LSE Impact

On the Persistence of Motivated Ignorance
International Debate
January 18, 2021

On the Persistence of Motivated Ignorance

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Can We Have Open Science Where No Scholar Is Left Behind?
Open Access
December 29, 2020

Can We Have Open Science Where No Scholar Is Left Behind?

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Think of Impact Statements As Maps, Not Short Stories
Impact
December 9, 2020

Think of Impact Statements As Maps, Not Short Stories

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Reward and Recognize Open Science?
News
December 2, 2020

Reward and Recognize Open Science?

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How Can We Ensure Our Research is Inclusive?

How Can We Ensure Our Research is Inclusive?

COVID-19 has led to new ways of working which have transformed research practices. This has created opportunities for research cultures to be more inclusive and accessible- especially to those for whom the university is a barrier. However, post-pandemic, research cultures also need to change. In this post, Stuart Read, Anne Parfitt and Tanvir Bush outline three provocations that researchers can ask as part of an inclusive research practice.

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How to Run an Academic Writing Retreat

How to Run an Academic Writing Retreat

Since it started in 2011, Academic Writing Month has seen a growth of workshops and initiatives aimed at helping researchers to prioritise […]

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Do We Value Unfunded Research Properly?

Do We Value Unfunded Research Properly?

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.

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Social Science ‘Spinouts,’ An Underappreciated Pathway to Impact?

Social Science ‘Spinouts,’ An Underappreciated Pathway to Impact?

One means of fixing and making ideas tangible, often scorned and neglected in the social sciences, but widely used in STEM, are spinouts. For universities, a spinout is a company formed on the basis of intellectual property from a university or research institute.

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Might Commercializing Social Science Be a Road to Impact?

Might Commercializing Social Science Be a Road to Impact?

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 lockdown many opportunities have arisen to rethink how and for whom our societies operate. In this post, Julia Black argues that social sciences can play a unique role in the post-COVID-19 recovery by forging new relationships with business and commerce and outlines how initiatives, such as the Aspect network, are seeking to bridge the divide between the social sciences and business.

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Size Still Matters: Discoverability, Impact and ‘Big’ Journals

Size Still Matters: Discoverability, Impact and ‘Big’ Journals

One of the proposed advantages of open access publication is that it increases the impact of academic research by making it more broadly and easily accessible. Reporting on a natural experiment on the citation impact of health research that is published in both open access and subscription journals, Chris Carroll and Andy Tattersall, suggests that subscription journals still play an important role in making research discoverable and useful and thus still have a role to play even in open publication strategies.

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People Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used to Visualize COVID-19

People Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used to Visualize COVID-19

Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]

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How Behavioral Sciences Could Help More With COVID-19

How Behavioral Sciences Could Help More With COVID-19

Countries across the world have been turning to behavioral science in the fight against coronavirus. In May, The New Scientist proclaimed that ‘behavioral science is […]

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