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Tag Archives: humanities
Ask me about research grants!
Are you thinking about applying for a research grant? Maybe you feel under pressure to apply but you don’t know if you really need one? What do you want to know but weren’t sure who to ask? I’ve been helping … Continue reading
Posted in Funding
Tagged Funding, grants, humanities, questions, social sciences, SSHRC
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The biggest challenge with grant proposals
Research is funded based on the likely significance of the contribution to knowledge. However, it’s tricky to know what that is prior to doing the research. In this post, I use the example of Fermat’s Last Theorem to draw out some of the issues and propose some strategies for tackling this in your research proposal. Continue reading
Posted in Funding, My services
Tagged context, ESRC, Funding, grants, humanities, literature review, mathematics, proposal, significance, social sciences, SSHRC
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On advice about publishing before securing an academic job
Your doctoral supervisor (and indeed the entire department) has an interest in you getting a tenure-track job. It is in their interests to give you good advice.
That said, sometimes their knowledge of the labour market is limited. Assume that they have good intentions, but don’t treat their advice as gospel. Things have been changing fast. Continue reading
Posted in Career Planning
Tagged academic job search, book publishing, humanities, information interviews, monograph, Publishing, writing
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Believe it or not, I do this for a living
I never would have imagined it were possible. Given that there was no internet when I was a teenager, running my own business over the internet is obviously not something I’ve wanted to do forever. In fact, running my own … Continue reading
Posted in My services
Tagged academic, blog, business, career change, coaching, early career, humanities, joy, mid-career, Naomi Dunford, PhD, social sciences, University Affairs
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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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