The Public Professor: How to Use Your Research to Change the World
M. V. Lee Badgett
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Description for The Public Professor: How to Use Your Research to Change the World
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their ideas, research and knowledge to change the world. The book gives practical strategies for scholars to become more engaged with the public on a variety of fronts: online, in print, at council hearings, even with national legislation.
Lee Badgett, a veteran policy analyst and public intellectual with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479815029
SKU
V9781479815029
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99-1
About M. V. Lee Badgett
M. V. Lee Badgett is Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Public Policy & Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and also serves as research director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law. She is the author of Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of ... Read more
Reviews for The Public Professor: How to Use Your Research to Change the World
In addressing three main themes of seeing the bigger picture, networking effectively and communicating outside the academy, Badgett draws widely on the experiences of other engaged academics, providing a clear philosophical basis for her arguments and offering a wealth of worthwhile and practical suggestions.
Times Higher Education
This relatively short book shows one way in which academics can ... Read more
Times Higher Education
This relatively short book shows one way in which academics can ... Read more