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Hetan Shah
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Hetan Shah
@HetanShah
CEO @BritishAcademy_ Chair @OurWorldinData Board NAO; Visiting Prof KCL; Fellow @BirkbeckUoL Now find me on Bluesky @hetanshah
- Tell your fave Indian wedding caterer they only need to send half their usual teamHow do you cater for a wedding with 600 guests? 📻 bbc.in/2wZrv6P
- I’m not that shockable these days but seriously @ukhomeoffice? This international student was held in a detention centre for TEN DAYS after his uni confirmed he had a place & had paid his fees? He’s missed his enrolment & has to fly home out of pocket
- Replying to @HetanShahCome for the joke about the Royal Wedding. Stay for discussions on improving data infrastructure for the public good.
- Hey Twitter. At the end of February I’ll be starting as CEO of @BritishAcademy_. I’d welcome views/advice/thoughts on what the BA should be doing to strengthen the humanities & social sciences and their impact on society. Please share this tweet so I can get input.
- At last some coverage of the major cyber attack at @britishlibrary & the impact this has had on researchers. It is a critical piece of national infrastructure. Worrying if they will have to spend 40% of their reserves on rebuilding their digital services
- Our @BritishAcademy_ Small Grants scheme has opened. We are doing a 3 year trial of partial randomised assessment, because we receive so many good applications. Awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…
- Delighted to say we have awarded our most significant prize - the @BritishAcademy_ President’s Medal - to @DavidOlusoga for his outstanding contribution to the humanities and social sciences
- After eight great years @RoyalStatSoc I’m excited to say I’m moving on to become chief executive of @BritishAcademy_ where I plan to bring social science & humanities research to the big issues of the day
- We’ve opened the call for @BritishAcademy_ Visiting Fellowships 2025! As part of our commitment to international engagement we will give up to £40k for academics to spend 3-6 months to be based at a UK higher education or other research institution thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/visiti…
- We've opened the call for our @BritishAcademy_ small grants scheme offering £10k. We receive so many good applications so awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold.
- ‘Epidemics are social as well as biological phenomena.’ My @nature piece on the importance of social science and humanities in tackling our big global challenges nature.com/articles/d4158…
- Is life in the UK really as bad as the numbers suggest? This @TimHarford piece is ouch on.ft.com/3iYesel
- It’s the 200th anniversary Florence Nightingale’s birth. She was the first woman to be a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society - here’s her application form which I took a photo of when I worked there. We can see her data driven approach today in how we respond to Covid-19
