Coffeehouse – Page 2 – A collection of data blog posts from around the web

Academic communication, conferences, Featured, Invited Speakers, Presentation Customisation, Research Presentations, Seminars

The Art of Connection – To deliver a good research seminar you need to connect with an audience at a pragmatic, intellectual and emotional level

by Taster • November 5, 2019

Academic research is often an international undertaking that requires researchers to present their findings in any number of different cultural contexts. In contrast, research presentations normally adhere to a universalist principle, assuming that all audiences are alike in their interest in any given subject. In this post, Zehra Waheed outlines how successful presentations do not simply convey information, but are […]

economics, Economics Nobel Prize, Evidence-based Policy, Evidence-based Research, Impact, Randomized Controlled Trials, RCTs, research methods

If we’re serious about changing the world, we need to get our evidence right – A comment on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics.

by Taster • November 4, 2019

The announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize in economics has highlighted divisions within the development economics community, particularly around the efficacy of using Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) as a tool for making social interventions. In this post Gorgi Krlev discusses the pros and cons of experimental approaches in economics and suggests that rather than seeing routes to delivering social change as […]

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SDR Deposit of the Month: Player piano rolls jump to the 21st century

by Hannah C Frost • November 3, 2019

Roll mechanism of a Welte-Mignon reproducing piano.

November 3, 2019

by Hannah Frost

Digitization

Sound recordings

Stanford Digital Repository

Who could have guessed it? Player pianos rolls, those curious scrolls of punched, now brittle and yellowed paper you might come across at the thrift store, are at the center of new research underway at – where else? — the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

#AcWri, academic writing, Book Reviews, Featured, PhDchat, thesis writing

Book Review: Writing a Watertight Thesis: A Guide to Successful Structure and Defence by Mike Bottery and Nigel Wright

by Taster • November 3, 2019

In Writing a Watertight Thesis: A Guide to Successful Structure and Defence, Mike Bottery and Nigel Wright provide a framework by which research students will be able to structure both their thesis project and the journey required to carry a candidate to a successful endpoint. While the book offers useful and valuable advice to researchers at any stage in their PhD studies, Courteney O’Connor particularly recommends it […]

Coproduction, Evidence-based Policy, Featured, knowledge exchange, Public Engagement, research communication, Research Imapct, Science and technology studies, Stakeholders, STS

Who are stakeholders in research? A Science and Technology Studies approach to navigating research impact

by Taster • November 1, 2019

The early engagement of ‘stakeholders’ in research is often presented as a simple way to ensure that research is aligned to the needs of research users and therefore impactful. However, who these stakeholders are and what their interests might be is not always obvious. In this post Robert Borst and Annette Boaz reflect on their research on stakeholder engagement as part of a larger European […]

Digital Content, digital scholarship, Inside the Library, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration

Sprinting toward a Lab: defining, connecting and writing a book in five days

by Abbey Potter • October 31, 2019

A lab is where experimental and research-focused tools, methods, and services are incubated. The starting premise for a lab is often wanting to spur change and make space for new practice and new people. Yet calling something a lab can also signal separation between traditional services and new approaches. Labs, and innovation in general, can […]