Tag: scholarship
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Short podcast series on health professions education in South Africa
A few years ago I initiated a project in SAAHE where I started interviewing recent PhD graduates to promote the work being done in South African health professions education. I realised recently that I hadn’t captured that series here as part of my portfolio, so I’ve posted it here for my own records.
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Paywall: The business of scholarship
“Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. The film questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher, Elsevier, and looks at how that profit margin…
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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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History and development of ALiEM
Teresa Chan presented on the history and development of the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) community. I first came across this group through the KeyLIME podcast, although I’m not quite sure how / if Teresa was involved at all. Teresa made some useful comments about the practical challenges of building and growing a learning…
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In Beta newsletter: Scholarly podcasting
I just published a newsletter on In Beta, on the topic of scholarly podcasting. I think most people recognise that podcasts are a viable form of disseminating scholarly ideas, but few see it as a form of scholarship in its own right. A few years ago, I wrote a post called What does scholarship sound…
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Weekly digest (12-18 Jun 2023)
Podcasts I’ve been thinking about podcasts a lot this past week, in relation to a project I’m trying to get off the ground at work. Specifically, I’m thinking about podcasting as a legitimate scholarly activity, and trying to figure out how to set things up to make it as easy as possible for colleagues to…
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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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It takes effort to understand…
“…the act of writing forces me to think a bit more than clicking once and having it served up from an automated system. The process of seeking out information sources, making sense of them through some actions, and then sharing with others to confirm or accelerate my knowledge are manual activities, requiring effort on my…
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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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Why shouldn’t journals publish translations of articles alongside the English version?
Update (14 April 2022): If you’re interested in the notion that something is lost when we default to English as the language of scientific communication, you may be interested in this reflective podcast by Shaun Cleaver that was prepared as part of the 2020 In beta unconference. A few days ago I received a submission…
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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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Comment: Audiobook listening as scholarship
I sometimes lose track of what I’m listening to, I start thinking over it in a way which almost drowns out the track. I might make a note to follow up a point from the audiobook but I don’t get to it for days by which point the intellectual urge has vanished and I can’t…
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Comment: Podcasting as scholarship
With the rise of podcasting as a forum for academic conversations and as a teaching tool, Hannah McGregor of SFU’s Publishing department set out to investigate — and enact — podcasting as a form of scholarly communication, knowledge mobilization, and open pedagogy. Hannah is in conversation with host Am Johal about her research into the…
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Resource: The Scholarly Kitchen podcast.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is a “nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field.” I’m mainly familiar with SSP because I follow their Scholarly Kitchen blog series and only recently came across the…
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Article: Which are the tools available for scholars?
In this study, we explored the availability and characteristics of the assisting tools for the peer-reviewing process. The aim was to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the tools available at this time, and to hint at new trends for further developments…. Considering these categories and their defining traits, a curated list of 220 software…