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 […]
Job Search 2.0: Breaking the Silence
If we don’t discuss the job search as anything more than a painful memory, we add to the mystique of gaining academic employment, isolating ourselves in the process.
Can We Make College Cheaper?
The authors of “Why Does College Cost So Much?” take a look at the root causes and determine that we can reduce the price of higher education, but not dramatically.
To build a successful academic career, you need to play by the rules.
So what exactly are the rules by which academic careers work? Where does one learn them? How does one learn them? And how, exactly, is playing by the rules to the benefit of one’s career?
Balancing Independence with Support
How much autonomy do we have as Early Career Researchers?
Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research
“The social scientists we could do business with were those who grounded their ideas through field studies, cultural probes and social data”.
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.
