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Feb 11 2013
5 Minutes with Professor Rachel Pain: “Research capacity is our greatest resource, and collaboration at any level has the potential to make for excellent research”
2 CommentsRachel Pain talks with Mark Carrigan to discuss the impact agenda, collaborative research, and the distinct opportunities and challenges posed to the academic community by the Research Excellence Framework (REF2014). She finds that now is the time for universities to … Continue reading
Posted by: February 11, 2013
Nov 2 2012
5 Minutes with Richard Lambert: “It’s a real shortcoming that academics are not good at communicating their research to the outside world”
Comments OffAs part of the Impact of Social Sciences’ project interview series, Richard Lambert tells Rebecca Mann of the opportunities for social scientists in the world of business, and the need for intermediaries to translate academic research into arguments that readers … Continue reading
Posted by: November 2, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, impact
Oct 5 2012
Five Minutes with Bernardo Huberman : “There are real opportunities for social scientists to turn their tools into something applicable to the real world”
Comments OffContinuing a series of interviews from PPG’s Impact of Social Sciences project, Rebecca Mann spoke with Bernardo Huberman, who is Director of the Social Computing Research Group at HP Labs and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Here, he explains why … Continue reading
Posted by: October 5, 2012
Sep 19 2012
Five minutes with Prabhakar Raghavan: Big data and social science at Google
6 CommentsPart of PPG’s Impact of Social Sciences project focuses on how academic research in the social sciences influences decision-makers in business, government and civil society. We will cover a series of salient viewpoints emerging from this interview programme on the … Continue reading
Posted by: September 19, 2012
Tagged with: Business, Google+, Knowledge transfer
Apr 27 2012
5 Minutes with Julian Huppert MP: “We need more people with a scientific background in Parliament”.
2 CommentsFirst a scientist, now a Liberal Democrat MP in Parliament, Julian Huppert has successfully crossed the borders of the political and academic worlds. Here, he tells the LSE Impact blog team why the House of Commons should be a career … Continue reading
Posted by: April 27, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, government, impact, public engagement
Apr 20 2012
5 Minutes with Steve Keen: “Hopefully George Osborne may end up reading a blog that throws up an idea that looks outside the mainstream advice”
Comments OffSteve Keen was one of a few economists that publicly predicted the economic crisis and his economic ideas constitute a drastic departure from mainstream economic tenets. In this conversation, he talks to Joel Suss about the importance of academic blogging in getting his … Continue reading
Posted by: April 20, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, Blogging, digital era, impact, public engagement, social media
Mar 16 2012
Five Minutes with Tim Gowers and Tyler Neylon: “The boycott has made Elsevier more concerned about its public image”.
Comments OffEarlier this year Tim Gowers sparked debate about the future of academic publishing when he declared his intentions to boycott Elsevier. With Tyler Neylon’s work on the Cost of Knowledge website, the pair discuss how they made a splash in … Continue reading
Posted by: March 16, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, Elsevier Boycott, impact, journals, open access
Mar 9 2012
Five minutes with Mark Blyth: “Turn it into things people can understand, let go of the academese, and people will engage”
1 CommentMark Blyth became the accidental star of the political blogosphere last year when he appeared in a video promoting the key message behind his upcoming book ‘Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea’. Here he explains why being unreadable helps … Continue reading
Posted by: March 9, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, Blogging, digital era, impact, Knowledge transfer, public engagement, Video
Mar 2 2012
Five minutes with Alice Roberts: “During my academic career I’ve encountered considerable opposition to engagement with the public”
3 CommentsAlice Roberts, Birmingham University’s new Professor of Public Engagement takes five minutes to talk to the LSE Impact blog team about the public’s thirst for knowledge, how communicating research is not a frivolity and why she hopes her new appointment is … Continue reading
Posted by: March 2, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, public engagement, television
Feb 24 2012
Five minutes with Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson: “Blogging is quite simply, one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now”.
18 CommentsAhead of the launch of EUROPP – an academic blog investigating matters of European politics and policy – next week, Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson discuss social scientists’ obligation to spread their research to the wider world and how blogging … Continue reading
Posted by: February 24, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic publishing, Blogging, digital era, impact, Knowledge transfer, public engagement, social media, twitter
