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The oldest known impact structure on Earth has been confirmed in outback Australia.
The Conversation Africa marks its eleventh anniversary this year with more than 12,000 articles celebrating varying levels of impact.
Successful applicants will be invited to the November event to present details of their project.
When donors are better informed, they can accomplish more with the money they give away. But who should pay for that information?
Facing an abusive backlash may make the cost of entry into public debate too high.
Often those most impacted by climate change are those least able to engage with climate discourse. Universities have a responsibility to engage with these communities.
Environmental, social and governance investment funds claim to help save the planet and better society, but the reality is more complex.
NASA has only mapped 40% of the potentially dangerous asteroids that could crash into Earth. New projects will boost that number, and upcoming missions will test tech that could prevent collisions.
The UN missions deployed around the world to manage conflict and protect civilians need to be assessed in a manner that accurately reflects their successes and failures.
‘The Life of Washington’ was painted in the 1930s by an artist who sought to upend a rosy narrative of US history. Now some are saying its images ‘traumatize’ viewers – and ought to be taken down.
Academics can control the way they engage with people, and communicate – and these are skills that get better with practice.
Ensuring knowledge creates impact involves disciplinary excellence, communication, co-location and funding.
But are UK universities running the risk of institutionalising public engagement?
Community organisations are trying to measure their impact but lack the funding and data availability to do it properly, new research finds.
The diversity of research impact makes it tricky to measure in numbers.
UNESCO has declared 2014 as the International Year of Crystallography. But why? Quite simply because the science of crystallography has revolutionised how we live – and yet few people know about it. Crystallography…
Academics from a dozen universities will be required to explain to industry experts the economic and social value of hundreds of research projects from the past 20 years, under guidelines for a trial designed…
The election of the Rudd Government in 2007 killed the momentum that had been building in the last few years of the Howard government for research valuation to move beyond metrics-based methods (such as…
Visiting British expert David Sweeney could have star appeal for academics frustrated by the bureaucratic inflexibility of Australia’s research auditing system and metrics-based assessments blind to the…
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