5 Strategies for writing in turbulent times
Chris Smith shares five practical strategies to help academics manage distractions and stay focused on writing during uncertain and disrupted times.
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What Makes Research Interesting? Five Dimensions That Matter
What makes academic work interesting? Manuel Goyanes explores five key traits that help papers stand out, inspire readers and influence the field.
Four principles for practising and evaluating co-production
A new working definition of co-produced research and suggest how different elements of successfully co-produced knowledge can be understood and evaluated.
The State of Open Data 2019 – Key issues for researchers
Mark Hahnel for the LSE Impact Blog presents findings from the largest continuous survey of academic attitudes to open data
Who innovates in social science research?
Researchers face risks when using unconventional methods. Koppman and Leahey explore how identity, affiliation, and strategy help navigate tradition to innovate
10 Counter-intuitive insights from an academic writing coach
10 counter-intuitive insights to help you understand and improve your own writing practice.
Reflections on academic fundraising: the art of getting there
In this post from the LSE Impact Blog, Abel Polese reflects on his own experiences of academic fundraising and argues that for researchers seeking research funding, failure is relative and that rather than trying to game the system academics should focus on quality.
Using mobile applications for social science research
This post from the LSE Impact blog discusses the use of mobile phone applications as a research method in the social sciences. Reflecting on their own use of apps to study fear of crime, and providing four key points to consider when seeking to use apps in your projects.
Planning on writing over the holidays? Here is how to do it
Many academics use the summer holidays as a time to relax, unwind and finally get that writing project done. However, is setting aside large chunks of time over the holidays the best way to approach academic writing?
How will the emerging generation of scholars transform scholarly communication?
Presenting evidence from the Harbingers Study, a three-year longitudinal study of Early Career Researchers (ECRs), David Nicholas assesses the extent to which the new wave of researchers are driving changes in scholarly practices.
Dealing with Rejection in Academia
In this repost from the LSE Impact Blog, Staci Zavattaro, reflects on rejection in academia and gives 6 tips on how to manage the inevitable rejections that are part of academic life.
Negative Impact – Is it possible to manage potentially harmful research findings?
What do you do with research that produces potentially harmful results? In this post for the LSE Impact Blog Andrew Crane, explores how research can produce negative as well as positive impacts on society.