Simon Bastow is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and LSE Public Policy Group. His research interests are in governance and executive politics, UK and comparative public policy, and impacts of social science.

1. The Social Sciences in Modern Research
The scale and diversity of the social sciences
The social sciences and human-dominated systems
Perceptions of 'impact' from the social sciences
PART I: HOW ACADEMICS ACHIEVE EXTERNAL IMPACTS
2. Social Scientists¿ Pathways to Impacts
The academic impacts of social science researchers
The external impacts of researchers
Profiling different types of academic and their impacts
3. Modelling the Determinants of Social Science Impacts
Multi-variate modelling of impacts
The factors shaping academic impacts
The factors shaping external impacts
4. Comparing Individuals¿ Impact
Using case studies of high impact academics
Explaining high impacts at the individual level
Pulling together the analysis
PART II: THE DEMAND FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
5. Business and the Corporate Sector
The range of university links with business
The scale of social sciences involvement with business
Barriers to greater use of social science research in firms
6. Government and Public Policy Making
Social science and the policy arena
The scale of social science links to policy
Social scientists' influence on policy
7. Civil Society Organizations and the Third Sector
Civil society organizations and 'advocacy coalitions'
The scale of social science research links to civil society
Growing the impacts of social science in the third sector
8. The Media and Public Engagement
Academic expertise and 'the public'
Social scientists and conventional news media
Social science and social media
Innovating with social science and the media
PART III: PATTERNS OF KNOWLEDGE AND IMPACTS
9. The Dynamic Knowledge Inventory and Research Mediation
The dynamic knowledge inventory
The mediation of social science research
10. Social Science for a digital era
Joining up for a 'broad-front' social science
Re-framing human-centred disciplines and integrating STEM and social sciences
Towards a more global social science