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In Age of Open Science, Should Your Presentation Appear Online?
Career
February 12, 2019

In Age of Open Science, Should Your Presentation Appear Online?

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Transforming Research into an Illustrated Abstract
Communication
May 31, 2018

Transforming Research into an Illustrated Abstract

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Looking for Impact? Seek Feedback — Especially From Friends in High Places
Communication
January 17, 2017

Looking for Impact? Seek Feedback — Especially From Friends in High Places

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Shake By All Means, But Social Science is Not Natural Science
Higher Education Reform
October 14, 2014

Shake By All Means, But Social Science is Not Natural Science

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Shaken and Stirred: Christakis on Re-ordering Social Science

Shaken and Stirred: Christakis on Re-ordering Social Science

With one foot firmly planted in natural science and one in social science, Yale’s Nicholas A. Christakis looks at the landscape of the latter and wonders why it’s changed so little in the past century. Is it time for a common-sense, and yet radical, reshuffling of the institutional frameworks that we tend to accept as permanent?

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The Impact of Social Sciences Project by the Numbers

The Impact of Social Sciences Project by the Numbers

The Impact of Social Sciences blog emerged from a three-year research project devoted to a qualitative and quantitative understanding of the complexity of academic impact. To not let any impact-relevant knowledge dissolve away, Jane Tinkler takes a look back at the outputs, outcomes and connections made throughout the research process.

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Social Sciences Learn the Tactical Benefits of Concentration

Social Sciences Learn the Tactical Benefits of Concentration

As it is released in North America, a book on the impact of social science in Britain suggests guidance for raising the disciplines’ profiles in the U.S. and beyond.

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LSE Study Offers More Ammunition for Social Sciences’ Defense

LSE Study Offers More Ammunition for Social Sciences’ Defense

A live-streamed panel discussion this week will officially launch a new effort to demonstrate the pocketbook benefits of social science in Britain and beyond.

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Lessons from civil society

Lessons from civil society

As academics think about impact, they can draw on some of the lessons and strategic approaches used by civil society and campaigning groups.

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The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity

The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity

The controversy over BBC journalists’ use of a student tour group linked to the London School of Economics should not be allowed to go away quietly.

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Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research

Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research

“The social scientists we could do business with were those who grounded their ideas through field studies, cultural probes and social data”.

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Numerical indigestion: how much data is really good for us?

Numerical indigestion: how much data is really good for us?

We are swimming in ‘big data’ and despite their performances as advocates of data freedom, policymakers don’t seem to bear any responsibility for educating the public on how to read it.

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