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Tag Archives: academics
Jun 20 2012
An administrative blight is destined to spread throughout universities if academics don’t learn how to resist
Comments OffThe structure of universities in the UK, US and Canada have altered dramatically in recent years with numbers of administrative and support personnel rising rapidly by up to 300 per cent in some institutions. Benjamin Ginsberg warns that academic priorities … Continue reading
Posted by: June 20, 2012
Tagged with: academics, Business, impact, Research funding
May 11 2012
The data confirms: If you want to stay in science and see your children grow up don’t have children before you have tenure
6 CommentsWomen are much more likely than men to move out of the research-professor pipeline in order to have children. Bjoern Brembs wonders if we should make science a 9-5 job in order to accommodate women with children, or should we … Continue reading
Posted by: May 11, 2012
Tagged with: academics, funding, impact
Apr 8 2012
Book review: European Universities and the Challenge of the Market: A Comparative Analysis, by Marino Regini
Comments OffIn a study of higher education institutions in six European countries, Marino Regini considers the increasing marketization of higher education, and presents a useful ‘typology of HE change’. Tony Murphy feels that the study is too heavy and complex in places, … Continue reading
Posted by: April 8, 2012
Tagged with: academics, Bologna Process, Europe, fees, HE, market logic, students, University
Apr 1 2012
Book Review: A Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences: Robber Barons, the Third Reich and the Invention of Empirical Social Research, by Christian Fleck
1 CommentA Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences helps us better understand how and in what way the social sciences came to occupy a central place in universities across Europe and North America. Author Christian Fleck shows that the social sciences were … Continue reading
Posted by: April 1, 2012
Tagged with: academics, impact, social science
Mar 25 2012
Book Review: Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine by Elizabeth Popp Berman
Comments OffContributing to debates about the relationship between universities, government, and industry, Elizabeth Popp Berman sheds light on how knowledge and politics intersect to structure the economy. Arnaud Vaganay finds the book to be extremely topical: UK universities are now catching up with their … Continue reading
Posted by: March 25, 2012
Tagged with: academics, government, industry
Feb 5 2012
LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2012: bringing the arts and social sciences together.
Comments OffThe LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2012 is almost here, and with a wide selection of excellent speakers from across the academic disciplines, it’s not to be missed. Literary Festival Organiser Louise Gaskell introduces the festival and gives her tips for … Continue reading
Posted by: February 5, 2012
Tagged with: academic writing, academics, arts, humanities, literary festival, LSE, social science
Jan 23 2012
The REF will strangle our vibrant academic community: it will alter morale, academic valuation of our work, and the way in which we do it
1 CommentAs researchers debate ideas of how to create an academic impact in preparation for the REF, Dr Peter Wells looks at the impact that the REF stands to have on academics, their morale and the ways in which they work. … Continue reading
Posted by: January 23, 2012
Tagged with: academics, impact, REF, research, Research Excellence Framework, teaching
Jan 22 2012
Book Review: A Manifesto for the Public University by John Holmwood.
1 CommentWhat does the future hold for higher education? Is the university set to become like the panopticon, where academics are constantly surveyed and regulated in the name of efficiency? Tony Murphy finds that A Manifesto for the Public University is a must for … Continue reading
Posted by: January 22, 2012
Tagged with: academics, education policy, funding, government, higher education, higher education reforms, universities
Jan 14 2012
Book Review: The Publish or Perish Book
2 CommentsAnne-Wil Harzing provides an excellent introduction to the complex world of article level citation data in the Publish or Perish Book. Dave Puplett, E-Services Manager at the Library of The London School of Economics, highly recommends Harzing’s book to any researcher who wishes … Continue reading
Posted by: January 14, 2012
Tagged with: academics, Anne-Wil Harzing, citation analysis, citations, Google Scholar Citations, h-score, journal articles, journals, libraries, phd, Publish or Perish, references, Scopus, self citations, Web of Science
Dec 17 2011
Our most popular guest blog posts of 2011…
1 CommentHere come our top 10 most popular guest posts of the year. Thank you to all our contributors and readers! 1: Social media is inherently a system of peer evaluation and is changing the way scholars disseminate their research, … Continue reading
Posted by: December 17, 2011
Tagged with: Academic communication, academics, digital era, open access, public engagement, Research funding, teaching
