LSE Impact Blog
A forum for those interested in increasing the impact of social sciences on government policy, society and business.Views are not those of the LSE.
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Book Review: The Joy of Search
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In this repost, Jill O’Neil reviews Daniel M. Russell’s The Joy of Search: A google insiders guide to going beyond the basics. Finding the book to offer a lively means of helping users …
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LSE Impact Blog The Joy of Search: A Review #Search #DiscoveryTools 3d
Using mobile applications for social science research
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In this post Dr Reka Solymosi & Dr Michael Chataway discuss the use of mobile phone applications as a research method in the social sciences. Reflecting on their own use of apps to study fear o…
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LSE Impact Blog Using mobile applications for social science research #SocialScience 3d
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LSE Impact Blog Using mobile applications for social science research #Apps #ResearchMethods 36h
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India’s retrospective review of PhD research quality is set to significantly change research practices
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India’s University Grants Commission recently invited proposals to retrospectively assess the quality of PhD theses awarded by the country’s universities over the past 10 years. In this post Santos…
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LSE Impact Blog India’s retrospective review of PhD research quality is set to significantly change research practices #UGC #PhDchat 3d
Many a true word is spoken in jest: Twitter accounts that mock, self-ridicule and bring a smile to academia.
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Academic Twitter is more than just sharing research articles and live-tweeting at conferences. Andy Tattersall gives an overview of the humorous accounts that aim to pull back the curtain on the Iv…
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LSE Impact Blog Many a true word is spoken in jest: Twitter accounts that mock, self-ridicule and bring a smile to academia. #AcademicTwitter 4d
The careers of carers – A numerical adjustment cannot level the playing field for researchers who take time off to care for children
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Quantitative measures of the effect of caring for children on research outputs (published papers and citations) have been used by some universities as a tool to address gender bias in academic gran…
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LSE Impact Blog The careers of carers - A numerical adjustment cannot level the playing field for researchers who take time off to care for children #HigherEd #ECRchat 5d
AmeliCA before Plan S – The Latin American Initiative to develop a cooperative, non-commercial, academic led, system of scholarly communication
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Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication to an open one. However, in Latin America an open access ecosystem fo…
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LSE Impact Blog AmeliCA before Plan S – The Latin American Initiative to develop a cooperative, non-commercial, academic led, system of scholarly communication #OA #Plan_S #AmeliCA 10d
Amidst criticism of the peer review process, the valuable contributions of reviewers should be defended
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As flaws in the peer review process are highlighted and calls for reform become more frequent, it may be tempting for some to denigrate and dismiss the contributions of the reviewers themselves. Ma…
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LSE Impact Blog Amidst criticism of the peer review process, the valuable contributions of reviewers should be defended #PeerReview 10d
Shorter, better, faster, free: Blogging changes the nature of academic research, not just how it is communicated
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Academic blogging gets your work and research out to a potentially massive audience at very, very low cost and relative amount of effort. Patrick Dunleavy argues blogging and tweeting from multi-au…
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LSE Impact Blog Shorter, better, faster, free: Blogging changes the nature of academic research, not just how it is communicated #AcademicSocialMedia 10d
Do monographs have a future? Publishers, funders and research evaluators must decide
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The future of the academic monograph has been questioned for over two decades. At the heart of this ‘monograph crisis’ has been a publishing industry centred on the print publication of monographs …
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LSE Impact Blog Do monographs have a future? Publishers, funders and research evaluators must decide #monographs #acwri 13d
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LSE Impact Blog Do monographs have a future? Publishers, funders and research evaluators must decide #monographs #acwri 12d
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LSE Impact Blog "Humanities, social sciences and the arts all take this form very seriously: they’re often central to the way that we think about academic contributions" #SocialScience 9d
Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors.
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A series of studies across countries and disciplines in higher education confirm that student evaluations of teaching (SET) are significantly correlated with instructor gender, with students regula…
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LSE Impact Blog Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors. #HigherEd 16d
Time to flip your presentation format
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Conference presentations often follow a simple narrative format leading to a conclusion and a summation of the findings and implications of the research. However, as anyone who has been to an acade…
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LSE Impact Blog Time to flip your presentation format #PhDchat #ECRchat 22d
Significant economic benefits? Enhancing the impact of open science for knowledge users
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A key political driver of open access and open science policies has been the potential economic benefits that they could deliver to public and private knowledge users. However, the empirical eviden…
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LSE Impact Blog Significant economic benefits? Enhancing the impact of open science for knowledge users #OpenScience #OpenAccess 24d
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LSE Impact Blog Significant economic benefits? Enhancing the impact of open science for knowledge users #OpenScience #OpenAccess 23d
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LSE Impact Blog Significant economic benefits? Enhancing the impact of open science for knowledge users #OpenScience #ResearchPolicy 21d
Assessing Impact Assessment – What can be learnt from Australia’s Engagement and Impact Assessment?
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The impact agenda is an international and evolutionary phenomenon that has undergone numerous iterations. Discussing the development and recent release of the results of the Australian Engagement a…
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LSE Impact Blog Assessing Impact Assessment - What can be learnt from Australia’s Engagement and Impact Assessment? #ResearchAssessment #Metrics 24d
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LSE Impact Blog Assessing Impact Assessment - What can be learnt from Australia’s Engagement and Impact Assessment? #ResearchImpact 4d
Visa applications: emotional tax and privileged passports
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Researcher-artist Bathsheba Okwenje contrasts the visa requirements for a Ugandan national visiting the UK with a UK national visiting Uganda. While highlighting how some passports carry certain pr…
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LSE Impact Blog Visa applications: emotional tax and privileged passports #AcademicTravel 25d
A call for funders to ban institutions that use grant capture targets
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Grant capture, or the ability of researchers to secure funding for their projects, is often used as a formal metric for academic evaluation. In this repost, Dorothy Bishop argues that this practice…
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LSE Impact Blog A call for funders to ban institutions that use grant capture targets #metrics 25d
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LSE Impact Blog "Science is in trouble when the getting of grant funding is seen as an end in itself rather than a means to the end of doing good research" #GrantCapture #ResearchMetrics 22d
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LSE Impact Blog "Science is in trouble when the getting of grant funding is seen as an end in itself rather than a means to the end of doing good research" #GrantCapture #ECRchat 24d
Book Review: Research Ethics in the Real World by Helen Kara
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In Research Ethics in the Real World, Helen Kara offers a wide-reaching exploration of research ethics, drawing on both European/Western and Indigenous ethics paradigms and perspectives. The book w…
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LSE Impact Blog #BookReview: Research Ethics in the Real World by Helen Kara #ResearchEthics 27d
Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community
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A critical issue for advocates of Open Access (OA) has been the persistent lack of institutional incentives for academics to engage with Open Access publishing. Drawing on their research into Revie…
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LSE Impact Blog Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community #ECRchat #OA 32d
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LSE Impact Blog Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community #OpenAccess 29d
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LSE Impact Blog Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community #OpenAccess 28d
Planning on writing over the holidays? Here is how to do it 
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Many academics use the summer holidays as a time to relax, unwind and finally get that writing project done. However, is setting aside large chunks of time over the holidays the best way to approac…
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LSE Impact Blog Planning on writing over the holidays? Here is how to do it #AcWri 32d
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LSE Impact Blog "one finding was clear. The authors whose main approach was to book out long, uninterrupted times to write report the lowest levels of satisfaction and the lowest levels of productivity" #AcWri 29d
Technology in our daily lives: How to implement digital humanities projects in the classroom.
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As students and staff return for the new academic year, the classroom will again occupy centre stage. Instructors may even be thinking about incorporating new digital technology and projects into t…
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LSE Impact Blog Technology in our daily lives: How to implement digital humanities projects in the classroom. #DigitalHumanities 34d
Stand Up and Be Counted: Why social science should stop using the qualitative/quantitative dichotomy
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Qualitative and quantitative research methods have long been asserted as distinctly separate, but to what end? Howard Aldrich argues the simple dichotomy fails to account for the breadth of collect…
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LSE Impact Blog Stand Up and Be Counted: Why social science should stop using the qualitative/quantitative dichotomy #Quant #Qual 36d