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Jan 24 2013
Research uptake and impact: are we in danger of overstating ourselves?
12 CommentsWary of the pressure that researchers are under to demonstrate impact, Louise Shaxson injects a dose of realism into the debate around what that impact ought to look like. Researchers must provide clear policy messages, carefully define the relevance of their research, be … Continue reading
Posted by: January 24, 2013
Jan 4 2013
OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences: Wrong risks and missed opportunities
4 CommentsHumanities and Social Sciences are facing oblivion unless researchers take this generational opportunity to reset the thinking and funding mechanisms. Cameron Neylon writes that it is time humanities and social science embrace open access or risk losing everything. Someone once … Continue reading
Posted by: January 4, 2013
Dec 28 2012
Our top five: Social media for dissemination
2 CommentsOur Impact of Social Sciences project team are certainly softies for social media and its potential for dissemination. Here are some of our (and your) favourite social media posts from the past year. Five minutes with Patrick Dunleavy and Chris … Continue reading
Posted by: December 28, 2012
Dec 27 2012
Our top five: How to write
5 CommentsOur posts with tips on how to write proved incredibly popular with our readers this year. Here are our top five most read, in decreasing order, for you to feast your eyes on… 30 tips for successful academic research and … Continue reading
Posted by: December 27, 2012
Dec 21 2012
Social media, impact factors and how to get writing: Our most popular blogs of the year
1 CommentAs the year closes, the Impact of Social Sciences project team took a walk down memory lane and found your top ten most read blog articles of the past year. Beginning with out most popular, Melissa Terras’ verdict on whether … Continue reading
Posted by: December 21, 2012
Dec 19 2012
What does it cost to publish a Gold Open Access article?
2 CommentsAn emerging preference for Gold Open Access publishing has been stirring emotions. Mike Taylor highlights where the Finch Report goes wrong on cost and argues that academics should redirect their anger at publishers taking $1973 from academia in return for … Continue reading
Posted by: December 19, 2012
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
Aug 22 2012
The long tail of academic publishing and why that isn’t a bad thing
2 CommentsUniversities are foolish to focus on academic superstars at the expense of staff that expand the ‘long tail’ of research. David Glance argues that increasing the numbers of academics who can publish and encouraging collaboration are better fixes than increasing … Continue reading
Posted by: August 22, 2012
Aug 12 2012
The books that inspired Sumantra Bose: “Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth touched a chord with both my national and personal background”
Comments OffSumantra Bose is Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the LSE with a specialty in ethnic and national conflicts. Here he discusses the book that inspired his early interest in politics and also about the contemporary works of fiction … Continue reading
Posted by: August 12, 2012
Aug 3 2012
Tracking research into practice: Are nurses on Twitter a good case study?
3 CommentsWe can only dream of tracking how research changes the way practitioners act in the real world… or can we? Cameron Neylon writes that Twitter can serve as a measure of the impact of researchers on digitally-literate professionals. The holy … Continue reading
Posted by: August 3, 2012
Tagged with: impact, Knowledge transfer, public engagement, social media
