What counts as data in qualitative research?
Qualitative data is more than transcripts. Explore how silence, setting and fieldnotes become evidence, and what AI may miss when research is reduced to text.
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Do women academics need to work 2.4 times harder to succeed?
Ulf Sandström revisits the famous 2.4 times gender bias claim in academic peer review, showing how field differences change the result and lessons for policy.
The Case for Distributed Peer Review in Research
Distributed Peer Review engages applicants as reviewers, speeding funding decisions, improving fairness, and offering rich feedback, as shown in new research.
Nature publishing only positive reviews shows half the story
Nature’s move to publish peer review reports for accepted papers is only partial openness, argues Bodo Stern, calling for true transparency.
Why archiving research communication outputs is key to long term impact
Andy Tattersall, Liz Such, Joe Langley, and Fiona Marshall advocate archiving research communications to sustain impact beyond traditional academic outputs.
What is a “social impact scholar”?
Explore the role of social impact scholars who prioritise societal good in research. Learn how they transform academia for change. From the LSE Impact Blog
AI can carry out qualitative research at unprecedented scale
Dr Friedrich Geiecke and Professor Xavier Jaravel, present a new open source platform to support AI driven qualitative interviews at speed and scale.
The best peer review reports are at least 947 words
Discover why longer peer review reports lead to higher citation counts in scientific papers. Post by Abdelghani Maddi shared from the LSE Impact Blog.
How to write a “good” REF Environment Statement
As Research England considers increasing the weighting of environment statements, there is a focus on what exactly constitutes a high-quality statement.
Journalists need to properly cite research for trustworthy news
Andy Tattersall shows how research is often poorly represented in the media and makes a case for better community standards – shared from the LSE Impact Blog
Social media ennui – the end of academic social media?
Is social media in a period of change? David Beer considers whether trends towards repetition and uniformity are prefiguring a new standard.
Does the REF add any value to UK research?
Shared from the LSE Impact blog Banal-Estanol et al. use a novel method to evaluate UK research performance against that of a US-based counterfactual.