LSE Impact Blog

LSE Impact Blog

London School of Economics and Political Science

The LSE Impact Blog is a hub for researchers, administrative staff, librarians, students, think tanks, government, and anyone else interested in maximising the impact of academic work in the social sciences and other disciplines. We hope to encourage debate, share best practice and keep the impact community up to date with news, events and the latest research.


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LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 30 July 2024 English

Academics and universities put on a wide range of public facing events, but how much time is put into differentiating these events from those aimed squarely at scholarly audiences? Wade …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 23 July 2024 English

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, finding participants for qualitative studies has increasingly become an online process mediated by social media or platforms such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Yet, how confident can …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 18 July 2024 English

Lessons from Regional Responses to Security, Health and Environmental Challenges in Latin America explores these three areas in terms of governance challenges post-COVID-19. Editor Ivo Ganchev brings together diverse regional …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 15 July 2024 English

The search for the origin of the phrase ‘publish or perish’ has been intriguing since it was first raised by Eugene Garfield in 1996. Drawing on recent discoveries in relation …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 11 July 2024 English

In Brave New Words, Salman Khan argues that educators should harness AI’s potential to transform learning through personalised tutoring services like his own platform, Khanmigo. Although Khan’s book lacks an …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 3 July 2024 English

The retraction of academic papers often functions as an indictment against the reputation of a researcher. Tim Kersjes argues that for retractions to function as an effective corrective to the …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 2 July 2024 English

The recording and indexing of research plays a vital role in how it can be found and used, but what happens when the output from a research project is not …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 1 July 2024 English

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating and accessing research-based knowledge. However, as Helen Kara and Petra Boynton argue, seen from the outside these claims are hollow. Perhaps you are …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 27 June 2024 English

The format for this year’s Election Nights on TV in the UK was set in the 1970s. Since then it has got glitzier with computer graphics, but all the original …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 26 June 2024 English

In Fluke, Brian Klaas explores the phenomenon of chance, examining how seemingly random happenings and actions can profoundly shape our lives. Klaas skilfully interweaves different perspectives – from physics, neuroscience …