Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Leveling the Career Playing Field … with Audio
Viva Voce is a website platform that allows social science researchers to set up five minute podcasts about their research.
Gemma Sou argues podcasts are an ideal medium for early career researchers as social media tend to mirror the academic environment, with CV-like publication lists and stratified networks. By literally giving researchers a voice, findings can be brought to life and a more level playing field for researchers can be established.
Viva Voce Podcasts: What You Do, Not What You’ve Done
Make an impact! make an impact! Early career social scientists here that refrain all the time. Gemma Sou cast around for a way to give her colleagues a voice in that quest, and hit upon podcasts.
Staying Up-to-Date on Your Articles’ Impact
This is the first of two “ultimate guides” on practical tips for measuring the impact of academic output. Tomorrow we will examine […]
Tweeting Academics Weigh In on Social Media
A new survey asks cyber-savvy educators and researchers directly about their use of social media.
What is Peer Review? An Explainer
We’ve all heard the phrase “peer review” as giving credence to research and scholarly papers, but what does it actually mean? How […]
Are You an Academic Hermit?
Lack a personal website? No CV posted online? Is your work visible on digital listings? If you are answering no, Patrick Dunleavy offers some advice how to easily shed that monkish role — if you want to.
Concrete Advice for Writing Informative Abstracts
Be substantive and communicate your key findings – simple counsel from Patrick Dunleavy. But how exactly do you that? Here’s how.
Seven Strategies for Publishing Qualitative Research
In the April issue of Family Business Review, Trish Reay, an associate professor at the University of Alberta School of Business, offers […]
