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book review, Book Reviews, dissident knowledge, Featured, Higher Education, neoliberalism, Research Ethics, research evaluation, Research policy

Book Review: Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education edited by Marc Spooner and James McNinch

by Taster • February 17, 2019

In Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education, editors Marc Spooner and James McNinch bring together contributors including Noam Chomsky, Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Eve Tuck to offer critical perspectives on the impact of neoliberalism and new managerialism on universities. Grounded in rigorous research, this is a worthy read for scholars, policymakers and education practitioners, writes Khalaf Mohamed Abdellatif. This post originally appeared on LSE Review of Books. […]

Brexit, citizens of somewhere, Featured, Higher Education, higher education policy, Impact, research impact, Research policy

Citizens of Somewhere: What is the effect of the international profile of UK academia on national and international pathways to impact?

by Taster • February 15, 2019

In this post Cornelia Lawson, Ammon Salter, Alan Hughes, and Michael Kitson explore how international academics working in the UK higher education system contribute to impacts made inside and outside of the UK. Drawing on a survey of 18,000 academics, they note that whilst international academics contribute more to impacts outside of the UK than their UK counterparts, they are […]

academic precarity, action research, Early career researchers, Featured, Impact, metrics, Participatory Action Research, Planning, Research Ethics, research impact, research methods

Invisible impact and insecure academics: structural barriers to engagement and why we should do it anyway

by Taster • February 14, 2019

Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a form of research that involves prolonged and deep engagement with local communities and can produce profound social impacts. In this post, Dr Katrina Raynor describes how current approaches to impact assessment and the structure of the academic labour market impede researchers from engaging with PAR and raise particular challenges for insecurely employed early career […]

Academic communication, Academic Publishing, cOAlition S, Featured, open access, Open Access Consultation, Plan S, society publishing

Taking Stock of the Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance

by Taster • February 13, 2019

In this repost, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe reviews the feedback submitted in response to the Plan S consultation and highlights 7 themes that emerged from the thousands of pages submissions made to cOAlition S. Like many others, I found myself reading response after response after response to cOAlition S’ call for feedback on the Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S last week. […]

OrgID, Persistent Identifiers, PIDs, Projects, Research Organization Registry, ROR

Hear Us ROR! Announcing Our First Prototype and Next Steps

by Maria Gould • February 12, 2019

What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right! Last…

academic research tools, digital scholarship, discovery, Discovery Tools, Featured, metrics, Resources, search engines

Introducing the Observatory of International Research: A simple research discovery tool for everyone

by Taster • February 12, 2019

Andreas Pacher presents the Observatory of International Research (OOIR), a research tool that provides users with easy to use overviews and information for whole fields of social science research. Reflecting on the advantages and limitations of other discovery tools and the potential for information overload, Andreas points to the utility of OOIR in producing search results that are both broad […]