Looking for something to read? Here’s a quick look at what other people are reading on the Impact Blog. This page shows a continually updated list of the past week’s 20 most popular blog posts by readership. We know readership statistics aren’t everything, but it’s a useful place to start!
- Planning on writing over the holidays? Here is how to do it
- Coding for and as social science
- Do no harm? – What development practice can teach us about negative impact
- A PhD is not just a degree – it is an opportunity to develop the skills needed to deliver impact
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of social media research tools (2019)
- The death of the literature review and the rise of the dynamic knowledge map
- As schools become suffused with ed-tech, is the only response to constant surveillance the right to remain silent?
- Do the best academics fly more?
- Are 90% of academic papers really never cited? Reviewing the literature on academic citations.
- What is the difference between an impact and an outcome? Impact is the longer term effect of an outcome.
- A PhD by publication is a great way to build your academic profile, but be mindful of its challenges
- Using LinkedIn for Social Research
- Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
- How to write a killer conference abstract: The first step towards an engaging presentation.
- Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of social media research tools (updated for 2017)
- How to keep up to date with the literature but avoid information overload
- What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?
- Academic travel culture is not only bad for the planet, it is also bad for the diversity and equity of research.
- Evidence matters, but ideas shape policy in more fundamental ways than we might realise
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