Author: LSE Impact

Paths from a PhD to the Private Sector
News
June 7, 2021

Paths from a PhD to the Private Sector

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Sonia Livingstone Discusses Digital Publishing in the Face of a Global Pandemic
Communication
November 20, 2020

Sonia Livingstone Discusses Digital Publishing in the Face of a Global Pandemic

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LSE 2018 Round-Up on Connecting Research With Policy
Public Policy
December 29, 2018

LSE 2018 Round-Up on Connecting Research With Policy

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Mental Health Measurement and the Workplace
Research
October 13, 2013

Mental Health Measurement and the Workplace

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We need more mainstream social science, not less.

We need more mainstream social science, not less.

A recent New York Times op-ed has provoked a great deal of debate over the relevance and reinvigoration of the social sciences. Alex Golub welcomes some of the criticism levied at the social sciences as a whole but finds the lack of evidence supporting many of the sweeping claims on why social science is stagnating to be unreconcilable given massive funding differentials and the history of social and natural sciences. But social scientists must continue to work to ensure mainstream social science is communicated in more accessible ways.

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Lessons from civil society

Lessons from civil society

As academics think about impact, they can draw on some of the lessons and strategic approaches used by civil society and campaigning groups.

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Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research

Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research

“The social scientists we could do business with were those who grounded their ideas through field studies, cultural probes and social data”.

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Numerical indigestion: how much data is really good for us?

Numerical indigestion: how much data is really good for us?

We are swimming in ‘big data’ and despite their performances as advocates of data freedom, policymakers don’t seem to bear any responsibility for educating the public on how to read it.

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