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A whole culture approach to doctoral education
No full textThe cultures of the academy are visible as the behaviours, expectations, attitudes and norms observable within working practices, and which influence the community’s interpersonal connections. Culture enhancement initiatives have increased rapidly in recent years, underscored by reports documenting serious concerns for the mental health of the current academic workforce. Such culture initiatives have been characterised by movement away from rewarding individualistic and competitive behaviour, encouraging the advent of collective and collaborative spaces. This chapter takes a critical look at good practice in creating collective and collaborative cultures for postgraduate researchers and will use theories of the Hidden Curriculum of Doctoral Education and conceptualisation of academic collegiality, to underscore the developmental value of a ‘whole culture’ approach to doctoral study. Throughout, this chapter recognises that supportive research supervision is critical for the success and wellbeing of researchers and asks how the development and practice of this key relationship can be enhanced by taking a community approach to both student and supervisor development creating enabling structures that bring together supervisors to share experiences and ‘ways of being’
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Recent Judicial Decisions:Disclosure of Juror Deliberations; Provocation; Advance Indication of Sentence; Unlawful Act Manslaughter; Defence of Necessity; Shaken Baby Syndrome
No full textRecent Judicial Decisions:Admissibility of DNA Evidence; Intoxicated Consent; Racially Aggravated Offences; Reverse Burden of Proof; Causing or Allowing the Death of a Child; Kidnapping
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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