Αχιλλέας Κωστούλας * Ιστοσελίδα και Ιστολόγιο
A couple of weeks ago, I did a workshop with a group of doctoral students in which we talked about academic publishing. One of the themes that came up in the discussion is that many of them felt reasonably confident when it came to writing about their research, but were apprehensive about whatever happens after …
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What can we learn from bad feedback?
There was a blog post recently over at Peer Review Watch, reporting on a small scale survey among postgraduate students in City University London, regarding their views on peer review. In one of the questions, participants were asked how they would feel about providing peer review for papers submitted by their supervisors. The responses, I am afraid, …
Predictably, this has been a relatively quiet week in terms of academic news. Still, here the weekly round up of notable articles, posts and stories that I came across: Cracking down on knowledge sharing The first story that caught my attention this week was about everybody's favourite publisher: it appears that Elsevier is on a …
This post has been prompted by an edited collection that I was recently asked to review. Substantive comments on the book will be published elsewhere, so you may want to watch this space for updates; but what I want to do in this post, instead, is share some thoughts regarding research methods and the role …
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