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Achieving Academic Promotion by Academic promotion doesn't come easy: a successful application requires you to demonstrate continued growth in every area of your role as a researcher, educator and member of the academic community. Furthermore, the detail of the promotions process varies from one country to another and even from one institution to another. So where does an ambitious academic start? Achieving Academic Promotion demystifies the process by bringing together international perspectives - both personal accounts and reflections on the structures and processes of promotion in different contexts - to help you understand the steps you can take at any stage of your career to move up the ladder. Featuring compelling and encouraging personal stories of success, as well as practical tips and takeaways, this timely book is essential reading for the academic who wants to be promotion-ready.
Applied evaluative informetrics by This book presents an introduction to the field of applied evaluative informetrics, dealing with the use of bibliometric or informetric indicators in research assessment. It sketches the field's history, recent achievements, and its potential and limits. The book dedicates special attention to the application context of quantitative research assessment. It describes research assessment as an evaluation science, and distinguishes various assessment models, in which the domain of informetrics and the policy sphere are disentangled analytically. It illustrates how external, non-informetric factors influence indicator development, and how the policy context impacts the setup of an assessment process. It also clarifies common misunderstandings in the interpretation of some often used statistics.
The Digital Academic by Academic work, like many other professional occupations, has increasingly become digitised. This book brings together leading scholars who examine the impacts, possibilities, politics and drawbacks of working in the contemporary university, using digital technologies. Contributors take a critical perspective in identifying the implications of digitisation for the future of higher education, academic publishing protocols and platforms and academic employment conditions, the ways in which academics engage in their everyday work and as public scholars and relationships with students and other academics. The book includes accounts of using digital media and technologies as part of academic practice across teaching, research administration and scholarship endeavours, as well as theoretical perspectives. The contributors span the spectrum of early to established career academics and are based in education, research administration, sociology, digital humanities, media and communication.
Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences by Grants and fellowships are increasingly essential to an academic career, and competition over federal and foundation funding is fiercer than ever. Yet there has hitherto been little training available for this genre of writing. Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences demystifies the process of writing winning grant proposals in the humanities and social sciences. Offering practical guidance, step-by-step instructions, and examples of successful proposals, Walker and Unruh outline the best practices to crack the proposal writing code. They reveal the most common peeves of proposal reviewers, and offer advice on how to avoid frequent problem areas in conceptualizing and crafting a research proposal in the humanities and social sciences. Contributions from agency and foundation program officers offer the perspective from the other side of the proposal submission portal, and new research funding trends, including crowdfunding and public scholarship, are also covered. This book is essential reading for all those involved in funding applications. Graduate students, research administrators, early career faculty members, and tenured professors alike will gain new and effective strategies to write successful applications.
The impact of the social sciences: how academic and their research make a difference by Based on a three year research project studying the impact of academics on business, government and civil society sectors, this groundbreaking book undertakes the most thorough analysis yet of how academic research in the social sciences achieves public policy impacts, contributes to economic prosperity, and informs public understanding of policy issues.
Optimising Your Academic Career by Beginning a new career as an academic is a daunting task. Carol Mutchs latest book aims to demystify the process by providing new and intending academics with an insight in what to expect. The book is based around the real-life concerns and questions that were raised by the early career academics she worked with in her innovative Emerging Scholars Forum. Her advice is based on over 30 years in New Zealand's tertiary sector in a range of teaching and leadership positions. It is supplemented by words of wisdom from early career academics and their more experienced colleagues from a range of tertiary institutions and disciplines. While it is clearly grounded in the New Zealand context, it will resonate with new academics further afield - indeed, some of the peer contributors are from universities in Australia and the UK. The book answers many of the questions you would expect, such as, how do you secure an academic position, how do you find a mentor, how do you develop your teaching, and how do you prepare a research plan? The answers include many practical examples, tips, and questions to consider. The three main aspects of an academics job description - teaching, research and service are covered in depth and often in ways that challenge misconceptions. The book concludes with a chapter on managing the many conflicting demands of being an academic and then provides suggestions for setting up an Emerging Scholars Forum. Mutch reiterates that life as an academic has its challenges but it also has its advantages and responsibilities. She reminds her readers that as an academic you can use your position to make difference to those around you and to wider society. As one of the early career academics says in the book, Academic life is a privilege - enjoy it and value it.
Using Evidence by This book provides a timely and novel contribution to understanding and enhancing evidence use. It builds on and complements the popular and best-selling What Works?: Evidence-based policy and practice in public services (Davies, Nutley and Smith, Policy Press, 2000), by drawing together current knowledge about how research gets used and how this can be encouraged and improved. In particular, the authors explore various multidiscipliary frameworks for understanding the research use agenda; consider how research use and the impact of research can be assessed; summarise the empirical evidence from the education, health care, social care and criminal justice fields about how research is used and how this can be improved and draw out practical issues that need to be addressed if research is to have greater impact on public services. Using evidence is important reading for university and government researchers, research funding bodies, public service managers and professionals, and students of public policy and management. It will also prove an invaluable guide for anyone involved in the implementation of evidence-based policy and practice.Harzing, Anne-Wil. (2017, November 27). Making your case for impact if you have few citations [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://harzing.com/blog/2017/11/making-your-case-for-impact-if-you-have-few-citations
Harzing, Anne-Wil. (2016, July 20). From h-index to hla: The ins and outs of research metrics [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://harzing.com/blog/2016/07/from-hindex-to-hia-the-ins-and-outs-of-research-metrics
Swijghuisen Reigersberg, M.E. (2018, November 21). Metrics, Research Assessment and League Tables: An Australian perspective [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/metrics-research-assessment-and-league-tables-an-australian-perspective-guest-post-by-muriel-swijghuisen-reigersberg/
Bar-Ilan, J. (2014, June). Evaluating the individual researcher - adding an altmetric perspective [Blog post] . Retrieved from https://www.researchtrends.com/issue-37-june-2014/evaluating-the-individual-researcher/
Harzing, Anne-Wil. (2017, May 20). Citation analysis across disciplines: The impact of different data sources and citation metrics [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://harzing.com/publications/white-papers/citation-analysis-across-disciplines
Harzing, Anne-Wil. (2016, Feb 6). Reflections on norms for the h-index and related indices [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://harzing.com/publications/white-papers/reflections-on-norms-for-the-h-index-and-related-indices