The shift to ‘open’ working across the social sciences as a discipline group entails a welcome but demanding cultural change. Yet, Patrick Dunleavy argues that there have already been three false starts: focusing only on isolated bits of the open agenda in ways that don’t connect and so are not meaningful; loading researchers with off-putting, external bureaucratic requirements; and risking reopening ‘sectarian’ divides between quantitative and qualitative social scientists
It has become increasingly clear that prevailing academic incentive structures have a potentially da...
Drawing on their experience in producing a new open access textbook/handbook of UK politics, Patrick...
The civil service represents a significant community of analysts and researchers, but their work can...
The abstract nature of knowledge derived from the social sciences has often led to it being written ...
The open science movement has been gathering force in STEM disciplines for many years, and some of i...
A research programme aims to bridge the gap between 'R' and 'D' to build mission-driven, science-ric...
AI is forecast to become increasingly central to many aspects of life and work. The same trends can ...
As Twitter moves to become a private company owned by the billionaire Elon Musk, Mark Carrigan, refl...
What happens when research goes wrong, or at least, is perceived to go wrong? How do researchers man...
Failure is an inevitable part of any academic career. This may feel especially true for those resear...
In The Crowdsourced Panopticon: Conformity and Control on Social Media, Jeremy Weissman explores the...
It is relatively rare for social scientists as individuals to break through into the mainstream medi...
Peer support, finding a place within academia, staying up to date with the latest research, communic...
Responding to a call for renewed thinking about how we understand and measure social science impact ...
Open Access initiatives promise to extend access to scholarly conversations. However, the dominant m...
It has become increasingly clear that prevailing academic incentive structures have a potentially da...
Drawing on their experience in producing a new open access textbook/handbook of UK politics, Patrick...
The civil service represents a significant community of analysts and researchers, but their work can...
The abstract nature of knowledge derived from the social sciences has often led to it being written ...
The open science movement has been gathering force in STEM disciplines for many years, and some of i...
A research programme aims to bridge the gap between 'R' and 'D' to build mission-driven, science-ric...
AI is forecast to become increasingly central to many aspects of life and work. The same trends can ...
As Twitter moves to become a private company owned by the billionaire Elon Musk, Mark Carrigan, refl...
What happens when research goes wrong, or at least, is perceived to go wrong? How do researchers man...
Failure is an inevitable part of any academic career. This may feel especially true for those resear...
In The Crowdsourced Panopticon: Conformity and Control on Social Media, Jeremy Weissman explores the...
It is relatively rare for social scientists as individuals to break through into the mainstream medi...
Peer support, finding a place within academia, staying up to date with the latest research, communic...
Responding to a call for renewed thinking about how we understand and measure social science impact ...
Open Access initiatives promise to extend access to scholarly conversations. However, the dominant m...
It has become increasingly clear that prevailing academic incentive structures have a potentially da...
Drawing on their experience in producing a new open access textbook/handbook of UK politics, Patrick...
The civil service represents a significant community of analysts and researchers, but their work can...