00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862035808 Buklod 20160523115603.0 g||| | || || ta 160523s2014 cauad rb |||1 u|eng d 9781446275108 (pbk) (iLib)UPBAG-00020739833 BC-66384 New Century Php3,595.50 Prof. Analyn Salvador-Amores OCLC BAG rda eng H 62 B348 2014 Bastow, Simon 1972- author. The impact of the social sciences how academics and their research make a difference Simon Bastow, Patrick Dunleavy, Jane Tinkler ; with involvement from Raphaelle Biseaux [and eight others]. How academics and their research make a difference. Los Angeles Sage 2014. xvii, 320 pages illustrations (chiefly color), charts 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-308) and index. 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. Part 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. Part 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. Part 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. Based on a three year research project studying the impact of academics on business, government and civil society sectors, this groundbreaking book undertakes the most thorough analysis yet of how academic research in the social sciences achieves public policy impacts, contributes to economic prosperity, and informs public understanding of policy issues--Source other than Library of Congress. Social sciences Research. Dunleavy, Patrick author. Tinkler, Jane author. Bisiaux, Raphaelle. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN H 62 B348 2014 Book