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Ten ‘Rules’ for Being Creative in Producing Research
Tips
January 2, 2015

Ten ‘Rules’ for Being Creative in Producing Research

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How to Use Screencasting to Improve Students’ Research Methods
Teaching
November 18, 2014

How to Use Screencasting to Improve Students’ Research Methods

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How Do You Say, ‘Read Me?’ Or Choosing Keywords to Retrieve Information
Communication
October 21, 2014

How Do You Say, ‘Read Me?’ Or Choosing Keywords to Retrieve Information

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A Primer for the Public: 10 Tips for Interpreting Research
International Debate
October 8, 2014

A Primer for the Public: 10 Tips for Interpreting Research

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Leveling the Career Playing Field … with Audio

Leveling the Career Playing Field … with Audio

Viva Voce is a website platform that allows social science researchers to set up five minute podcasts about their research.
Gemma Sou argues podcasts are an ideal medium for early career researchers as social media tend to mirror the academic environment, with CV-like publication lists and stratified networks. By literally giving researchers a voice, findings can be brought to life and a more level playing field for researchers can be established.

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Viva Voce Podcasts: What You Do, Not What You’ve Done

Viva Voce Podcasts: What You Do, Not What You’ve Done

Make an impact! make an impact! Early career social scientists here that refrain all the time. Gemma Sou cast around for a way to give her colleagues a voice in that quest, and hit upon podcasts.

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Staying Up-to-Date on Your Articles’ Impact

Staying Up-to-Date on Your Articles’ Impact

This is the first of two “ultimate guides” on practical tips for measuring the impact of academic output. Tomorrow we will examine […]

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Tweeting Academics Weigh In on Social Media

Tweeting Academics Weigh In on Social Media

A new survey asks cyber-savvy educators and researchers directly about their use of social media.

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What is Peer Review? An Explainer

What is Peer Review? An Explainer

We’ve all heard the phrase “peer review” as giving credence to research and scholarly papers, but what does it actually mean? How […]

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Are You an Academic Hermit?

Are You an Academic Hermit?

Lack a personal website? No CV posted online? Is your work visible on digital listings? If you are answering no, Patrick Dunleavy offers some advice how to easily shed that monkish role — if you want to.

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Concrete Advice for Writing Informative Abstracts

Concrete Advice for Writing Informative Abstracts

Be substantive and communicate your key findings – simple counsel from Patrick Dunleavy. But how exactly do you that? Here’s how.

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Seven Strategies for Publishing Qualitative Research

Seven Strategies for Publishing Qualitative Research

In the April issue of Family Business Review, Trish Reay, an associate professor at the University of Alberta School of Business, offers […]

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