Tag: Campaign for Social Science

Campaign for Social Science Report Argues for International Staff Safety Net

By Social Science Space | Published: November 7, 2018

Three out of every 10 academics working in UK universities, finds a new report from the Campaign for Social Science, are nationals or originally from a country outside the United Kingdom (60 percent from the European economic area. This influx, according to the advocacy organization, is a key element allowing Britain to “punch above its […]

Posted in Bookshelf, Brexit, International Debate, Public Policy | Also tagged International Staff | Leave a comment

Economist Paul Johnson Says the Known Knowns Are Killing Us

By Social Science Space | Published: November 1, 2018

Paul Johnson had one key theme in his SAGE Publishing lecture for the Campaign for Social Science: Long-term policy needs to be developed across government based on a broad understanding of the social and economic trends. And there is little evidence that this lesson is being heeded.

Posted in Brexit, Communication, International Debate | Also tagged Economics, Paul Johnson | Leave a comment

Report: Math Skills Increasingly Important for Social Science Grads

By Social Science Space | Published: June 8, 2018

A new report from Britain’s Campaign for Social Science, Positive Prospects: Careers for Social Scientists and Why Data and Number Skills Matter, argues that at least for the social sciences, graduates in the United Kingdom can find work and will make as much as the body of physical science and technology graduates that are held up as the most marketable.

Posted in Career, Communication, Impact | Also tagged Positive Prospects | Leave a comment

Campaign for Social Science Adds Four to Board

By Campaign for Social Science | Published: February 15, 2018

Britain's Campaign for Social Science has announced the appointment of four new board members, drawing on extensive research, public policy and practitioner social science expertise.

Posted in Announcements, Career, Recognition | Tagged Campaign for Social Science | Leave a comment

Louise Richardson: Educational Divide Fuels Corrosive Populism

By Campaign for Social Science | Published: November 28, 2017

Speaking before a sell-out audience of policymakers, journalists and academics in Whitehall, Louise Richardson FAcSS, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford, said we must bridge the educational divide to prevent populism for threatening democracy

Posted in Impact, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged Academy of Social Sciences, expertise, Inequality, Lecture, Louise Richardson, Populism | Leave a comment

Campaign Releases Toolkit for Demonstrating Impact

By Social Science Space | Published: October 20, 2017

An online tool aimed at helping researchers demonstrate their work’s impact to policymakers has been launched by the Campaign for Social Science in collaboration with Cardiff University. While it's focused on Wales, the toolkit is seen as a template for working with other governments

Posted in Impact | Also tagged Pathways to Impact, Wales | Leave a comment

Shamit Saggar New Chair for Campaign for Social Science

By Campaign for Social Science | Published: September 5, 2017

Shamit Saggar from the University of Essex has been appointed to be the new head of the UK's Campaign for Social Science.

Posted in Recent Appointments, Recognition | Also tagged James Wilsdon, Shamit Saggar | Leave a comment

Health of People: Prevention and Behavior Change

By Social Science Space | Published: March 31, 2017

'There isn’t one of the major health care conditions which isn’t related to human behavior,' says Susan Michie,the chair of the Health of People working group. Which leads to a very obvious policy and practice conclusion ...

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Social Science and Health Service Delivery

By Social Science Space | Published: March 28, 2017

A pending report from the Campaign for Social Science, titled, "The Health of People," will make the case about the importance of social and behavioral science to health policy and practice in Britain. A video from the report's contributors teases some of the arguments that will be made.

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Enough of Experts? Data, Democracy and the Future of Expertise

By SAGE | Published: November 28, 2016

Expertise in governing has been under attack, argues Beth Simone Noveck, but not just in recent demagogic attacks on “the elites.” For years, she explains in the annual SAGE/Campaign for Social Science lecture delivered November 22 in London, the expertise of the populace has been structurally excluded from the levers of power.

Posted in Public Policy | Also tagged Beth Noveck, Crowdsourcing, expertise | Leave a comment

Witherspoon: We Must Show How We Create a Public Good

By Campaign for Social Science | Published: December 10, 2015

In the third annual Campaign for Social Science/SAGE lecture, Sharon Witherspoon said we must show the ways ‘social science can give rise to public benefit’

Posted in Communication, Public Policy | Also tagged Public Good, Sharon Witherspoon | Leave a comment

James Wilsdon on the 2015 Spending Review

By James Wilsdon | Published: November 25, 2015

The Campaign for Social Science welcomes the relative protection given to the science budget in the spending review, says its chair, James Wilsdon, but it’s premature to see this as a good outcome for the long term health of the UK’s research base.

Posted in Academic Funding, Public Policy | Also tagged Spending Review | Leave a comment

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