British Academy

British Academy’s Net Zero Policy Programme Calls for Research Proposals
Industry
December 21, 2022

British Academy’s Net Zero Policy Programme Calls for Research Proposals

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British Academy Series looks at W.E.B. Du Bois
Announcements
November 16, 2021

British Academy Series looks at W.E.B. Du Bois

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British Academy Report Finds HSS Graduates Resilient in Economic Downturns
Career
May 8, 2020

British Academy Report Finds HSS Graduates Resilient in Economic Downturns

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Hetan Shah on Social Science and the Pandemic
Public Policy
April 27, 2020

Hetan Shah on Social Science and the Pandemic

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British Academy Mobilizing Community to Address COVID Impacts

British Academy Mobilizing Community to Address COVID Impacts

And so the British Academy has begun mobilizing its community of social scientists and humanities scholars to support the United Kingdom’s government and its populace as they fight the COVID pandemic today and deal with its impacts tomorrow.

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RSS’s Hetan Shah Tapped to Head British Academy

RSS’s Hetan Shah Tapped to Head British Academy

Professor Hetan Shah, who has headed the Royal Statistical Society for the last eight years, has been named to lead the British […]

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Wolfson Foundation Funds £10 Million HSS Initiative With British Academy

Wolfson Foundation Funds £10 Million HSS Initiative With British Academy

Making its largest-ever grant in the social sciences and humanities, the Wolfson Foundation awarded the British Academy £10 million to promote high quality research. Under the initiative, the British Academy will create a fellowship program to support early career researchers, develop an international community of scholars and create an intellectual hub at the academy’s London home on Carlton House Terrace.

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British Academy Elects Largest Number of Fellows in Its History

British Academy Elects Largest Number of Fellows in Its History

A record 76 academics — four of them alumni of the Social Science Bites podcast series here at Social Science Space — have been elected as fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their achievements in the humanities and social sciences.

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British Academy Elects a Full Slate of New Fellows

British Academy Elects a Full Slate of New Fellows

The British Academy last week elected a full slate of distinguished UK academics from 19 universities as fellows for 2014. The 42 […]

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OA in Britain: We Have a Rule, Now Let’s Get Some Data

OA in Britain: We Have a Rule, Now Let’s Get Some Data

The landscape for open access in Britain’s social science and humanities fields is very different and very similar to the better studied STEM fields, a new report from the British Academy finds.

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Please Take A More Open View Of Openness

Please Take A More Open View Of Openness

Ben Johnson posits that frequently asked questions concerning open access implementation for particular disciplines arise from an incomplete conception of the nature of openness that neglects one vital component: connection.

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Measuring Impact Via Influence, Not Bank Balance

Measuring Impact Via Influence, Not Bank Balance

A new project from the British Academy sets down the calculator in the latest attempt to tot up the value of the social sciences and humanities.

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