How to be an academic superhero: establishing and sustaining a successful career in the social sciences, arts and humanities

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 1072-1074
Author(s):  
Lilia Mantai
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Successful Career ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Social

A sketch of the education landscape in biomimetic and biohybrid systems

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Mura ◽  
Tony J. Prescott
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
Discipline Programs

The Living Machines approach, which can be seen as an exemplar methodology for a wider initiative towards “convergent science,” implies and requires a transdisciplinary understanding that bridges from between science and engineering and to the social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition, it emphasizes a mix of basic and applied approaches whilst also requiring an awareness of the societal context in which modern research and innovation activities are conducted. This chapter explores the education landscape for postgraduate programs related to the concept of Living Machines, highlighting some challenges that should be addressed and providing suggestions for future course development and policy making. The chapter also reviews some of the within-discipline and across-discipline programs that currently exist, particularly within Europe and the US, and outlines an exemplar degree program that could provide the multi-faceted training needed to pursue research and innovation in Living Machines.

scholarly journals Realizing the transformative potential of conservation through the social sciences, arts and humanities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Bennett ◽  
Robin Roth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conservation Actions

Conservation actions most often occur in peopled seascapes and landscapes. As a result, conservation decisions cannot rely solely on evidence from the natural sciences, but must also be guided by the social sciences, the arts and the humanities. However, we are concerned that too much of the current attention is on research that serves an instrumental purpose, by which we mean that the social sciences are used to justify and promote status quo conservation practices. The reasons for engaging the social sciences, as well as the arts and the humanities, go well beyond making conservation more effective. In this editorial, we briefly reflect on how expanding the types of social science research and the contributions of the arts and the humanities can help to achieve the transformative potential of conservation.

scholarly journals Increasing the volume of Gold Open Access journals in SSHA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Halse ◽  
Lena Cecilie Linge
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reference Index ◽  
Gold Open Access

Currently, there is an apparent lack of Gold Open Access journals in Social Science, Humanities and Arts (SSHA), as showcased by the open letter the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) sent to the SSHA communities 16 May 2019. DOAJ asserts in the letter that they agree 100% that DOAJ’s coverage of SSHA journals is insufficient. The implications of the lack of available outlets for research articles by SSHA grantholders in the early years of Plan S implementation may include disadvantages for researchers in the fields. A mandatory criterion for Plan S compliant OA journals is that they must be registered in the DOAJ. One consequence of the lack of coverage is when SSHA scholars seek funding from any of the research agencies or funders that are part of cOAlition S, as scholars will encounter difficulties in finding relevant quality Gold OA journals in which they can publish their research. This could impair SSHA scholars’ chances of receiving grants. Because of the ongoing and accelerated changes to the scholarly publication landscape today, there is a need to support SSHA communities with identifying quality journals which qualifies as Gold OA. To achieve ‘true’ Gold OA status a journal needs to be indexed in DOAJ, as Gold OA journals are in practice defined by their inclusion in this directory. The European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) provides a curated register of peer reviewed journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities. Today ERIH PLUS includes 7,473 scientific journals, and 2,220 of the journals are also listed by DOAJ. Furthermore, ERIH PLUS covers 1,469,204 scholarly Gold OA publications, according to data from Dimensions. However, less than half of these, 712,135 publications, are today indexed in DOAJ. Dimensions (free version) classifies Gold OA publications in the following way: “Gold – refers to articles in fully accessible open access journals that are available immediately upon publication without a license”. In this project we seek to identify DOAJ inclusion candidates from the group of journals that have published the 757,069 Gold OA publications that are not listed in DOAJ, according to Dimensions data. We will work with editors/editorial staff of journals that we identify as having the potential to be indexed by DOAJ. The goal is to increase the volume of Gold OA journals in SSHA. We will contact, present arguments and provide support to journal editors in order to convince them to apply for inclusion in DOAJ. In the poster, we will outline and describe some of the key tasks for the project in order to reach our goal. The project that we will briefly outline will center on: Describing incentives for obtaining ‘true’ Gold OA status for SSHA journals Identifying journals in ERIH PLUS for possible DOAJ inclusion Efforts to flip SSHA journals to ‘true’ Gold OA

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Whitehead ◽  
Angela Woods
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

The medical humanities, we claim, names a series of intersections, exchanges and entanglements between the biomedical sciences,1 the arts and humanities, and the social sciences. The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities introduces the ideas, individuals and scholarly approaches that are currently shaping the field. The medical humanities is an area of inquiry that is highly interdisciplinary, rapidly expanding and increasingly globalised. As this Introduction and the chapters that follow demonstrate, ...

scholarly journals Preface

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milla Tiainen ◽  
Katve-Kaisa Kontturi ◽  
Ilona Hongisto
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Special Section ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Analytical Approaches

This preface to the special section Movement, Aesthetics, Ontology: Generating New Materialisms in Arts and Humanities introduces the articles and provides the context for their inclusion. It shows how across the social sciences and humanities, new materialism and neomaterialism are increasingly being used as labels for analytical approaches that seek to reclaim the indispensable and transforming involvement of materialities in everything from political economy to everyday life and the constitution of gender, race and sexuality.

scholarly journals Pour une archéologie des usages savants du littéraire*: remarques sur les présupposés d’un literary turn

Çédille ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Anne-Gaëlle Weber ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Many scholars in the social sciences, arts and humanities now exhibit their works by using literary forms, ranging from essays to novels. The history of the uses that scho-lars have given to literature, as disciplines have developed in the 18th and 19th centuries, allows us to assess the consequences that nowadays they have on different forms of sciences and literature.

A Cross-disciplinary Investigation of Textual Metadiscourse Markers in Academic Writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Ebtisam Saleh Aluthman
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Target Readership ◽  
Knowledge Communication

This paper is a cross-disciplinary investigation of textual metadiscourse markers (TMDMs) in the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus. To this end, corpus analysis tools are utilized to investigate the density of each category of TMDMs and the distribution of these categories across BAWE academic divisions. The premise under the investigation in this study is that metadiscourse is a social interaction that facilitates knowledge communication between writers and their targeted readers. Within the framework of Hyland' s (2000, 2005) claim of disciplinary discourse, this study shows a correlational relation between the use and frequency of different TMDMs across academic disciplines. The quantitative results indicate that the use of transitions outnumbered all other TMDMs in the four BAWE academic divisions, accounting for almost 76.76% of the total occurrences of TMDMs. The results also indicate a greater tendency to use endophoric markers in the physical sciences whereas the social sciences and arts and humanities exhibit larger quantities of evidentials and code glosses. The results are interpreted in terms of the epistemological nature of the academic divisions as well as the target readership.

A Cross-disciplinary Investigation of Textual Metadiscourse Markers in Academic Writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Ebtisam Saleh Aluthman
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Target Readership ◽  
Knowledge Communication

This paper is a cross-disciplinary investigation of textual metadiscourse markers (TMDMs) in the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus. To this end, corpus analysis tools are utilized to investigate the density of each category of TMDMs and the distribution of these categories across BAWE academic divisions. The premise under the investigation in this study is that metadiscourse is a social interaction that facilitates knowledge communication between writers and their targeted readers. Within the framework of Hyland' s (2000, 2005) claim of disciplinary discourse, this study shows a correlational relation between the use and frequency of different TMDMs across academic disciplines. The quantitative results indicate that the use of transitions outnumbered all other TMDMs in the four BAWE academic divisions, accounting for almost 76.76% of the total occurrences of TMDMs. The results also indicate a greater tendency to use endophoric markers in the physical sciences whereas the social sciences and arts and humanities exhibit larger quantities of evidentials and code glosses. The results are interpreted in terms of the epistemological nature of the academic divisions as well as the target readership.

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