To paraphrase Adam Smith … “Academics seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in talk of money, or complaints about funding agencies”. My dad – who was not an academic… Read More »Gamboling down grant-making lane
My first ever academic publication was an article criticizing Julian Savulescu‘s ethical concept of ‘procreative beneficence‘ – see here for my article (or email me if you’re come up against a paywall). Savulesu originally published… Read More »A brief rant about procreative beneficence …
A number of things have recently led me to think about the roles of universities and academics, and whether these are changing and for the better or worse. Obviously being an academic myself, and therefore… Read More »Crisis (or crises) in the academy
Last week I spent a frustrating hour or two refereeing a paper for an academic journal – I say frustrating because the paper had a kernel of something really interesting buried inside a morass of… Read More »How to get published in academic journals
WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS The Changing Political Economy of Research and Innovation: Public Policy, Commercialization & Neoliberal Technoscience 9-10th December 2013 | York University, Toronto, Canada ‘Science’ is increasingly tasked with kick-starting the moribund economy,… Read More »Call for Papers: Changing political economy of research & innovation
I have a confession to make. A shameful confession at that. I check myself out on Google Scholar on an almost daily basis. Having got past the stage in my academic career where I’m worried… Read More »A shameful confession … about Google Scholar
When I think back to my PhD now – which you can read here if you have a sudden bout of insomnia – I sometimes cringe a little … well, maybe a lot depending on… Read More »Learning from my PhD mistakes (and there were many!)
A nice review by Sean Phelan of The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism published in 2013 Critical Discourse Studies 10(1), 117-119. Sean Phelan ends with the following … “Overall, this book is well worth a… Read More »REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism
I think I may have offended some British academics with a recent blog post … I thought it might be helpful to write about why I wrote what I did. Over the last year or… Read More »At the risk of annoying (British) people …
REPOSTED at The Professor Is In … (02 April 2013) I wanted to write a post for North Americans seeking jobs in the UK academic labour market. First, because there seem to be far more… Read More »For North Americans: the peculiar British interview process