Academic communication, Altmetrics, communicating your research with social media, digital scholarship, Featured, metrics, Social Media for Academics, Social Science Altmetrics

“If you use social media then you are not working” – How do social scientists perceive altmetrics and online forms of scholarly communication?

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Altmetrics – web-based measures of research usage – have existed for a decade. However, a significant proportion of social science research fails to register any online attention at all. This impairs the usefulness of altmetrics as a tool to understand the relevance of social science research and also suggests social researchers are less inclined to engage in online arenas. In […]

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Academic communication, academic mobility, Academic Precariat, academic travel, Featured, Research Equity

Academic travel culture is not only bad for the planet, it is also bad for the diversity and equity of research.

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Responding to Jürgen Gerhards’ post on the ecological damage being done by excessive academic travel, Race MoChridhe observes how the financial and social burdens of academic travel add an additional barrier to participation in research and argues that if academia wants to address issues of diversity and equity in research, it must first acknowledge the effects of academic travel culture. […]

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book review, Book Reviews, Decolonizing curricula, decolonizing teaching and learning, Featured, feminism, Higher Education

Book Review: Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning edited by Sara de Jong, Rosalba Icaza and Olivia U. Rutazibwa

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In Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning, editors Sara de Jong, Rosalba Icaza and Olivia U. Rutazibwa offer a volume that not only shows how calls to decolonise universities are strengthened when connected to feminist perspectives, but also challenges the individualistic and Eurocentric foundations of many forms of feminism. This is an important contribution to debates on how to decolonise places of teaching and […]

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Essential 'how-to' Guides, Featured, How to, knowledge exchange, Knowledge Transfer, policymaking, research communication, research impact

Beware the well-intentioned advice of unusually successful academics

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There is a wealth of advice and ‘how to’ guides available to academics on the subject of how research can have an impact on policy and practice. In this post Kathryn Oliver and Paul Cairney assess the value of this literature, arguing that unless researchers seek to situate research impact within processes of policymaking and academic knowledge production, this advice […]

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