tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497612812060325022024-03-08T13:23:27.918-08:00Humanities Faculty (pure humanities & social sciences)Research, Teaching & Learning in the Humanities... resources; scholarly communication; research impact; Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-44155683337876148432017-11-06T06:04:00.002-08:002017-11-06T06:04:49.909-08:00<h1 class="content-item__title" style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Digital-Humanities-Bust/241424?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=16096bd42c404edca89601c6ced984b5&elq=78dc308094fe4ce9aac7ed267fae3815&elqaid=16340&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7062">The Digital-Humanities Bust</a></h1>
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After a decade of investment and hype, what has the field accomplished? Not much</div>
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<span class="content-item__byline">By Timothy Brennan </span> <span class="content-item__date">
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<span style="background-color: #999999;"><span style="color: lime;">Do see the 53 comments in the thread at the end!!!</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/Digital-Is-Not-the/241634?cid=wcontentgrid_41_2">‘Digital’ Is Not the Opposite of ‘Humanities’ <span class="content-item__byline">By Sarah E. Bond, Hoyt Long, and Ted Underwood </span> <span class="content-item__date">
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<a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/There-Is-No-Such-Thing-as/241633?cid=wcontentgrid_41_2">There Is No Such Thing as ‘the Digital Humanities’<span class="content-item__byline"> By Eric Weiskott </span> </a><span class="content-item__date"><a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/There-Is-No-Such-Thing-as/241633?cid=wcontentgrid_41_2"> November 01, 2017 </a> </span></h4>
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<br />Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-70893930984501818562017-01-29T23:45:00.000-08:002017-01-29T23:45:52.253-08:00South African Universities in 2017 - future prospects?<br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;">While it is unlikely that South Africa will escape student unrest at the
start of the 2017 academic year, authorities are hoping such action
will be moderated by the progress made in addressing some of the key
challenges that sparked and sustained last year’s violent and highly
disruptive protests over fee-free higher education...</span></b></div>
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Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-41140911221057768312016-06-13T01:54:00.000-07:002016-06-13T02:08:23.490-07:00Generation Z – Why we need to future-proof universities<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2016052514252692">Future-proof universities </a></div>
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Article by Tom White </div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Brought up in a world of smartphones, high speed wi-fi and technology on
tap, Generation Z's lives revolve around a digital world... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">So, for example, <span style="background-color: cyan;">how are we putting digital technology at the very heart
of our education system? </span>Let’s take a lecture theatre, for example: how
is this a digitally interactive experience for students? How can
students access learning materials, resources and academic papers? Is an
intranet system really going to cut it?...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Technology is obviously a key area where universities can make
improvements.<span style="background-color: cyan;"> However, considering just how familiar Generation Z is
with marketing techniques, smart and truly engaging content needs to be a
major priority.</span></span></div>
<i><b>From: University World News</b></i><br />
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Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-67884415872364939972016-04-08T07:24:00.001-07:002016-04-08T07:24:18.538-07:00<h1 class="content__headline js-score" itemprop="headline">
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/mar/23/follow-the-leaders-the-best-social-media-accounts-for-academics?CMP=share_btn_tw">the best social media accounts for academics</a></h1>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;">Irreverent, funny and informative – higher education does the
internet really well. Here are our favourite blogs and Twitter accounts </span></div>
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<i>From the Higher Education Network - Helen Lock, 23 March 2016, The Guardian </i></div>
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Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-22923745206983843342016-01-26T01:10:00.000-08:002016-01-26T01:21:33.909-08:00Social Media & Academia<h3 class="entry-title instapaper_title" itemprop="name">
<b></b><b><span style="color: lime;"> <a href="https://theconversation.com/why-universities-should-start-taking-social-media-far-more-seriously-52990">Why universities should start taking social media far more seriously </a></span></b></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Social media is a risky space. Many people have learned this the hard way ...</span></span></span><b><span style="color: lime;"> </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Employers must understand the risks involved as they and their
stakeholders set out to engage with the wider community on social media...Universities in South Africa have neglected the development of social
media policies until now. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><br /><span style="background-color: #45818e;"><span style="background-color: white;">From: The Conversation, January 18 2016. Article by </span></span></span><span class="fn author-name" itemprop="name">Miemie Struwig & Amanda van den Berg</span><span style="display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; padding-left: 2px;">(<span style="display: inline; font-size: 12px;">CC BY-ND 4.0</span>)</span></div>
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Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-73283741408938900282016-01-14T02:54:00.001-08:002016-01-14T23:56:13.938-08:00Why do academics choose useless titles for articles and chapters?<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/02/05/academics-choose-useless-titles/">Four steps to getting a better title.</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: lime; font-size: small;"><i>An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for. Without embedded cues, your work will sit undisturbed on other scholars’ PDF libraries, or languish unread among hundreds of millions of other documents on the Web. </i><b>Patrick Dunleavy</b><i> presents examples of frequently used useless titles and advises on using a full narrative title, one that makes completely clear your argument, conclusions or findings. </i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime;"><i></i><i></i></span> From LSE: The Impact Blog, Feb 5th 2014 (work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_GB" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>)Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-57731631403826447172015-11-05T00:03:00.000-08:002015-11-05T00:05:27.420-08:00University rankings wield immense influence over Higher Ed and society at large – with positive and perverse effects.<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>In a time of growing demand for and on higher education, </i></div>
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<i><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/11/university-rankings-tip-of-iceberg/">university rankings have transformed university strategy</a>. </i><b> </b><br />
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<b>Ellen Hazelkorn</b><i> finds t</i><i>heir crude simplicity is what makes rankings so infectious. Yet, quality is a complex concept. <span style="background-color: #6aa84f;">Most of the indicators used are effectively measures of socio-economic advantage, and privilege the most resource-intensive institutions and-or countries. In response and reaction to the limited nature of rankings, alternative methodologies and new formats have emerged.</span></i><br />
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After a decade, it’s clear that rankings have, controversially, fired a shot across the bow of higher education and their host governments. They may have started out being about informing student choice but, in today’s highly globalised and competitive world, they have become much more about geo-political factors for nations and higher education institutions.<br />
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From: LSE The Impact Blog, April 11th 2014 Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-9003368868412324052015-09-21T07:57:00.000-07:002015-09-22T02:40:38.334-07:00Human DevelopmentPromoting the use of the Journal <span style="color: lime;"><a href="http://www.karger.com/Journal/Home/224249">'Human Development' </a></span>by Rhodes University students and staff!!<br />
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Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-1110742843341524332015-05-04T08:03:00.000-07:002015-05-04T08:18:37.534-07:00Yes or No to a Career in the Humanities ???<h2 itemprop="headline">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/01/22/majoring-in-the-humanities-does-pay-off-just-later/">Majoring In The Humanities Does Pay Off, Just Later</a></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>From: Susan Adams, Forbes Staff, 22/1/2014 </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: lime;">Majoring in the humanities seems like a bad idea these days. </span>Employers
don’t want to hire you, we hear, and when they do, they pay poorly (I’ve
written three stories saying as much in the last two weeks).<span style="background-color: lime;"> But a new <a href="http://www.aacu.org/leap/nchems/index.cfm">study</a>
out today gives hope to liberal arts graduates. ...But at least humanities graduates hold
their own.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/22/see-how-liberal-arts-grads-really-fare-report-examines-long-term-data">Liberal Arts Grads Win Long-Term</a></span></h2>
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<i>From: Allie Grasgreen, 22/1/2014</i></div>
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reporting on the US report “<a href="http://www.aacu.org/leap/nchems/index.cfm" target="_blank">How Liberal Arts and Sciences Majors Fare in Employment</a>,” </div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: lime;">Employers consistently say they want to hire people who have a broad
knowledge base and can work together to solve problems, debate,
communicate and think critically, the report notes – all skills that
liberal arts programs aggressively, and perhaps uniquely, strive to
teach.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>From: Dispatches from Drury's Humanities Division</i></span></div>
<i> </i><span style="background-color: lime;">One fact about the Humanities that is well acknowledged is that
studying it leads to personal satisfaction...Does this personal satisfaction come at a practical cost? </span>Some will
have you believe that students interested in the Humanities must <i>choose </i>between personal <i>or </i>economic satisfaction. Thankfully, the data does not support this re a recent study commissioned by the <i>Academy of the Arts and Sciences </i>(AAS) collected data on available jobs.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://humanities.drury.edu/?page_id=281">Salaries in the Humanities</a></span></h2>
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<i><span style="font-weight: normal;">From: Dispatches from Drury's Humanities Division</span></i></h2>
<span style="background-color: lime;">In addition to discussion about unemployment rates, it is important
for people to have a good idea of</span> <span style="background-color: lime;">the salary implications of majoring in
the Humanities. </span>Now, remember, here we are talking about <i>only majoring </i>in
the Humanities. Double majoring in a Humanities field and in a
non-Humanities field combines the power of the skill sets for both
sides. Here, however, we focus just on single majors.<br />
Humanities majors do well! On <i>average </i>they do make less than their non-Humanities counterparts, but not much less. In fact, particular Humanities fields, such as <i>philosophy, history, </i>and <i>marketing, </i>earn more at <b><i>mid-career</i></b> than the non-Humanities average. Additionally, <i>philosophy majors </i>(along
with physics majors) see the largest start to mid-career salary boost –
a whopping 104.5% increase over that period re the latest Georgetown study<br />
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Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-66083175842207521062015-03-31T01:35:00.000-07:002015-03-31T01:43:28.104-07:00How Articles Get Noticed and Advance the Scientific Conversation<span style="background-color: #b4a7d6;">Gozde Ozakinci, a lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, offers an exemplary use of Twitter in a research workflow.</span><br />
<blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #b4a7d6;">I dip in and out during the day and each time I have a nugget of information that I find useful. I feel that with Twitter, my academic world expanded to include many colleagues I wouldn’t otherwise meet. … The information shared on Twitter is so much more current than you would find on journals or conferences.</span></blockquote>
<b>The good news is you’ve published your manuscript! The bad news? With two million other new research articles likely to be published this year, you face steep competition for readers, downloads, citations and media attention — even if only 10% of those two million papers are in your discipline.</b><br />
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<a href="http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2015/03/get-paper-noticed-join-current-scientific-conversation/"><span style="background-color: lime;"><b>So, how can you get your paper noticed and advance the scientific conversation? </b></span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: lime;"><b>One word: Tweet.</b></span><br />
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<i>From: Victoria Costello, March 30 2015, on PLOS Blogs, blogs.plos.org/plos</i><br />
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Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-13193743189649668072015-03-09T06:36:00.000-07:002015-03-09T06:47:28.287-07:00Current Database Trials for RU Humanities <br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher for scholarship, research and professional learning. Palgrave Macmillan publishes monographs, journals, reference works and professional titles, online and in print. With a focus on humanities and social sciences, Palgrave Macmillan offers authors and readers the very best in academic content whilst also supporting the community with innovative new formats and tools.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: lime;"><a href="http://0-www.palgrave-journals.com.wam.seals.ac.za/pal/jnlindex.html">Free Trial Access to Rhodes Users from 02 March to 31<sup>st</sup> March 2015.</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://0-www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk.wam.seals.ac.za/Apartheid">Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980</a></h2>
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<span style="color: cyan;">Apartheid South Africa makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980. The launch of apartheid policies by the National Party in 1948 heralded 40 years of legally entrenched white dominance over South African politics, society and business. Punitive restrictions placed on travel, education, work and political activism instigated the formation of organisations such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), saw support increase for the Communist Party and fueled the growth of international anti-apartheid organisations. These previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events give unprecedented access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. The files explore the relationship of the international community with South Africa and chart increasing civil unrest against a backdrop of waning colonialism in Africa and mounting world condemnation. This resource is in three sections: 1948-1966, 1967-1975 and 1976-1980.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://0-www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk.wam.seals.ac.za/Apartheid">Free Trial Access to Rhodes Users from 06 March 2015 to 01 April 2015</a></span>Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-69938916905792198912014-11-27T07:29:00.000-08:002014-11-27T07:29:20.271-08:00Five things we mean when we say digital humanities<h3>
<a href="http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/2014/11/24/libraries-as-problem-shapers-some-thoughts-sparked-by-brian-croxall/">Libraries as Problem Shapers: some thoughts sparked by Brian Croxall (five things that we mean when we say digital humanities)</a></h3>
Brian Mathews (Virginia Tech.) comments: It was great to learn about Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship but the real reason Brian Croxall was on campus was to talk about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_humanities">digital humanities</a>. We hosted him in the library and his talk was insightful and entertaining.<br />
<a href="http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/50919" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="code" class="size-medium wp-image-3647 alignleft" height="283" src="http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/files/2014/11/code-300x283.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black;" width="300" /></a> <br />
The main takeaway for me was his five things that we mean when we say <span style="background-color: lime;">digital humanities:</span><br />
<ol>
<li><span style="background-color: lime;">Humanistic examination of digital objects</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: lime;">Digital scholarly communication</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: lime;">Digital pedagogy</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: lime;">Creation of digital archives and primary source materials</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: lime;">Digital examination of Humanistic objects</span></li>
</ol>
From: The Ubiquitous Librarian, 24th November 2014Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-17295112961489697092014-11-09T23:35:00.001-08:002014-11-09T23:35:26.514-08:00Can universities survive the digital age?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<h3>
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20141030125107100">The fifth annual international IE University conference on “Reinventing Higher Education”</a> discussed Bologna, English as the <i>lingua franca</i> and engagement between business and universities. <span style="background-color: lime;">But perhaps it will be the ‘digital natives’ of the next generation who will be higher education’s greatest challenge...</span></span></h3>
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“I was not taught digital marketing in my degree because the change in the business model was so rapid that the university did not have time to adapt,” said Cristina Rojas, 23, an economics graduate. <br /><br /> Rojas added that in 2013 Facebook and Twitter were only known as social networks, they had not developed their marketing potential online and “professors did not even know that they existed”...</div>
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<b>Santiago Iñiguez, President of IE University, concluded: “The Millennial generation is creative, cosmopolitan, entrepreneurial, sociable, with a distinctive global awareness and commitment, and they demand more control over their own learning experience.</b><br />
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From: University World News, Paul Rigg, 31 Oct 2014, Issue no. 341Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-83520146559245325762014-10-30T00:52:00.000-07:002014-10-30T00:55:53.119-07:00How to transform the higher education sector in South Africa<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.uct.ac.za/dailynews/?id=8864"><span style="color: lime;">How to transform the higher education sector </span></a></h2>
The role of universities in fostering both their own transformation and the transformation of society at large came under intense scrutiny in a packed Baxter Concert Hall on 21 October 2014. Top university leaders debated issues of transformation in a discussion organised by UCT’s Faculty of Humanities and chaired by its dean, Professor Sakhela Buhlungu.<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><a href="http://www.uct.ac.za/dailynews/?id=8864#transformation_debate">Watch the video of the debate</a></span><br />
Sharing the panel with UCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price were Professor Jonathan Jansen, rector and vice-chancellor of the <a href="http://www.ufs.ac.za/" target="_blank">University of the Free State,</a> and Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, vice principal for research and innovation at the <a href="http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.html" target="_blank">University of South Africa</a>.<br />
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<i>From: UCT's Daily News, 21 October 2014, Story by Yusuf Omar, Image by Michael Hammond </i><br />
<br />Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-49256400778609555232014-09-15T07:02:00.000-07:002014-09-15T07:11:53.448-07:00Reports on Humanities in SA - relevancy & future actions 2014+?<ol>
<li><h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.dhet.gov.za/Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences/Report%20on%20the%20Charter%20for%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences.pdf">Report on the Charter for Humanities and Social Sciences 2011</a></span></h2>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Report commissioned by the Minister of Higher Education & Training for the charter for Humanities and Social Sciences June 2011</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b><i>Department Higher Education and Training</i>, Republic of South Africa </b></span></div>
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2. <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.assaf.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/2011-Humanity-final-proof-11-August-2011.pdf">Consensus Study on the State of Humanities in South Africa: status, prospects and strategies</a></span></h2>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: lime;"><b>Published by the <i>Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) </i> August 2011</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>ISBN- 978-0-9814159-3-2</b></span></div>
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<br />Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0Grahamstown, South Africa-33.305281685899452 26.541595458984375-33.411431685899451 26.380233958984373 -33.199131685899452 26.702956958984377tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-35136512871317138932014-09-12T06:31:00.000-07:002014-09-15T07:15:40.375-07:00Humanities Graduates valued/needed?<div id="main-article-info">
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/mar/19/humanities-universities-global-stem?CMP=twt_gu">Move over, Stem: why the world needs humanities graduates</a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: lime;">Global
problems can't be resolved without a humanities perspective, so
academics need to get out into the world and make the case for their
subject...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: lime;"><br /></span></div>
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So what's up with our cloistered historians and philosophers, our
literary critics, classicists and scholars of the fine, performing and
otherwise liberal arts? Clearly there's some gathering global anxiety
within the academy and it's mainly around the difficulty of getting
broader social recognition for the two convictions about humanities that
are motivating these discussions.<br />
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<b>Humanities graduates have unique skills</b></h2>
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<b>Humanities perspective is needed in all global challenges</b></h2>
<i>From: The Guardian's Higher Education Network, posted by Paul Smith 19 March 2014</i><br />
<i>Paul Smith is director of the British Council in the US. He spoke at
Oxford University as part of the activist humanities conference.</i><b> </b><br />
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Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0Grahamstown, South Africa-33.3 26.533332999999971-33.40615 26.371971499999969 -33.19385 26.694694499999972tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-55373459649194483022014-06-02T01:05:00.002-07:002014-09-15T07:19:19.234-07:00Academics Anonymous...<div id="main-article-info">
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<span style="background-color: lime;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/may/30/universities-interdisciplinary-research?CMP=twt_gu"><span style="background-color: white;">Academics Anonymous: break down barriers between disciplines </span></a></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: lime;"> & Three ways we are stifling research</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: lime;">Universities are outdated – big problems require thinkers who can transcend the traditional boundaries between subjects</span></div>
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Academics from different disciplines need to work together more. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian</div>
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The world is changing at an incredible rate. Pressing problems like <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="More from the Guardian on Climate change">climate change</a>
and the related social unrest are connected to an ever-growing
population and dwindling resources. It has become clear that these vast
problems cannot be answered by single academic disciplines, working
within archaic institutional settings and throttled by systemic
boundaries.<br />
<span style="color: lime;">Working across disciplines is the key to answering the
big questions, focusing on what is needed to solve problems, and
transcending the boundaries of conventional approaches and disciplines.
However, in academia we have put boundaries in place to stop this
happening, and the pace of change to adopt new strategies is glacial at
best.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: black;">From: The Guardian, Higher Education Network 30 May 2014</span></span>Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-46508457305017998202014-05-22T06:41:00.001-07:002014-05-22T07:13:53.416-07:00<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: lime;">Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme Report </span></h3>
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<a href="http://www.scaprogramme.org.za/">The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP),</a> </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
together with African Minds<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> </a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
and SARUA<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">,</a> (Southern African Regional Universities Association)</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
has just produced an important report</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
(authors: Henry Trotter, Catherine Kell, Michelle Willmers, Eve Gray & Thomas King)</div>
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entitled </div>
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<a href="http://www.scaprogramme.org.za/media_presentations/"><span style="color: red;"><b>"SEEKING IMPACT AND VISIBILITY : Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa"</b></span></a></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>From the executive summary: </b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>African scholarly research is relatively invisible for three primary reasons:</b><br />1. While research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is<br />falling in comparative terms (especially as other Southern countries such as China<br />ramp up research production), reducing its relative visibility.<br />2. Traditional metrics of visibility (especially the ISI/WoS Impact Factor) which<br />measure only formal scholar-to-scholar outputs (journal articles and books) fail to<br />make legible a vast amount of African scholarly production, thus underestimating<br />the amount of research activity on the continent.<br />3. Many African universities do not take a strategic approach to scholarly<br />communication, nor utilise appropriate information and communications<br />technologies (ICTs) and Web 2.0 technologies to broaden the reach of their<br />scholars’ work or curate it for future generations, thus inadvertently minimising<br />the impact and visibility of African research.</span></h4>
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<u><b>Recommendations: </b></u></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<u><b>To university administrations</b></u><br />
•Offer a reduction in teaching time to scholars who demonstrate ambitious research activity.<br />
•Establish digital platforms for sharing publication success by university scholars.<br />
•Develop policies mandating that all publicly funded research be made open access<br />
•Put all university-affiliated journals online and make them open access<br />
•Induce academic staff to create personal profiles on their departmental web pages<br />
•Establish or identify support service providers who can translate scholars’ research for government- and community-based audiences.<br />
•Develop a network of communication officers/content managers so that disparate dissemination activity can be pursued in a more cohesive and strategic manner.<br />
•Encourage scholars to share their research insights on Wikipedia.<br />
•Invest in training for library staff so that they can operate effectively in the new scholarly communication landscape.<br />
•Train and incentivise scholars to use Web 2.0 platforms</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<u> <b>To university scholars</b></u><br />
• Share responsibility with the administration for research visibility. Communicate research findings to the audiences that could best leverage them for developmental purposes.</div>
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Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-27883703548818673862014-01-30T23:58:00.000-08:002014-09-15T07:24:44.820-07:00Digital Humanities<h3>
<a href="http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb">How the Humanities Compute in the Classroom</a> </h3>
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<i>Computer-assisted
scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five
years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital
humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this
technology-inflected research "the next big thing." </i><br />
<i>Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to
work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection
of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the
undergraduate classroom, <a href="https://chroniclevitae.com/news/249-digital-humanists-if-you-want-tenure-do-double-the-work">whether they pay off</a> in tenure and promotion, and <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Born-Digital-Projects-Need/143799/">what it takes</a> to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.</i><br />
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- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf<br />
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<i>Computer-assisted
scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five
years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital
humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this
technology-inflected research "the next big thing." </i><br />
<i>Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to
work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection
of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the
undergraduate classroom, <a href="https://chroniclevitae.com/news/249-digital-humanists-if-you-want-tenure-do-double-the-work">whether they pay off</a> in tenure and promotion, and <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Born-Digital-Projects-Need/143799/">what it takes</a> to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.</i><br />
<hr />
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf</div>
</div>
<span style="color: #073763;"> Computer assisted research in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster...digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. <span style="background-color: lime;">Read more for how digital humanities play out in the classroom and for collection of articles. </span></span><br />
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From: Chronicle of Higher Education, Marc Parry, January 6 2014</div>
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Computer-assisted
scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five
years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital
humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this
technology-inflected research "the next big thing." - See more at:
http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<i>Computer-assisted
scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five
years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital
humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this
technology-inflected research "the next big thing." </i><br />
<i>Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to
work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection
of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now </i><br />
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.d</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<i>Computer-assisted
scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five
years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital
humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this
technology-inflected research "the next big thing." </i><br />
<i>Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to
work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection
of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now </i><br />
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf<br />
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<i>Computer-assisted
scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five
years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital
humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this
technology-inflected research "the next big thing." </i><br />
<i>Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to
work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection
of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now </i><br />
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.d</div>
</div>
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<i>Computer-assisted
scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five
years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital
humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this
technology-inflected research "the next big thing." </i><br />
<i>Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to
work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection
of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the
undergraduate classroom, <a href="https://chroniclevitae.com/news/249-digital-humanists-if-you-want-tenure-do-double-the-work">whether they pay off</a> in tenure and promotion, and <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Born-Digital-Projects-Need/143799/">what it takes</a> to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.</i><br />
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<i>Computer-assisted
scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five
years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital
humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this
technology-inflected research "the next big thing." </i><br />
<i>Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to
work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection
of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the
undergraduate classroom, <a href="https://chroniclevitae.com/news/249-digital-humanists-if-you-want-tenure-do-double-the-work">whether they pay off</a> in tenure and promotion, and <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Born-Digital-Projects-Need/143799/">what it takes</a> to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.</i><br />
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf<br />
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<i>Computer-assisted
scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five
years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital
humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this
technology-inflected research "the next big thing." </i><br />
<i>Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to
work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection
of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the
undergraduate classroom, <a href="https://chroniclevitae.com/news/249-digital-humanists-if-you-want-tenure-do-double-the-work">whether they pay off</a> in tenure and promotion, and <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Born-Digital-Projects-Need/143799/">what it takes</a> to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.</i><br />
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf</div>
</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<i>Computer-assisted
scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five
years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital
humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this
technology-inflected research "the next big thing." </i><br />
<i>Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to
work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection
of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the
undergraduate classroom, <a href="https://chroniclevitae.com/news/249-digital-humanists-if-you-want-tenure-do-double-the-work">whether they pay off</a> in tenure and promotion, and <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Born-Digital-Projects-Need/143799/">what it takes</a> to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.</i><br />
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf</div>
Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-54544145981214307062013-12-13T05:13:00.001-08:002013-12-13T05:18:13.740-08:00Maximizing The Impacts Of Your Research<h4 class="entry-title" style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/04/14/maximizing-the-impacts-of-your-research-a-handbook-for-social-scientists-now-available-to-download-as-a-pdf/">‘Maximizing The Impacts Of Your Research: A Handbook For Social Scientists’</a></h4>
<h4 class="entry-title" style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/04/14/maximizing-the-impacts-of-your-research-a-handbook-for-social-scientists-now-available-to-download-as-a-pdf/"> now available to download as a PDF</a></h4>
<div class="entry-title" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: lime;">In the past, there has been no one source of systematic advice on how to
maximize the academic impacts of your research in terms of citations
and other measures of influence. And almost no sources at all have
helped researchers to achieve greater visibility and impacts with
audiences outside the university. Instead researchers have had to rely
on informal knowledge and picking up random hints and tips here and
there from colleagues, and from their own personal experience.This Handbook remedies this key gap and opens the door to researchers
achieving a more professional and focused approach to their research
from the outset. </span></div>
<div class="entry-title" style="text-align: center;">
<i>from</i><b><i>: LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog 14th April 2011</i></b></div>
Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-16985333714940998562013-12-06T06:17:00.000-08:002013-12-06T06:29:51.357-08:00Crisis in the Humanities, 2011-2012 debates<br />
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<a href="http://mg.co.za/specialreport/crisis-in-humanities"><i>Special Report</i>
</a></h2>
<a href="http://mg.co.za/specialreport/crisis-in-humanities">
</a><h1>
<a href="http://mg.co.za/specialreport/crisis-in-humanities">Crisis in Humanities</a>
</h1>
<span style="background-color: lime;"><i>Whether South Africa's humanities and social sciences will survive a
university-centred and national crisis remains a controversial
question. </i></span><br />
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Collection of articles from the <i><a href="http://www.mg.co.za/">Mail & Guardian</a>
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</figcaption></figure>Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-17413538763621912962013-12-05T02:19:00.000-08:002013-12-06T06:18:01.944-08:00State of Humanities in South Africa, 2009-2010 debates<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.assaf.co.za/?page_id=1437"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A list of links to articles, reports, interviews etc on </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">the status and role of the Humanities in South Africa </span></a></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Includes the Mellon Report on <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i>Reforming the Humanities Ph.D.</i></span> & Keith Thomas's TLS article on: </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>What are Universities For?</i></span></span></h3>
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Content from the ASSAf website ( Academy of Science of South Africa)</div>
Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-77802987681824177472013-12-04T06:17:00.000-08:002013-12-04T06:24:03.771-08:00A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities<br />
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #20124d;"><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/">Available now: a guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities</a></span></h3>
How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have
any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are
3,000 to 8,000 words long, and where books contain 80,000 words? Can
anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters?<br />
<br />
We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing<b> new users</b> how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to <b>more experienced users</b> on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.<br />
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<i>from the LSEIpactBlog dated 29 September 2011 </i>Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549761281206032502.post-52186060232359691472013-12-03T05:39:00.000-08:002013-12-03T05:39:30.110-08:00The academic career path has been thoroughly destabilised...<a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/11/01/precarity-and-the-neoliberal-university/"><em> <span style="background-color: lime;">The academic career path has been thoroughly destabilised by the precarious practices of the neoliberal university.</span></em></a><br />
<a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/11/01/precarity-and-the-neoliberal-university/"><em><br /></em></a>
<em>It is an increasingly difficult time to begin an academic
career. The pressures of the REF, casualization and adjunctification of
teaching and the disappearance of research funding are enormous
obstacles academics face. </em><strong>Sydney Calkin</strong><em>
looks at how academics have in many ways become model neoliberal
subjects. How might we effectively challenge the growing acceptance of
the unpaid, underpaid, zero hours work within universities?</em>
A ‘job’ posting circulated on Twitter and Facebook in July 2013, provoking a mix of shock, anger, and hopelessness among academics, particularly young aspiring academics.<br />
<br />
Interesting commentary follows the article on LSEImpactBlog.Fiona Still-Drewetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13149917477947209193noreply@blogger.com0