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Tag Archives: impact
action research with/against ‘impact’
This is a version of my editorial just published in Educational Action Research, a journal I co-edit with colleagues in the UK, USA, Australia and Austria. Governments in many parts of the world are increasingly concerned with demonstrating the results … Continue reading
Posted in action research, impact
Tagged action research, Educational Action Research, impact, Pat Thomson
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academics all write badly… another response to a familiar critique
I often get asked why I left Australia to come to the UK. Apart from the obvious answers – (1) a job, (2) well it wasn’t the weather, and (3) it was a late career adventure – the question is … Continue reading
Posted in academic blogging, academic writing, impact, media, public engagement
Tagged academic writing, impact, media, Nicholas Kristoff, Pat Thomson, public engagement, Tressie McC
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please – not a heroic impact narrative
Recently I’ve seen and read a lot of hero/heroine narratives. But no more than is usual in journal articles I’m sent to review and edit. They now seem to be popping up in research impact plans and claims about impact. … Continue reading
Posted in hero/heroine, impact, redemption narrative
Tagged heroic narrative, impact, Pat Thomson, redemption narrative
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just a letter from 100 academics – some thoughts on ‘impact’ and ‘public engagement’
Last week, a letter with the signatures of 100 education academics was sent to the British newspaper The Independent. It offered a very abbreviated set of concerns about the development of the English national curriculum. The concerns expressed were not … Continue reading
early career researchers and the high impact journal
I was recently on a shortlisting panel for the three year postdoctoral fellowships offered by my university. Each of the five faculties had produced their own priority list from which the panel was to choose a subset to be interviewed. … Continue reading
dissemination, public engagement and knowledge mobilisation
So I’ve spent a long time doing this piece of research. Now what? Is it just a matter of writing something? Or is it more than this? And are all publications the same? What more could I do? This blog … Continue reading
Posted in dissemination, knowledge mobilisation, public engagement, publishing
Tagged dissemination of research, impact
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