Category: Scholarship
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Head space visual refresh
Announcing an update to the Head Space project. A complete visual refresh, emphasising simplicity and focus.
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Last day for discounted access to Head space course
This 3-hour course focuses on practical ways to incorporate generative AI into your daily academic routines, from reading and writing to creating and learning. You’ll explore how to use AI as a coach, a brainstorming partner, and a project assistant. The goal here is not only to teach you how to use AI, but to…
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Head space course on Generative AI for Academics is available
The introduction of generative AI into our workflows presents both an exciting opportunity and a significant challenge. However, because of the unique nature of large language models, it can be difficult to know exactly how to integrate them into our existing areas of practice. The aim of the course is to help academics develop a…
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New Head space course: AI for academics
Announcing an upcoming Head space introductory course on generative AI for academics.
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Obstacles to developing academic expertise
Developing academic expertise is challenging due to delayed feedback, unclear processes, and limited opportunities to observe experts. The post explores how academic tools and systems often lack the capacity for nuanced expression and open-endedness, making it difficult for scholars to attain virtuosity in their field and develop expert performance.
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In Beta newsletter – Open Scholarship
Open scholarship should be about reshaping higher education, from open educational resources to open access journals. But in reality it is almost always positioned as a way to advance someone’s career. For example, publish in open-access journals to increase ‘reach’ and citations. We need another way to think about scholarship that looks beyond academia.
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Pint of Science feedback infographics
In May I presented a session for the Pint of Science event, on the topic of generative AI in society, and the organisers have just shared some feedback from the event, which I’m posting here as a record. I enjoyed the experience very much and hope to be involved in the future.
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What does a ‘lecturer’ do?
This infographic shows the diverse roles of a typical lecturer, spanning responsibilities across teaching, research, and service. The balance between these areas varies, highlighting the multifaceted nature of the role.
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The Good and Bad Of Academia
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/the-good-and-bad-of-academia “There are of course also many things I don’t like about academia. Such as using language styles more to impress than to communicate, treating prestige as if it counted for strong evidence, insisting on either strong methods or silence, and ignoring most everything done by non-academics.“ It’s the last part of this except that…
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Sharing rejections…
in ScholarshipI’m about to post three pieces of work that I submitted for presentation at the 2023 AMEE conference, all of which were rejected. I have two reasons for sharing these rejections: And maybe it’s also worth adding that rejection need not equal failure, if the work being rejected was a stepping stone to something else.…
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Calm Productivity course goes live on 24 February
Over the past few months, I’ve been building an online course called Calm Productivity, as part of my Head space project. It’s taken way longer than I’d hoped it would, and required a lot more work than I’d anticipated. But I’m very happy with the outcome and can’t wait to release it in a couple…
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More than my h-index – African Doctoral Academy
The presentation was given to a group of early career researchers and PhD students as part of the African Doctoral Academy. Download the slides. The main premise of my presentation was that academics are often driven to measure the quality of our work by quantitative metrics and journal impact factors because those are relatively easy…
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Head space: Calm productivity for knowledge work
Head space is a programme for academics who want to establish new habits and routines aimed at cultivating a space for calm productivity. To escape the unproductive and frenetic activities that fill our days. And to create the head space we need to do the work we love. I’ve started A New Thing. It’s called Head space…
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OpenPhysio podcast: Considering the precariat
Earlier this month I finally managed to publish an episode of the OpenPhysio podcast that’s been on my to-do list for about a year. I’ve been wanting to get the journal podcast series up and running for a while but for various reasons I haven’t been able to work on it as regularly as I’d…
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Thinking in public: From note to publication – A conversation with David Nicholls
Towards the end of 2021 I recorded a conversation with David Nicholls.[1] I wanted to talk to Dave about his process for converting incoming information into the kinds of outputs that so many in the health professions community find valuable. We talked about how we both try to limit the information we’re exposed to, how we…
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Thinking in public: A conversation with Tom Jesson
Tom Jesson is a physiotherapist, and self-employed researcher and writer based in Houston Texas, who I’ve wanted to speak to for a while. While I’ve always known Tom to be a thoughtful and careful writer, evident in his work that’s been published and shared widely in physiotherapy circles, I’ve not really thought much about how…
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Publishing essays as scholarly work
A few days ago the OpenPhysio journal published a collection of speculative fiction essays, called Physiopunk, written by first-year physiotherapy students at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The project was an initiative of Filip Maric and colleagues in the department, and is an attempt to help students think creatively about the kinds of futures we may…
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Resource: An overview of note-taking workflow and tools from Ton Zijlstra
There are hundreds of resources on note-taking systems so don’t take this post as anything more than a collection that caught my attention. Once you go down the ‘zettelkasten’ or ‘digital garden’ rabbit holes, you may find that it takes a while to get out again. If you already have a sense of what the…