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Evaluate the social impact of research in Social Sciences and Humanities: From engagement, to productive interactions and dialogic learning
Journal Title: WELFARE E ERGONOMIA 
Author/s: Serena Fabrizio, Emanuela Reale, Lucio Morettini 
Year:  2019 Issue: 1 Language: Italian 
Pages:  12 Pg. 111-122 FullText PDF:  323 KB
DOI:  10.3280/WE2019-001010
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The work analyze the ways in which stakeholders are involved in social science research (SS) funded under European research projects, in order to identify elements - organizational characteristics of the project, types of stakeholders, type of involvement - that can increase the likelihood of producing an impact on policy and society; it also discuss consequences of the empirical evidences for research evaluation.
Keywords: Social impact, productive interactions, dialogic learning, evaluation.

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Serena Fabrizio, Emanuela Reale, Lucio Morettini, Evaluate the social impact of research in Social Sciences and Humanities: From engagement, to productive interactions and dialogic learning in "WELFARE E ERGONOMIA" 1/2019, pp. 111-122, DOI:10.3280/WE2019-001010

   

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