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 […]
An ECR Review of the year
Along with all the frivolity this is also the time of year where people look back at what they have done in the last twelve months so I am taking the opportunity with this post to look back at what’s happened this year
How do you establish trust and authority in today’s scholarly digital environment?
We would like to invite early career researchers to take part in a focus group to look at how scholars assign trust […]
Are You a Viking? University, Masculinity and the Language of Violence
The academic world today is in the process of being colonised by the values, mindset, and operational principles of business.
How to Improve Your CV and Get a Great Job
The unsettling truth about the Academic job market.
I Have No Time to Think and Write
The extent to which academics in different situations own their time appears to be closely associated with the distribution of privilege. In an academic world that is elitist one needs to acquire privileges in order to have time.
How Much Autonomy Do You Have as a Post-Doc
Considering the relationship between researcher and institution – maybe the disclaimer isn’t enough.
British Higher Education and the Language of Business
Money, markets, and higher education in the media.
A Sociologist’s Adventures in Social Media Land
Like many academics, I was quite oblivious to the virtues of using digital social media for professional purposes for rather a long time. Then one day earlier this year the scales fell from my eyes.
