Coffeehouse – Page 4 – A collection of data blog posts from around the web

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Gender over Race? Equity and inclusion in higher education

by Taster • March 28, 2019

While universities are focusing on addressing gender inequality, Kalwant Bhopal and Holly Henderson find that there is little imperative to also address race and racism in the academy. They summarise the findings of a new study on the experiences of higher education staff working towards the Athena SWAN Charter and the Race Equality Charter. This post originally appeared on the LSE British Politics […]

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Reimbursement Culture and Widening Participation in Academia

by Taster • March 27, 2019

The cost of academic travel is often covered with upfront payments by researchers that are subsequently reimbursed by their institutions. In this post Sarah Thomson argues, that in order to develop a culture of widening participation in higher education, it is time to rethink this practice and the tacit assumption, especially with regard to PhD researchers, that they have access to the funds […]

Academic Publishing, author naming order, Featured, gender bias, journal editing, peer review, Women in Academia

Gender bias in peer review – Opening up the black box II

by Taster • March 26, 2019

In their previous post, Alex Holmes and Sally Hardy examined the results of research undertaken by the Regional Studies Association on the relationship between author gender and peer review outcomes in their flagship journal Regional Studies. Digging deeper into these findings, in this post, they assess the effect of gender on naming order in journals, peer reviewing and editorial processes. […]

Academic communication, Early career researchers, Featured, Impact, PhD advice, PhDchat, Public Engagement, research impact

A PhD is not just a degree – it is an opportunity to develop the skills needed to deliver impact

by Taster • March 25, 2019

Some PhD students and early career academics feel that the demands placed on them are so intense that they can never devote time to ‘secondary’ activities. Research comes first and last, and the doctorate ‘grind’ is something that has to be ‘got out of the way’ before they can focus on anything else. In contrast, Hayley Teasdale argues that PhD […]

AI, artificial intelligence, book review, Book Reviews, Featured, gender bias, politics of data series, techno-solutionism

Book Review: Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard

by Taster • March 24, 2019

In Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, Meredith Broussard adds to the growing literature exploring the limits of artificial intelligence (AI) and techno-solutionism, furthermore showing how its socially-constructed nature replicates existing structural inequalities. Calling for greater racial and gender diversity in tech, the book offers a timely, accessible and often entertaining account that sets the record straight on what current approaches to […]

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How diverse is your reading list? (Probably not very…)

by Taster • March 22, 2019

The dominance of scholars from the global North is widespread, and this extends to the student curriculum. Data on reading lists shows large authorial imbalances, which has consequences for the methodological tools available in research and allows dominant paradigms in disciplines to remain unchallenged. This post originally appeared on the Citing Africa Blog and is accompanied by a series of podcasts on […]