TY - Report PY - 2008 T1 - Maximizing the social, policy and economic impacts of research in the humanities and social sciences PB - LSE Public Policy Group DO - https://doi.org/APO-69775 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/69775 AB - The humanities and social sciences are academic disciplines dedicated to the study of society, the economy, business, governance, history and culture. Their mission is to help people and organizations in British society reflect upon themselves, so as to better understand their established behaviours and their responses to what is new. Accounting for two fifths of students in the UK’s university sector, and a similar proportion of academic staff, these HSS disciplines have never been more critical than now for economic advances, government policy-making and the development of civil society. ER -