🚨 Tonight
Join us to hear Julia Gillard and expert speakers share insights on how social science can still have global impact in an era of political polarisation and widespread misinformation, public scepticism, political interference, and funding reductions
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NEW: UK universities' 25-year-old system for costing activities like teaching and research is no longer providing the insights needed to help navigate the sector's challenges.
Our report argues the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) system could be enhanced to support better decision-making
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Is imagined immigration is shaping UK politics?
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social for
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
🔊 "What we've seen is an increase in more extreme rhetoric in social media, media and politics over the last few years...and that more extreme rhetoric does shift views. It gives you a changing view of the norm"
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the Today programme discussing our new culture wars study
The cultural impact of the impact agenda in Australia, UK and USA. impact policies create or increase pre-existing tensions in and between disciplines.
doi.org/10.1093/rese...
Some key insights:
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I have only just come across this. So grateful for your excellent summary of our research!
Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Inspiring stories of scientists’ policy secondments @royalsociety.org
Dame Angela McLean @royalsociety.org discussing her CSA role and calling for greater engagement with and from early career scientists
The role that national research funders and university administrations play in incentivising academics to seek corporate investment is sometimes missed in discussions of corporate capture of AI. My #AoIR2024 paper explored this - and the extended abstract is now up at: doi.org/10.5210/spir....
Some thoughts on how we might increase institutional diversity in social science funding.
open.substack.com/pub/magicsmo...
IT'S OUT!!! The new @ukandeu.bsky.social report in collaboration with @kclcgs.bsky.social Many thanks to Maeve Ryan and particularly to Oliver Yule--Smith and @jannikewachowiak.bsky.social for doing all the work. 1/4
Continuing the @hiddenref.bsky.social movement with my amazing partners James Baker and @simonhettrick.bsky.social !
Buzz us to find out how to join us!
bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
A new article on how knowledge is central to students developing transformational accounts of their undergraduate education. It is not instrumentality that's the problem in education but the absence of a focus on knowledge.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Miss our event on Monday?
Catch up with the discussion between David Willetts and universities minister Jacqui Smith on the returns from higher education for graduates and the economy
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Recently published with @glenberman.bsky.social and Kate Williams journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New publication in Social Science & Medicine on how the power asymmetries in the global health industry impacts experiences of global health education
