Jane Tinkler Author

Patrick Dunleavy is Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. In addition to his disciplinary work, he is well known for his successful guide, Authoring a PhD (Red Globe Press, 2003) and for the LSE Writing for Research blog. His Twitter feed @Write4Research has 68,000 followers from many countries and disciplines. His widely cited 2014 research study of The Impact of the Social Sciences (co-authored with Simon Bastow and Jane Tinkler) provided part of the foundation for this book. Jane Tinkler is Senior Prize Manager at the Nine Dots Prize for innovation in the social sciences. She is also studying for a PhD in public policy at Stirling University. She previously managed LSE Public Policy Group for many years and co-authored The Impact of the Social Sciences (2014). She has also been a researcher in the UK’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, and before London School of Economics worked at UCL and Birkbeck College, London.