Co-authored by Maria Gould and Daniella Lowenberg and cross-posted from the ROR blog How many datasets have been published in Dryad from researchers at the University…
development, development practice, development studies, Do no harm, Featured, Grimpact, Higher Education, Impact, knowledge exchange, Knowledge Transfer, Negative Impact, research evaluation, Research policy
Do no harm? – What development practice can teach us about negative impact
As previous posts on the Impact Blog have highlighted, one aspect of the impact agenda that has until recently been relatively neglected has been that of negative impact, or ‘grimpact’. In this post Valeria Izzi and Becky Murray draw on examples from development practice and research to advance a more complex understanding of grimpact and argue that as development research […]
big data, Computational Social Science, Data science, digital methods, digital scholarship, Featured, LinkedIn, Social Media
Using LinkedIn for Social Research
Different social media platforms allow different levels of access to the data they hold for academic research. In this cross-post Daniela Duca explores some of the ways in which LinkedIn has been used by social scientists and provides a list resources for researchers looking to work with LinkedIn data. Back in 2012, when LinkedIn was close to the 200 million users […]
Acquiring Open Access Children’s Books
This is a guest post by Kristy Darby, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section in Library Services. The Library of Congress’ Digital Collecting Plan, finalized in 2017, proposes to “Develop and implement an acquisitions program for openly available content.” To support this goal, the Library’s Digital Content Management section has been […]
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SDR Deposit of the Week: Rocks and sustainable energy
July 2, 2019
by Amy E. Hodge
Digital preservation
Science
Stanford Digital Repository
When you think about rocks, you m…
Depoliticisation, Featured, health care, Impact, knowledge exchange, Knowledge Transfer, Organisation, Organisation studies, research communication, Research policy, social science
Why social science can help us to better understand organisational change in healthcare
Lorelei Jones, Alec Fraser, and Ellen Stewart write that while the literature of large‐scale healthcare reform is dominated by competing forms of knowledge, social science in particular can offer new insights. Major changes to the way clinical services are organised keep happening, despite a lack of evidence that it improves anything. Health services research often excludes important dimensions, such as politics and emotions, in favour […]