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Implications of Federal Budget for SSHRC
While I am as concerned as anyone about the total amount of money allocated to the Tri-Councils and related agencies in the recent Canadian federal budget, I am more worried about another trend — the threat to peer decision making … Continue reading
Posted in Funding
Tagged CIHR, Federal budget 2012, funding squeeze, Ghoussoub, NSERC, peer review, SSHRC, success rates
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What the delay to SSHRC Insight results might mean
The fact that the decisions are delayed tells me that SSHRC is making changes in this competition budget. The budget they are allocating based on the peer adjudication that happened in March is now smaller than was originally envisioned.
There are 2 ways that they can address this sudden contraction:
reduce the success rate
an across the board cut to project budgets Continue reading
Just because it doesn’t feel productive…
A couple of my clients are working on writing projects right now. And some weeks, their updates are less than enthusiastic. They are discouraged by their progress.
Here’s a different angle on reading that doesn’t feel like real research.
You might spend a lot of time reading with a particular project in mind only to discover that nothing you read is going to end up in what you are writing.
Although that feels like you wasted several hours reading stuff you didn’t need to read, it was actually time well spent. Continue reading
Posted in My services, Research, Work Habits
Tagged coaching, productivity, reading, writing
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What is “research”?
Back in late January and early February, Rohan Maitzen published a few very thoughtful posts about what counts are research, the apparent conflict between research and teaching, and related issues. The title of one of these posts was “When is … Continue reading
Posted in My services, Research, Work Habits
Tagged coaching, reading, research, Rohan Maitzen, scholarship
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Academia is not a world apart
Most of the time when I sit down to write posts, I have a particular audience in mind. Most of my clients are tenured or tenure-track academics in the social sciences and humanities, or the equivalent. Sometimes I have specific … Continue reading
Posted in Career Planning, My services
Tagged academic labour market, Conscious Careers, non-academic careers, Twitter
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