Note: The information in this post is relevant to those evaluating the scholarship of others (for hiring, promotion, funding, etc) as well as to those having their scholarship evaluated. It also applies to other kinds of leave in which you would not reasonably be expected to keep publishing including longer sick leaves, disability leave, and […]
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Do Conference Papers Count?
This is a question I get asked a lot. Whether it is for hiring, tenure, or a research grant, researchers seem unsure of the value of conference papers. It’s all about impact Conference presentations feel like they have more impact than other forms of dissemination. There are real people in the room listening. They ask […]
Read More »Congratulations on your SSHRC grant!
You got your SSHRC grant. Now comes the hard part. You can no longer hide your brilliant potential under the bushel of insufficient funds. You will not be judged on whether or not you achieved what you proposed. You will only be judged on whether you make a significant contribution to knowledge. With a budget number in hand, and a clearer sense of the research assistant support available, now is the time to make an actual project plan.
Read More »Grant support you might want to look into
A while ago I discovered Morgan Giddings, a US scientist who blogs about getting grants among other things. Morgan has an approach I like, and I think you might like it, too. She’s an active academic, with tenure and grants of her own, and she’s developed a course on grant writing. Her approach is very […]
Read More »Impact, Interdisicplinarity, and Publication Strategies
In May 2009 I did a talk in the Career Corner at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The nice people from University Affairs videoed it and have now posted the video, nicely edited into short chunks, on their website. I thought you might like to see me in action. This section is […]
Read More »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 my attention via the co-authored article “What is Originality in the Social Sciences and the […]
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