Doing Open Social Science: A guide for researchers - Softcover

Dunleavy, Patrick; Monteath, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911712594 ISBN 13: 9781911712596

Publisher: LSE Press, 2026

Synopsis

Doing Open Social Science: A Guide For Researchers is the first comprehensive book setting out the principles and practices of open research, tailored specifically for those in the social science disciplines, at every career stage, offering practical advice on how to make research more transparent, trustworthy and reusable.

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About the Authors

Patrick Dunleavy is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He worked in the Department of Government at LSE from 1979 to 2020, and before that at the Open University and Nuffield College, Oxford. He is also Emeritus Professor of Government at the University of Canberra, where he was Centenary Professor 2015-21. A Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences, he also served as Founding Editor in Chief at LSE Press from 2020-2023. He was Director of the UK Democratic Audit from 2013-2020 and co-led the Australian Democratic Audit from 2020 to 2024. His recent books include Australia's Evolving Democracy: A New Democratic Audit (open access from LSE Press, 2024, co-edited with Mark Evans and John Phillimore); Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research, (2021, Palgrave, now Bloomsbury Press, co-authored with Jane Tinkler); and The UK's Changing Democracy: A New Democratic Audit (open access from LSE Press, 2018, co-edited with Alice Park and Rosamund Taylor).

Timothy Monteath has been Assistant Professor in Data Visualization in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methods at the University of Warwick since 2023. Previously, he was Associate Lecturer in Human Geography and Data Visualisation at University College, London; CIVICA Open Social Science Researcher at the LSE; and a post-doc Research Associate in Finance and Geography at the University of Oxford. His PhD in Sociology from the LSE focused on the Information Infrastructure of Land Registration in England. He is a co-author (with others) of Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money, Yale University Press, 2024.

Edition details

• Publisher: LSE Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911712594
• ISBN 13: 9781911712596
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428