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SSHRC’s Priority Areas explained
Are you wondering what those Priority Areas are about? How did they get identified? If you aren’t doing research in one of those areas, what are your chances of getting funding? Don’t panic. Although the name has changed in the … Continue reading
Validation vs communication: another example
How is it that just as I write that post about validation and how stuck it can get you, I find another relevant link: Why Lists are a Flawed Approach to Assessing Excellence Continue reading
Posted in Academic Culture, Publishing
Tagged evaluation, journal rankings, journals, peer review, The Australian, validation
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Peer reviewed journal articles and monographs in the academic evaluation process
This is the 2nd post in a series on how your scholarship is evaluated in various academic evaluation processes. I was inspired by the comments on a blog post on Melville and the knowledge that some of my readers do … 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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The system is human
Recently a client got turned down for a small amount of money she’d applied for from her university’s internal research grants competition. Not surprisingly, she was devastated. The gremlins were telling her that if she couldn’t even get this small … Continue reading
Posted in Funding
Tagged coaching, excellence, Funding, If I Knew Then..., originality, peer review
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