on Carlton House Terrace.

Posted in Academic Funding, Announcements, Career | Also tagged William Gladstone, Wolfson Foundation | Leave a comment

British Academy Elects Largest Number of Fellows in Its History

By British Academy | Published: July 22, 2018

A record 76 academics -- four of them alumni of the Social Science Bites podcast series here at Social Science Space -- have been elected as fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their achievements in the humanities and social sciences.

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British Academy Elects a Full Slate of New Fellows

By British Academy | Published: July 21, 2014

The British Academy last week elected a full slate of distinguished UK academics from 19 universities as fellows for 2014. The 42 new fellows span the full range of the British Academy’s subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, from history to psychology, economics to law, literature to philosophy and languages to archaeology. These […]

Posted in Career, Recognition | Also tagged Fellowships | Leave a comment

OA in Britain: We Have a Rule, Now Let’s Get Some Data

By Michael Todd | Published: April 22, 2014

The landscape for open access in Britain's social science and humanities fields is very different and very similar to the better studied STEM fields, a new report from the British Academy finds.

Posted in Open Access | Also tagged Gold OA, Green OA, Humanities | Leave a comment

Please Take A More Open View Of Openness

By Ben Johnson | Published: April 18, 2014

Ben Johnson posits that frequently asked questions concerning open access implementation for particular disciplines arise from an incomplete conception of the nature of openness that neglects one vital component: connection.

Posted in Impact, Open Access | Also tagged HEFCE | Leave a comment

Nigel Vincent reflects on the Open Access monograph challenge

By British Academy | Published: July 5, 2013

Monographs are an intrinsically important mode of academic production and must not be sacrificed on the altar of open access, argues Nigel Vincent in Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy.

Posted in Open Access, Public Policy | Also tagged Monographs, Nigel Vincent, Publishing | Leave a comment

Using Quantitative Skills in Business

By British Academy | Published: May 1, 2013

Quantitative Skills (QS) can make you highly employable across many industries. Find out from these two entrepreneurs how their QS helped them succeed in the private sector.

Posted in Career, Research | Also tagged Business, Early Career, James Daunt, Joe Twyman, PhD skills, Statistics | 1 Response

Big Data: Benefit to Society, or Drowning in a Data Deluge?

By SAGE | Published: November 12, 2012

With larger data sets offering researchers the potential to look at more subtle interactions, big data is becoming increasingly valuable to social sciences, yet challenges remain.

Have the Social Sciences Failed Us?

By andrewgamble | Published: May 22, 2012

On 16 April, Aditya Chakrabortty wrote an article for the Guardian's Comment is Free, arguing that social scientists have failed to step up and offer alternatives in the wake of the economic crisis. Here, Andrew Gamble FBA responds.

My Social Science Career: Special Edition with Milena Zic-Fuchs

By Social Science Space | Published: May 14, 2012

An open letter was published online calling for social science and humanities research to be integrated into the new European Framework. Professor Milena Zic-Fuchs spoke to socialsciencespace about the reasons for the open letter and the reaction that it has received.

Social scientists’ role in strengthening trust in scientific evidence

By SAGE | Published: November 9, 2011

Originally posted to the SAGE Connection blog Last week was the ESRC’s annual festival of social science. This is the third year that SAGE has participated in a joint event with the British Academy, and forms part of our ongoing mission to champion the value and relevance of the social sciences. As Global Publishing Director […]

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