book review, Book Reviews, Data, data series, David Beer, Foucault, metrics, politics of data series

Book Review: The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception by David Beer

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In The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception, David Beer explores how we are being put under the extractive, analytic and predictive lens of a data gaze that seeks to define our world in increasingly granular detail. Critically probing into the data analytics industry and the imaginary that gives it legitimacy, Beer offers a thoroughly readable take on the structures that are constructing and […]

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book review, Book Reviews, Data, data series, David Beer, Featured, Foucault, metrics, politics of data series

Book Review: The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception by David Beer

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In The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception, David Beer explores how we are being put under the extractive, analytic and predictive lens of a data gaze that seeks to define our world in increasingly granular detail. Critically probing into the data analytics industry and the imaginary that gives it legitimacy, Beer offers a thoroughly readable take on the structures that are constructing and […]

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Higher Education, Impact, REF 2021, REF2021, Research England, research evaluation, UKRI

Six important things about impact you need to know from the REF2021 guidance

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Mark Reed presents 6 key points from the REF2021 guidelines and outlines how they change the current working understanding of impact in the UK.     The final guidance for REF2021 was released this week. Most of the guidance on impact is consistent with what I expected from the consultation. For the full guidance on the submission of impact case […]

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Featured, Higher Education, Impact, REF 2021, REF2021, Research England, research evaluation, UKRI

Six important things about impact you need to know from the REF2021 guidance

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Mark Reed presents 6 key points from the REF2021 guidelines and outlines how they change the current working understanding of impact in the UK.     The final guidance for REF2021 was released this week. Most of the guidance on impact is consistent with what I expected from the consultation. For the full guidance on the submission of impact case […]

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Think. Check. Attend. Your guide to avoiding predatory conferences

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Predatory conferences (conferences promoted to fraudulently make money from attendance fees) are becoming an increasingly common part of academic life. In this post, Mohamad Mostafa presents the Think. Check. Attend. initiative, which provides academics with an easy to use checklist to ascertain if a conference is legitimate or predatory. As an academic, you have probably received many invitation emails asking […]

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