Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
African Academics Prey to (Academic Journal) Predators
In the past few years there has been an insidious rise in predatory journals and publishers, notes Adele Thomas, and African academics have not been immune to their predation.
Manufactured Controversy: Adam Perkins, the Psychological Imagination and the Marketing of Scholarship
The content of scholarly debates is increasingly secondary to the instrumentalization of scholarship in the promotion of one’s brand,” says our Daniel Nehring. It may not matter much that this brand is built on — academically at least — somewhat dubious welfare bashing, as long as the right markers of scholarly status are attached to it.
A Visual Approach to Professional Communication
[We’re pleased to welcome Deborah C. Andrews of University of Delaware, author of the article “Making the Familiar Strange: Thinking Visually in […]
How Do Aggressive Communication Traits Impact Organizational Assimilation?
[We’re pleased to welcome Michael Sollitto of Texas A&M University. Dr. Sollitto recently published an article in International Journal of Business Communication […]
I Have a Journal Article. How Do I Write a Blog Post About it?
If you can really do communication in an accessible way, explains Patrick Dunleavy, your writing may also circulate widely in other disciplines and in the external world outside universities, enhancing your reputation there. And you are in luck – he also explains one way to do that.
Business Journals Say They Will Publish ‘Null’ Results
In a joint statement, 10 editors representing some of the academia’s most prestigious journals for management, organisational behavior and work psychology research, have vowed to publish research that fails to prove a hypotheses.
Witherspoon: We Must Show How We Create a Public Good
In the third annual Campaign for Social Science/SAGE lecture, Sharon Witherspoon said we must show the ways ‘social science can give rise to public benefit’
From Agora to Shopping Mall: Tone-of-Voice Policies, Marketing and the Re-making of British Universities
Tone-of-voice policies raise serious questions about the future of academic freedom in Britain and the extent to which academic labour may come to be subject to the financial and political objectives of the corporate managers that form universities’ leadership.
