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Alexander von Humboldt, Featured, free, Higher Education, Humboldtian, Impact, knowledge exchange, Public Engagement, REF, REF2014, REF2021, research impact

Impact is crippling higher education. But it is still part of the solution

by Blog Admin • April 23, 2018

Now a fixture of the higher education landscape, the “impact agenda” is partly fuelled by a cost-benefit framework that encourages universities to focus on demonstrating the economic value of their interventions. As a consequence, a clear pattern emerges with the government as the main beneficiary of impact, not wider society. Tina Basi and Mona Sloane argue that REF 2021 offers […]

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Book Review: Publish or Perish: Perceived Benefits versus Unintended Consequences by Imad A. Moosa

by Blog Admin • April 22, 2018

Academics today have to publish to succeed. In Publish or Perish: Perceived Benefits versus Unintended Consequences, Imad A. Moosa assesses the disastrous consequences of this view for academics, both personally and academically. Review by James Hartley. This review originally appeared on LSE Review of Books and is published under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 UK license. Publish or Perish: Perceived Benefits Versus Unintended Consequences. Imad […]

Data Publication, UC3

Dash Releases First Submission REST API

by Daniella Lowenberg • April 20, 2018

Over the last year the Dash team has spent time surveying the community on incentives for and ways to drive adoption of data publishing practices.…

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Is peer review bad for your mental health?

by Blog Admin • April 19, 2018

Amidst fears of a mental health crisis in higher education, to what extent is the peer review process a contributing factor? It’s a process fraught with uncertainty, as authors try to forge something constructive from often mixed feedback or occasionally downright unhelpful comments. Helen Kara stresses the importance of being aware of the effects of uncertainty and taking steps to […]

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PhD students supervised collectively rather than individually are quicker to complete their theses

by Blog Admin • April 18, 2018

Given the choice, most PhD students would prefer to receive individual supervision rather than be supervised alongside their peers as part of a collective. This is understandable, given the undivided attention and precise, directly relevant advice one would receive. However, Hans Agné and Ulf Mörkenstam have compared the experiences of individually and collectively supervised students on the same doctoral programme […]

data curation, Data reuse, Discoverability, Partnerships

Dryad to join launch of the Data Curation Network

by Elizabeth Hull • April 17, 2018

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant will fund implementation of shared staffing model across 7 academic libraries and Dryad We’re thrilled to announce that Dryad will participate in a three-year, multi-institutional effort to launch the Data Curation Network. The implementation — led by the University of Minnesota Libraries and backed by a $526,438 grant from the […]