The impact of the social sciences : how academics and their research make a difference /: how academics and their research make a difference. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Simon Bastow, Patrick Dunleavy, Jane Tinkler ; with involvement by Raphaëlle, Biseaux [and eight others].
• Authors: Bastow, Simon, 1972-; Dunleavy, Patrick; Tinkler, Jane
• Contents: 1.The social sciences in modern research -- 1.1.The scale and diversity of the social sciences -- 1.2.The social sciences and human-dominated systems -- 1.3.Perceptions of `impact' from the social sciences -- Conclusions -- pt. I HOW ACADEMICS ACHIEVE EXTERNAL IMPACTS -- 2.Social scientists' pathways to impacts -- 2.1.The academic impacts of social science researchers -- 2.2.The external impacts of researchers -- 2.3.Profiling different types of academic and their impacts -- Conclusions -- 3.Modelling the determinants of social science impacts -- 3.1.Multi-variate modelling of impacts -- 3.2.The factors shaping academic impacts -- 3.3.The factors shaping external impacts -- Conclusions -- 4.Comparing individuals' impact -- 4.1.Using case studies of high impact academics -- 4.2.Explaining high impacts at the individual level -- 4.3.Pulling together the analysis -- Conclusions -- pt. II THE DEMAND FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH -- 5.Business and the corporate sector -- 5.1.The range of university links with business -- 5.2.The scale of social science involvement with business -- 5.3.Barriers to greater use of social science research in firms -- Conclusions -- 6.Government and public policy making -- 6.1.Social science and the policy arena -- 6.2.The scale of social science links to policy -- 6.3.Social scientists' influence on policy -- Conclusions -- 7.Civil society organizations and the third sector -- 7.1.Civil society organizations and `advocacy coalitions' -- 7.2.The scale of social science research links to civil society -- 7.3.Growing the impacts of social science in the third sector -- Conclusions -- 8.The media and public engagement -- 8.1.Academic expertise and `the public' -- 8.2.Social scientists and conventional news media -- 8.3.Social science and social media -- 8.4.Innovating with social science in the media -- Conclusions -- pt. III PATTERNS OF KNOWLEDGE AND IMPACTS -- 9.The dynamic knowledge inventory and research mediation -- 9.1.The dynamic knowledge inventory -- 9.2.The mediation of social science research -- Conclusions -- 10.Social science for a digital era -- 10.1.Joining up for a `broad-front' social science -- 10.2.Re-framing human-centred disciplines and integrating STEM and social sciences -- 10.3.Towards a more global social science -- Conclusions.
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Subjects: 300.7; Social sciences -- Research; Social sciences -- Research; Sociale wetenschappen; Society
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446293256; 1446293254
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