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Eliel Cohen

@elielcohen.bsky.social
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Researcher at The Policy Institute at King's College London. Sociology. Higher education and research policy.

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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨 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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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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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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
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Is imagined immigration is shaping UK politics? @bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
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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.
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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🔊 "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
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Wilfred Mijnhardt @wmijnhardt.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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: 1/9
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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...
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Eliel Cohen @elielcohen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Inspiring stories of scientists’ policy secondments @royalsociety.org
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Eliel Cohen @elielcohen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Dame Angela McLean @royalsociety.org discussing her CSA role and calling for greater engagement with and from early career scientists
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Glen Berman @glenberman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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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A STUDY OF INDUSTRY INFLUENCE IN THE FIELD OF AI RESEARCH | AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
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Stian Westlake @stianwestlake.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Some thoughts on how we might increase institutional diversity in social science funding. open.substack.com/pub/magicsmo...
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Increasing institutional diversity in the social sciences
“University social scientists won.
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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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Gemma Derrick @gemmaderrick.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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...
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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.
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Paul Ashwin @paulashwin.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
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...
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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 ...
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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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_...
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Are universities worth it? The returns from higher education for graduates and the economy
YouTube video by The Policy Institute at King's College London
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Eliel Cohen @elielcohen.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Recently published with @glenberman.bsky.social and Kate Williams journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Eliel Cohen @elielcohen.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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
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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 …
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