In recent years, there have been calls to make scholarly articles more accessible to non-specialist audiences. Research has always helped shape the public realm, empowering people across all sectors of society to make informed decisions. Academic or topic-specific jargon can hinder the general understanding and impact of such publications, which is where Plain Language Summaries (PLS) or Plain Language Summaries of Publications (PLS-P) can be very helpful.
Los Angeles, Classroom instruction, lectures, and textbook study are all important, but long-term, engaged learning truly happens when the theoretical is combined with hands-on application. That’s why service-learning and civic engagement can be such an important part of a well-rounded education. What’s the best way to incorporate community-engaged learning into the curriculum?
Adam Matthew announces exclusive agreement with the Folger Shakespeare Library as part of a new series of theatre-related projects
Adam Matthew is delighted to announce the digitisation of the world’s largest collection of prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.
(Marlborough, UK) Adam Matthew are pleased to announce a new essay competition in partnership with the leading association on American Studies in Ireland, the Irish Association of American Studies (IAAS). The essay competition is aimed at postgraduate students, early career researchers and independent researchers in the field of American Studies.
London, UK. SAGE Publishing today announces that it is to begin publishing the Downside Review, a quarterly journal published by the monks of Downside since 1880, in partnership with Downside Abbey.
Competition encourages postgraduate students and early career researchers to apply
London, UK. SAGE Publishing today announces that it is to begin publishing the Alternative Law Journal (AltLJ), Australia’s leading law reform journal in partnership with the Legal Service Bulletin Co-operative Ltd in Melbourne, Australia.
London, UK. Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers updates to areas such as computer assisted qualitative data analysis, as well as new chapters on advances in social media, big data, and data visualization.
Archives from the world-renowned Shakespeare’s Globe are now available online, as part of a collaboration with award-winning primary source publisher, Adam Matthew Digital.
As part of our commitment to addressing the needs of all research communities to improve diversity, equity and inclusion, Sage has introduced a policy to enable name and pronoun changes for our authors. Going forward, all requests to make a name or pronoun change will be honored. This includes, but is not limited to, name changes because of marriage, divorce, gender affirmation, and religious conversion. Sage will not publish a correction notice, nor require any form of proof or supporting documentation.
This month's issue of the Big Data and Social Research Newsletter shares insights from three events: the Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) pre-conference, the RSS 2018 conference, and the SAGE Ocean event 'Designing Collective Intelligence 2018', which was co-hosted with Nesta.