Eliel Cohen
@elielcohen.bsky.social
Researcher at The Policy Institute at King's College London. Sociology. Higher education and research policy.
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🚨 Tonight
Join us to hear Julia Gillard and expert speakers share insights on how social science can still have global impact in an era of political polarisation and widespread misinformation, public scepticism, political interference, and funding reductions
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Join us to hear Julia Gillard and expert speakers share insights on how social science can still have global impact in an era of political polarisation and widespread misinformation, public scepticism, political interference, and funding reductions
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NEXT WEEK: Truth and Trust: The Vital Role of Social Science in a Divided World
Join us and an expert panel, including Julia Gillard, to discuss how social science can still have global impact in an era of political polarisation
🎟️ Register for the livestream ➡️ acss.civiplus.net/civicrm/even...
Join us and an expert panel, including Julia Gillard, to discuss how social science can still have global impact in an era of political polarisation
🎟️ Register for the livestream ➡️ acss.civiplus.net/civicrm/even...
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🚨 Tonight
Join us to hear Julia Gillard and expert speakers share insights on how social science can still have global impact in an era of political polarisation and widespread misinformation, public scepticism, political interference, and funding reductions
⬇️
Join us to hear Julia Gillard and expert speakers share insights on how social science can still have global impact in an era of political polarisation and widespread misinformation, public scepticism, political interference, and funding reductions
⬇️
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NEW: UK universities' 25-year-old system for costing activities like teaching and research is no longer providing the insights needed to help navigate the sector's challenges.
Our report argues the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) system could be enhanced to support better decision-making
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Our report argues the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) system could be enhanced to support better decision-making
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University costing data must be better used to tackle financial crisis, report says | King's College London
The TRAC methodology is not providing the detailed insights that could help support better decision-making
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
NEW: UK universities' 25-year-old system for costing activities like teaching and research is no longer providing the insights needed to help navigate the sector's challenges.
Our report argues the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) system could be enhanced to support better decision-making
🧵⬇️
Our report argues the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) system could be enhanced to support better decision-making
🧵⬇️
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Is imagined immigration is shaping UK politics?
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social for
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social for
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
Imagined immigration is shaping our politics | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Immigration has become the number one political priority for the public. But there is one problem: this immigration is imagined, it doesn't really exist.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Is imagined immigration is shaping UK politics?
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social for
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social for
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
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🔊 "What we've seen is an increase in more extreme rhetoric in social media, media and politics over the last few years...and that more extreme rhetoric does shift views. It gives you a changing view of the norm"
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the Today programme discussing our new culture wars study
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the Today programme discussing our new culture wars study
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🔊 "What we've seen is an increase in more extreme rhetoric in social media, media and politics over the last few years...and that more extreme rhetoric does shift views. It gives you a changing view of the norm"
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the Today programme discussing our new culture wars study
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the Today programme discussing our new culture wars study
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The cultural impact of the impact agenda in Australia, UK and USA. impact policies create or increase pre-existing tensions in and between disciplines.
doi.org/10.1093/rese...
Some key insights:
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doi.org/10.1093/rese...
Some key insights:
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August 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The cultural impact of the impact agenda in Australia, UK and USA. impact policies create or increase pre-existing tensions in and between disciplines.
doi.org/10.1093/rese...
Some key insights:
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doi.org/10.1093/rese...
Some key insights:
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Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Inspiring stories of scientists’ policy secondments @royalsociety.org
February 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Inspiring stories of scientists’ policy secondments @royalsociety.org
Dame Angela McLean @royalsociety.org discussing her CSA role and calling for greater engagement with and from early career scientists
February 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Dame Angela McLean @royalsociety.org discussing her CSA role and calling for greater engagement with and from early career scientists
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The role that national research funders and university administrations play in incentivising academics to seek corporate investment is sometimes missed in discussions of corporate capture of AI. My #AoIR2024 paper explored this - and the extended abstract is now up at: doi.org/10.5210/spir....
A STUDY OF INDUSTRY INFLUENCE IN THE FIELD OF AI RESEARCH
| AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
doi.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The role that national research funders and university administrations play in incentivising academics to seek corporate investment is sometimes missed in discussions of corporate capture of AI. My #AoIR2024 paper explored this - and the extended abstract is now up at: doi.org/10.5210/spir....
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Some thoughts on how we might increase institutional diversity in social science funding.
open.substack.com/pub/magicsmo...
open.substack.com/pub/magicsmo...
Increasing institutional diversity in the social sciences
“University social scientists won.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Some thoughts on how we might increase institutional diversity in social science funding.
open.substack.com/pub/magicsmo...
open.substack.com/pub/magicsmo...
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IT'S OUT!!! The new @ukandeu.bsky.social report in collaboration with @kclcgs.bsky.social Many thanks to Maeve Ryan and particularly to Oliver Yule--Smith and @jannikewachowiak.bsky.social for doing all the work. 1/4
February 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
IT'S OUT!!! The new @ukandeu.bsky.social report in collaboration with @kclcgs.bsky.social Many thanks to Maeve Ryan and particularly to Oliver Yule--Smith and @jannikewachowiak.bsky.social for doing all the work. 1/4
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Continuing the @hiddenref.bsky.social movement with my amazing partners James Baker and @simonhettrick.bsky.social !
Buzz us to find out how to join us!
bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
Buzz us to find out how to join us!
bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
Campaign to recognise unsung heroes in UK’s academic research given millions in funding
A campaign that recognises the unsung work in the UK’s academic research has been awarded £3.5 million.
bristol.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Continuing the @hiddenref.bsky.social movement with my amazing partners James Baker and @simonhettrick.bsky.social !
Buzz us to find out how to join us!
bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
Buzz us to find out how to join us!
bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
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A new article on how knowledge is central to students developing transformational accounts of their undergraduate education. It is not instrumentality that's the problem in education but the absence of a focus on knowledge.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Transformational accounts of students’ undergraduate education are evoked by their engagement with knowledge - Higher Education
There are strong concerns about students perceiving their undergraduate education in instrumental, rather than transformational, ways. However, it is not clear whether seeing education instrumentally ...
link.springer.com
October 18, 2024 at 9:52 AM
A new article on how knowledge is central to students developing transformational accounts of their undergraduate education. It is not instrumentality that's the problem in education but the absence of a focus on knowledge.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Miss our event on Monday?
Catch up with the discussion between David Willetts and universities minister Jacqui Smith on the returns from higher education for graduates and the economy
➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_H_...
Catch up with the discussion between David Willetts and universities minister Jacqui Smith on the returns from higher education for graduates and the economy
➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_H_...
January 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Miss our event on Monday?
Catch up with the discussion between David Willetts and universities minister Jacqui Smith on the returns from higher education for graduates and the economy
➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_H_...
Catch up with the discussion between David Willetts and universities minister Jacqui Smith on the returns from higher education for graduates and the economy
➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_H_...
Recently published with @glenberman.bsky.social and Kate Williams journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Lucky to be back from a month-long break, with a paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social! How do academics participate in the construction of ‘AI’ as a research field? We interviewed 90 university-based AI researchers in the UK, US, and Aus. Paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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journals.sagepub.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Recently published with @glenberman.bsky.social and Kate Williams journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New publication in Social Science & Medicine on how the power asymmetries in the global health industry impacts experiences of global health education
The ‘us and them divide’: A qualitative study of student experiences of global health education through the lens of ‘inclusivity’
The Global Health (GH) field is characterised by stark inequalities, including a strong over-representation of GH leaders from/trained in high-income …
www.sciencedirect.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New publication in Social Science & Medicine on how the power asymmetries in the global health industry impacts experiences of global health education