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Tag Archives: Knowledge transfer
Nov 13 2012
8 steps to making your research punch above its weight
3 CommentsHow can researchers ensure their work has a lasting impact? Thinking about knowledge exchange early in your project can help you target and tick the right boxes. Mark Reed lists his eight steps to targeting, designing and sustaining the external impact of … Continue reading
Posted by: November 13, 2012
Tagged with: impact, Knowledge transfer
Oct 19 2012
Evidence alone is not enough: policymakers must be able to access relevant evidence if their policy is to work
Comments OffIt is not enough to look for evidence of a previous policy success. Jeremy Hardie and Nancy Cartwright argue that exactly what evidence is needed, and of what, is the key question that needs to be asked for making real evidence-based social policy … Continue reading
Posted by: October 19, 2012
Tagged with: evidence-based policy, government, impact, Knowledge transfer
Oct 12 2012
How and when social scientists in Government contribute to policy
1 CommentDoes a PhD allow social scientists in Government to climb the career ladder and make a difference to government policy? Mariell Juhlin, Puay Tang and Jordi Molas Gallart find that social scientists working within government benefit from an ‘expert’ effect as having an academic background … Continue reading
Posted by: October 12, 2012
Tagged with: government, impact, Knowledge transfer
Oct 11 2012
Knowledge mobilisation is a social process: Social media can support individuals and organisations in research dissemination
4 CommentsAlready an active user of social media, David Phipps has recently been thinking about its potential as an academic tool. He concludes that knowledge mobilisation is continuing to evolve and that social media could grow into a powerful tool for … Continue reading
Posted by: October 11, 2012
Tagged with: digital era, impact, Knowledge transfer, social media
Oct 4 2012
Writing for Wikipedia has forced me into good scholarly habits and accessible writing
Comments OffWhere Wikipedia has poor-quality articles, we should regard it as a great opportunity, argues Martin Poulter. Researchers and educators, especially in social science, should get involved in improving the site both for its educational value and to promote their areas … Continue reading
Posted by: October 4, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, digital era, impact, Knowledge transfer, public engagement
Oct 2 2012
There’s a disconnect between “scholarly value” and how we reach audiences who need research
2 CommentsFed up of hearing that ‘outreach work is a stupid idea and a huge career mistake’, Li-Shih Huang argues that impact assessment must be not so narrow-minded and elitist. She writes that teaching and research nourish each other and that … Continue reading
Posted by: October 2, 2012
Tagged with: impact, Knowledge transfer, Research Excellence Framework
Sep 28 2012
The time is ripe for collaboration: Co-produced research is needed by academics and NGOs to demonstrate impact
4 CommentsToo many academics remain rooted in a mentality that fears engaging with practitioners means reducing the credibility of their work. Rachel Hayman calls for greater collaboration and an end to wasted academic work despite the considerable barriers that lie between academia … Continue reading
Posted by: September 28, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, impact, Knowledge transfer, public engagement
Sep 26 2012
Making academic knowledge useful to policy : why “supply” solutions are not the whole story
2 CommentsWhen looking at how academic knowledge informs policy there is a heavy emphasis on the need for academics to improve their communication and dissemination of outputs to fit better into the policy framework. John Parkinson argues that the speed and oversimplification … Continue reading
Posted by: September 26, 2012
Tagged with: impact, Knowledge transfer, policy-making
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
Sep 14 2012
Ideas matter: The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf assigns the paternity of the new ECB policy to LSE Prof Paul de Grauwe
1 CommentWhen academics influence policy, attribution from commentators and policymakers can be relatively rare. Professor Luis Garicano was therefore delighted when Martin Wolf of the Financial Times recently judged that last week’s announcement that the European Central Bank will alter the way it … Continue reading
Posted by: September 14, 2012
Tagged with: impact, Knowledge transfer, policy-making
