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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Conference presentations: speed dating for academics
Scholarly conferences are a regular part of the academic life. Whether big annual conferences run by scholarly associations, or smaller more focused conferences and workshops hosted in various institutions, academics attend conferences regularly. Or as often as possible given the … Continue reading
Who do you want to reach? An example
As I’ve argued in previous posts, publishing is all about reaching the people who can benefit from your ideas. For most academics, some of the people you want to reach are other academics. And the primary way you are going … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge Mobilization, Publishing
Tagged impact, journals, peer review, writing
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Relevance, Knowledge Mobilization & Humanities Research
This whole debate about “relevance” and speaking to non-academic audiences can get annoying really fast. Too much of it is focused on industry and policy, for starters. Not that there is anything wrong with producing knowledge for industry or policy … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge Mobilization
Tagged history, humanities, knowledge mobilization, relevance, theatre
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It’s fine to only want to reach other academics
I know Knowledge Mobilization, Relevance, Knowledge Transfer and all that are hot topics right now. And if you are doing work that has immediate relevance to particular non-academic audiences, you really need to work out the best way to reach … Continue reading
What if people do read journal articles
In a previous post I asked the question “Do you think no one reads journal articles?” I took the question seriously and talked about strategies for dealing with the perfectly reasonable lack of motivation to write journal articles if this … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge Mobilization, Publishing
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