Impact validity: A politics of possibilities
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Date
2014-12-04
Authors
Riggs, Damien Wayne
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Wiley
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© 2013 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
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Abstract
This commentary reflects upon the possibilities opened up by the concept of ‘impact
validity’. Particular attention is paid to three key issues that appear across the entire
issue, namely: 1) the role of understandings of politics in research that aims to achieve
impact validity, 2) the intersections of career and real world impact, and 3) how
researchers who aim for impact validity manage the needs of the differing audiences
of their work. Overall, the commentary suggests that the concept of impact validity
holds great potential to contribute to how we think about the ways we do research,
and the role that researchers can play in the public sphere in terms of creating the
space for news ways of knowing about the world, in addition to encouraging those in
positions of power to think about how they may usefully be influenced by academic
knowledge.
Key Words: impact validity, politics, research, policy, power
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Author version made available in accordance with the publisher's policy - under embargo for a period of 2 years from the date of publication.
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [ Riggs, D.W. (2013). Impact validity: A politics of possibilities. Journal of Social Issues, 69, 797-803. ], which has been published in final form at DOI:10.1111/josi.12042. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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Riggs, D.W. (2013). Impact validity: A politics of possibilities. Journal of Social Issues, 69, 797-803.