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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
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Tagged coaching, excellence, Funding, If I Knew Then..., originality, peer review
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How Professors Think
I have been awaiting Michèle Lamont’s book, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, for a long time. Her study of peer review in multi-disciplinary humanities and social science grant competitions in the US first came to … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, excellence, grants, How Professors Think, humanities, Michele Lamont, originality, peer review, social sciences
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