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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Gender and the ‘impact’ agenda: the costs of public engagement to female academics
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Engaging in public discussion is a crucial aspect of academia. At the same time, female academics often encounter sexist abuse as a result of such engagement. Heather Savigny draws on interview dat…
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LSE Impact Blog Gender and the ‘impact’ agenda: the costs of public engagement to female academics #Impact #HigherEd 3d
Have we really had enough of experts – What evidence is there for public attitudes towards experts?
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Following the Brexit vote and US presidential elections in 2016, it has frequently been argued that the current period is defined by a lack of trust in experts and expertise. But is there any empir…
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LSE Impact Blog Have we really had enough of experts - What evidence is there for public attitudes towards experts? & #Experts #Expertise 4d
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LSE Impact Blog Have we really had enough of experts - What evidence is there for public attitudes towards experts? & #Gove #STS 4d
Peer review is not just quality control, it is part of the social infrastructure of research
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The purpose of peer review is often portrayed as being a simple ‘objective’ test of the soundness or quality of a research paper. However, it also performs other functions primarily through linking…
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LSE Impact Blog Peer review is not just quality control, it is part of the social infrastructure of research #PeerReview 5d
Book Review: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
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In Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble draws on her research into algorithms and bias to show how online search results are far from neutral, but inste…
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LSE Impact Blog Book Review: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble 5d
Inclusive conferences? We can and must do better – here’s how.
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As social media accounts and hashtags, such as #manelwatch, demonstrate academic conferences often fail to represent the diversity that exists in academia. In this post, Alice Chautard reflects on …
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LSE Impact Blog Inclusive conferences? We can and must do better - here’s how. #Universities 5d
Third mission accomplished? Why are universities bad at engaging with local and regional government and what we can do about it.
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Universities are increasingly called upon to engage with local and regional government, namely as part of a ‘third academic mission’, but how effectively do they incentivize academics to do so? Usi…
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LSE Impact Blog Third mission accomplished? Why are universities bad at engaging with local and regional government and what we can do about it 6d
The Impact of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Impact: A guide to charting more diffuse influences across time.
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Reflecting on the complexity of influence an individual research project can have, Adam Briggle, Robert Frodeman and Britt Holbrook try to get a handle on their own research activities and some of …
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LSE Impact Blog The Impact of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Impact: A guide to charting more diffuse influences across time. #PhilosophyTwitter 7d
The human element – why randomised control trials need mixed methods approaches
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The applicability of Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) to the social sciences has been widely questioned. However, assessing the effectiveness of RCTs, in practice has proved difficult. In this post…
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LSE Impact Blog The human element - why randomised control trials need mixed methods approaches: #RCTs #ResearchMethods 7d
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LSE Impact Blog "If evaluation studies are to provide an effective guide to address the persisting problem of poverty, they need to provide information that explains their findings: what works, what doesn’t, for whom, why and whether it matters" #RCTs #Development 6d
Rules of engagement: seven lessons from communicating above and below the line
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Social media offers academics a wonderful opportunity to get their message “out there”, to connect with, educate and inform a broad, new online audience. And universities encourage them…
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LSE Impact Blog Rules of engagement: seven lessons from communicating above and below the line #AcademicChatter 9d
How will the emerging generation of scholars transform scholarly communication?
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Presenting evidence from the Harbingers Study, a three-year longitudinal study of Early Career Researchers (ECRs), David Nicholas assesses the extent to which the new wave of researchers are drivin…
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LSE Impact Blog How will the emerging generation of scholars transform scholarly communication? #DigitalNatives 11d
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LSE Impact Blog How will the emerging generation of scholars transform scholarly communication? #DigitalNatives 7d
The gold rush: Why open access will boost publisher profits
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An important justification for transitioning from a subscription based journal publishing system to an open access journal publishing system, has been that whereas printing and distributing physica…
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LSE Impact Blog "Unless funders and institutions wish to infuse publisher profits with a growing share of research funding, they should be supporting public infrastructure and, most importantly, rewarding the researchers who use it" #OA 12d
What the history of copyright in academic publishing tells us about Open Research
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It has become a fact of academic life, that when researchers publish papers in academic journals, they sign away the copyright to their research, or licence it for distribution. However, from a his…
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LSE Impact Blog What the history of copyright in academic publishing tells us about Open Research #OpenScience #OpenResearch 14d
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LSE Impact Blog What the history of copyright in academic publishing tells us about Open Research #Copyright 13d
The changing imperative to demonstrate social science impact
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In less than a decade the impact agenda has evolved from being a controversial idea to an established part of most national research systems. Over the same period the conceptualisation of research …
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LSE Impact Blog "Put in other words, measuring and demonstrating social science research is political." #SocialScience 16d
The Open Research Library: Centralisation without Openness
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Resolving the question of how to provide an infrastructure for open access books and monographs has remained a persistent problem for researchers, librarians and funders. Knowledge Unlatched’s rece…
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LSE Impact Blog "Without offering much additional value beyond centralising already existing efforts, one might ask what is the motivation behind the Open Research Library?" #OA #OpenBooks #LISresearch 17d
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LSE Impact Blog The Open Research Library: Centralisation without Openness #SSP2019 17d
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LSE Impact Blog "The library community therefore has to make the decision about what they value more: the community ... or a one-stop-hub for which openness is only the means to a market" #OA 16d
Self-plagiarism: When is re-purposing text ethically justifiable?
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Self-plagiarism, or publishing substantially similar work twice, is frowned upon in academia as a way of gaining an unfair advantage in a competitive ‘publish or perish’ environment. Ho…
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LSE Impact Blog Self-plagiarism: When is re-purposing text ethically justifiable? #AcWri #ResearchEthics #Plagiarism 18d
Four reasons to graphically illustrate your research
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Academic writing is often criticised for being overly complicated and impenetrable to anyone outside of a small circle of experts. In this post Gemma Sou reflects on how communicating her research …
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LSE Impact Blog Four reasons to graphically illustrate your research #AcWri #PhDchat #ECRchat 23d
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LSE Impact Blog Four reasons to graphically illustrate your research #AcWro 24d
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LSE Impact Blog Four reasons to graphically illustrate your research #GraphicResearch 21d
Does evidence still matter? 10 strands of continuity and change in evidence based policy and practice
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The concept of evidence based public policy has been well established for over 20 years and unsurprisingly has sustained numerous critiques and criticisms over this period. In this post Annette Boa…
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LSE Impact Blog Does evidence still matter? 10 strands of continuity and change in evidence based policy and practice and Huw Davies & Sandra Nutley #evidencebasedpolicy #WhatWorks 25d
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LSE Impact Blog Does evidence still matter? 10 strands of continuity and change in evidence based policy and practice #WhatWorks #EvidenceMatters 21d
Open access book publishing should be community-focused and aim to let diversity thrive, not be driven by a free market paradigm
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The whole reasoning around open access for books is now aligned to a commercial agenda, where authors invest in openness with the prospect of greater downloads, citations, and impact in return. Mar…
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LSE Impact Blog Open access book publishing should be community-focused and aim to let diversity thrive, not be driven by a free market paradigm #OA 27d
Knowledge exchange or research impact – what is the difference between REF and KEF?
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The UK research system has historically been innovative in its approach to measuring and assessing the impacts of academic research. However, the recent development of the Knowledge Exchange Framew…
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LSE Impact Blog Knowledge exchange or research impact - what is the difference between REF and KEF? #KEF #REF2021 28d
The case against the journal article: The age of publisher authority is going, going, gone — and we’ll be just fine.
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Heidi Laine evaluates the often unsubstantiated claim that the journal article is central to the research communication process. Is a formal article really such a law of nature? She argues that the…
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LSE Impact Blog The case against the journal article: the age of publisher authority is going, going, gone — and we’ll be just fine 707d
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LSE Impact Blog The case against the journal article: The age of publisher authority is going, going, gone — and we’ll be just fine. 28d