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Scoping Impact – An International Study of Contemporary Definitions and Conceptualisations of Impact by Funders of Social Science Research

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / Alasdair Thomson

By Nathan Coombs, Hilary MacDonogh, and Eugénia Rodrigues. Incentivising and supporting the ‘impact’ of social science research has become an objective for funding bodies in the UK and worldwide over recent decades. Defining the impacts of social science research on the economy, policy and society is key to demonstrating that public expenditure on such research […]

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Former SKAPE co-director Marc Geddes awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his work exploring the relationship between parliament and knowledge

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / Iñaki Goñi

SKAPE’s former co-director, Dr Marc Geddes has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for research exploring the relationship between parliament and knowledge.

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Image of a strike by community health workers in Kenya. The workers are wearing their scrubs and uniforms, holding up signs with messages about the strike action.

Community health: radical revolution or conservative coloniality?

Leave a Comment / Blog post, Uncategorized / Sofie Illemann Jaeger

In this blog piece, SKAPE ECR member Kathy Dodworth examines community health practices through a postcolonial lens, discussing her recent fieldwork with community health volunteers in Kenya.

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Cultures of Evidence series 3: Research with social impact and the Spanish case

Leave a Comment / Blog post, Uncategorized / Iñaki Goñi

In this final delivery of our Cultures of Evidence series, Emilia Aiello and María Vieites discuss the Spanish transition towards social impact models and argue for the centrality of dialogue at the base of evidence-based policies

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Cultures of Evidence series 2:The Normative Turn in Evidence and Policy From ‘Evidence Use’ to the ‘Good Governance of Evidence’

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / Iñaki Goñi

In this second delivery of our Cultures of Evidence series, Justin Parkhurst presents and discusses a framework for addressing the normative challenges of governing evidence within policy processes

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COVID-19 shows how governments need to work more closely with experts in the social aspects of biomedicine

Uncategorized / Marc Geddes

Martyn Pickersgill highlights the importance of the social sciences in responding to COVID-19, which have all too often been marginalised in favour expertise from the natural sciences.

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Analyse and rule? New book explains the rise of risk analysis and how it transforms policymaking and public administrations in Europe

Uncategorized / Marc Geddes

In this blog, Regine Paul outlines the main ideas from her new book on risk, including the main arguments and contributions.

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Households, bubbles and hugging grandparents: caring and lockdown rules during COVID-19

Uncategorized / Marc Geddes

Jackie Gulland explores the impact of lockdown bubbles in this short blog, originally posted on Covid-19 Perspectives at the University of Edinburgh blog.

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When should funders talk about new technologies?

Uncategorized / Marc Geddes

Rob Smith and Sarah Hartley summarise a recently-published article in Public Understanding of Science, where they collaborated with the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to explore how and when research councils should begin processes of public engagement.

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Formal and informal shelter provision on the ‘Balkan Route’

Uncategorized / Marc Geddes

The IR_Aesthetics collective summarise the findings of their recent research on how EU migration policies affect refugees and asylum seekers along the so-called ‘Balkan Route’, raising the question: are policies based on evidence?

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