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The impact agenda is set to shape the way in which social scientists prioritise the work they choose to pursue, the research methods they use and how they publish their findings over the coming decade, but how much is currently known about how social science research has made a mark on society?
Based on a three year research project studying the impact of 360 UK-based academics on business, government and civil society sectors, this groundbreaking new book undertakes the most thorough analysis yet of how academic research in the social sciences achieves public policy impacts, contributes to economic prosperity, and informs public understanding of policy issues as well as economic and social changes. The Impact of the Social Sciences addresses and engages with key issues, including: identifying ways to conceptualise and model impact in the social sciences; developing more sophisticated ways to measure academic and external impacts of social science research; explaining how impacts from individual academics, research units and universities can be improved.
This book is essential reading for researchers, academics and anyone involved in discussions about how to improve the value and impact of funded research.
Social Science for a Digital Era
Social Science for a Digital Era
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little.
In one of his essays (on ‘Old Age’) the nineteenth century author Ralph Waldo ...
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