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The Australian Traveller Education Research Team: one strategy for organising academic research and publishing
Get PDFWe seek in this paper to reflect briefly on one example of the informal collaborations in which we are involved directly:
the Australian Traveller education research team.
Our research team and all the others like it encapsulate the seemingly increasingly threatened possibilities and safeguards for achieving research and publishing outcomes in contemporary universities. If those outcomes are to be productive, sustainable and hopefully beneficial for the multiple stakeholders with their convergent and competing interests identified above – particularly the
research participants – strategies of this kind would appear to be among our best hopes for bringing such outcomes about
NIR observations of dEs in the Virgo cluster: a structural continuity with giant ellipticals
No full textJuggling research with teaching: building capacity in a university research team
No full textThis chapter utilizes the methodology of narrative inquiry to describe the strategies used to form a research team in a Faculty of Education at an Australian regional university. Although there has been considerable research undertaken on academic life in the university sector (for example, Barlow & Antoniou, 2007; Malcom & Zukas, 2009), little attention has been given to the challenges faced by active early career researchers, who undertake the responsibility of leading a research team. This chapter will examine the formation of a research team to enhance research productivity. The account is from the joint perspective of the team leader (an early career researcher who was newly appointed to the university and as such was initially unaware of the politics and interpersonal connections which would inevitably shape the team's dynamics), and one of the members of the team.
The chapter will discuss the types of strategies which were implemented to increase research productivity in the team, describe how intrinsic and extrinsic factors affected the team, and consider the complexities of collaboration along with some of the concerns for active early career researchers, who are required to mentor other researchers. A number of issues will be considered, including academic identity, the complexities of involvement in a collaborative group, the pressure that universities and ultimately academics are facing in relation to raising research productivity, and the types of institutional support that can enhance or hinder such endeavors
Constructing capacity through knowledge management practice: a research team case study
No full textThis chapter provides one perspective on how a research team constructs capacity through knowledge management practices, and supports the observation that individual differences in practice do exist. This research suggests that a diversity of knowledge management practices could benefit the construction of capacity in individuals, teams and organisations.
A synthesis of the literature is used to develop the CISUS knowledge management architecture (Matthews, 2010) to account for the Create, Improve, Store, Use and Share processes that comprise knowledge management practice. This CISUS knowledge management architecture provides a conceptual and theoretical foundation to inform a case study research project into one research team’s knowledge management practices, and to explore how this research team constructs capacity in knowledge management. An outline of the case study research methodology is provided, followed by an overview of preliminary results with reference to the CISUS architecture.
Analysis of the case study research results reveals that each member of the research team employs slightly different CISUS knowledge management practices, yet all of the approaches were effective for both the individual and the team. The conclusion drawn from this is that knowledge management practice is an individual, personal capacity, and that what works for one individual may be counter-productive for another. It is suggested that further research be undertaken to understand influences on this practice diversity, including researching the influence that individual personality preferences may have on knowledge management practice
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Digital Daze
No full textDigital Daze is a zine for reflecting on the histories we have with the technologies we reached for to make it through the semester during the COVID-19 pandemic. In it, you'll find narrative prose, poetry, and visual art about experiences of navigating the online world and the impacts that this virtual space can have on our psyche and our bodies. These experiences and their impacts might have been harmful or healing - or both. The genesis for this zine emerged from a 2021 study conducted at Douglas College by the iMPACTS research team that sought to understand the social impacts of COVID-19 on students. Students shared a lot about their experiences with online learning, including: harassment, fear of being recorded/surveilled, finding confidence and control, boredom, and more. The rapid shift was
rapid - not a lot of time to consider what or how we feel, and yet, we felt it nonetheless. Even if students today are part of a generation that grew up with THE INTERNET, we are still in unfamiliar terrain. The study is over, but we wanted to explore more, so, we thought, why not a zine
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
A year in review from the WMF Research teamː Tying our work to the research community - Wikimedia Research Showcase - December 2022
No full textSlides from the December 2022 Wikimedia Research showcase by the Wikimedia Research Team presenting "A year in review from the WMF Research teamː Tying our work to the research community".</p
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