OpenCon2014 in Washington DC, November 2014. Early Career Researchers and Open Access Advocacy

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Matt Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Experience Levels ◽  
The Right ◽  
Academic Resources

Purpose – This paper aims to give an overview of OpenCon 2014, organized by the Right to Research Coalition, SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and an organizing committee of students and early career researchers from around the world that took place between the 14th and 17th of November 2014 in Washington DC. Design/methodology/approach – A narrative approach was used to describe events. Findings – OpenCon 2014 is an exciting new conference that targets early career librarians and researchers who are involved with and/or interested in aspects of the open-access movement. It is attempting to galvanize the upcoming generation of scholars to demand more of traditional publishing models by bringing together a selective group that spans diverse interests and experience levels. Originality/value – This report outlines the author's takeaways and opinions concerning the events of the conference, as well as identifies some of the themes and issues that were relevant to librarians in research institutions.

scholarly journals A critical reflection on the development of the Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC)

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Elgin Maclean Milton ◽  
Susy Ridout ◽  
Marianthi Kourti ◽  
Gillian Loomes ◽  
Nicola Martin
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Autism Research ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Participatory Research Methods ◽  
Research Collective

Purpose The Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC) was initially set up with the purpose of bringing autistic people, including scholars and activists (but not exclusively), together with early career researchers and practitioners who work with autistic people, with the aim being to build a community where those who wished to see more significant involvement of autistic people in autism research could share knowledge and expertise. This paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach This paper explores the development of the PARC network, reflecting upon its activities and ethos within current higher education practices and structures. Findings In supporting autistic individuals in their attempts to establish themselves within academic systems that may not always be considerate or accommodating, the existence of PARC creates a structure with which autistic people can influence social change. PARC serves as a network of support, strengthening the presence of autistic scholars in academia. It also provides a structure through which autistic people are able to demonstrate helpful practices with which to engage more broadly. Originality/value The PARC network is the first autistic-led venture of its kind in the UK to have a sustained impact. PARC is growing to become an important element in the field of autism studies both by supporting emerging autistic academics and by promoting ethical and participatory research methods and practices.

scholarly journals 100 research rules of the game

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 691-706
Author(s):  
Niamh M. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Purpose There are several basic, and at times minor, pedantic principles required to successfully publish in good-quality international peer-reviewed journals. These are what the author calls the “rules of the game”. Many are so basic, so taken-for-granted, tacit knowledge, that at times supervisors do not tell their students about them. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The author has assembled 100 research rules of the game from her work over many years with doctoral students and early career researchers. Each rule is accompanied by short advice. Additional citations are included directing readers to further resources on the 100 research rules of the game. Findings The paper documents 100 research rules of the game. Research limitations/implications There are many other rules of the game not included in the author’s list of 100 research rules of the game. Originality/value This paper is a one-stop-shop brief introduction to the author’s 100 research rules of the game.

scholarly journals Women in the boardroom and their impact on default risk: a pitch

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Searat Ali
Keyword(s):  
Default Risk ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Core ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
And Training

Purpose The purpose of this pitch research letter (PRL) is to apply the pitching template developed by Faff (2015) to an academic project on boardroom gender diversity and default risk. Design/methodology/approach The pitching template helps the pitcher to identify the core elements that form the framework of the research project. The PRL encloses a brief background about the pitcher and pitch, followed by a brief commentary on the pitch and personal reflections of the pitcher on the pitch exercise itself. Findings One of the best aspects of the pitching template is that it forced the researchers to think each item over and over, enabling a synthesis of scattered ideas in a systematic way. Hence, it is strongly recommend learning and applying the pitching template as a tool to refine embryonic research ideas and to track the progress on the research projects. Originality/value This PRL is novel as it highlights the worth of performing the pitching exercise (i.e. quality publication), potential adoptability challenge and solutions (i.e. unfamiliarity and training), systematic process of learning the pitching template and application of the “rule of three” in pitching research. Such reflections are believed to be useful for early career researchers (ECRs).

scholarly journals “Being on both sides: covert ethnography and partisanship with bouncers in the night‐time economy”

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Calvey
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Time Consumption ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Situated Ethics ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThis study aims to critically expose and explore “taking sides” in the context of a covert ethnography of bouncers in the night-time economy of Manchester, UK.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology adopted is covert ethnography. The author reflects on the application and use of situated deception within an embedded and insider ethnography of bouncers, alongside other relevant covert ethnographies. Fieldwork vignettes are drawn upon to articulate the management of situated ethics and moral dilemmas.FindingsThe findings argue that bouncers are a deeply maligned occupational group, who perform a valuable regulatory role in the night-time economy. Moreover, a covert role ethnographic presents an interesting liminal stance of being on both sides, rather than a reductionist choosing of a single sides. Theoretically, phenomenological bracketing and ethnomethodological indifference are used to justify the position taken in the paper.Research limitations/implicationsCovert research has limitations around fieldwork time consumption, instigation tactics and “going native” distortion, alongside common fears of ethical belligerence and cavalier morals.Practical implicationsThe lessons learnt, particularly for early career researchers, are about pursuing creative ethnographic methods.Social implicationsOccupationally, bouncers should be less demonized and more accessible to more women. This rather hyper-masculine domain should be disrupted and democratized.Originality/valueThe field is relatively niche, with a purist covert ethnographic approach being an innovative way to unpack it.

Tax avoidance and firm risk in China: a pitch

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqiang Cao ◽  
Zhuoan Feng ◽  
Meiting Lu ◽  
Yaowen Shan
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Firm Risk ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Key Aspects

Purpose This paper aims to provide a critical discussion of the application of the research pitching template developed by Professor Robert Faff to a research topic of tax avoidance and firm risk. This letter provides a brief commentary on using the pitching template and discusses personal reflections on the pitching process. Design/methodology/approach This pitching research letter applies Faff’s pitching template and provides a critical commentary of the pitching process. Findings The team found that Faff’s pitching template is a valuable tool for conceiving research ideas. It helped the authors to identify, develop and articulate key aspects of the project. Further, they believe that completing the template was a beneficial and rewarding exercise, especially for early-career researchers. Originality/value This pitching research letter is tied to the team’s research idea that was pitched at the 2020 AFAANZ “Shark Tank” event. It provides original commentary on the use of Faff’s pitching template. It is not meant to retrofit published papers.

The reflective research diary: a tool for more ethical and engaged disaster research

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anuszka Mosurska
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Disaster Studies ◽  
British Colonial

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to highlight how keeping a reflective research journal can help disaster researchers to work in a more ethical and engaged way.Design/methodology/approachThe author analyses the reflective research diary to illustrate how keeping it has helped the author, a white, non-Indigenous researcher, navigate British academia whilst trying to plan a collaborative project with Indigenous peoples during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.FindingsThe author draws out some of the ways that academic institutions can undermine ethical research practice through opaque structures and by incentivising pressuring early-career researchers (ECRs) to conduct fieldwork in dangerous times. The author demonstrates ways the rpeers and author have tried to push against these structures, noting that this is not always possible and that their efforts are always limited without institutional support or change.Originality/valueMany ECRs and PhD students have written reflective accounts about the ethical challenges they have faced during fieldwork. In this article, the author adds to this by building on literature in disaster studies and positing how ethical and engaged research can be conducted within British (colonial) institutions.

What does change look like?

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-40
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Mentoring plays a key role in supporting early-career researchers, especially those from underrepresented groups. However, many mentors have not received formal training. This study looks at one training programme and evaluates whether the participants reported any change in awareness of behavior, and what this change looks like in practice. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Learning to review submissions to peer reviewed journals: how do they do it?

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Paltridge
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Information Transmission ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Peer Reviews ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe aim of this study is to examine how reviewers for academic journals learn to carry out the task of peer review and the issues they face in doing this.Design/methodology/approachA total of 45 reviewers completed a questionnaire which asked about their experience in doing peer reviews, how they had learnt to do them, and the issues they faced in doing these reviews. Follow up emails were also sent to reviewers in order to seek further elaboration on the answers they had provided in the questionnaire.FindingsOver half of the reviewers had learnt to do reviews by reading reviews of their own submissions to peer‐reviewed journals. Others had learnt to write reviews by just doing them; that is, by practice. The most challenging aspect for the reviewers was writing reviewers' reports that were critical but still constructive. There was no consensus on the most straightforward aspects of writing peer reviews.Practical implicationsThe study has implications for reviewer development, proposing an experiential, “learning by doing” approach to the training of reviewers rather than a didactic, information transmission style one.Social implicationsThe study has implications for reviewer development, proposing an experiential, “learning by doing” approach to the training of reviewers rather than a didactic, information transmission style one.Originality/valueThe study provides insights into how reviewers learn to write peer reviews and the challenges they face in doing this. The paper also suggests strategies for improving reviewer development which can have benefits, especially for early career researchers.

Revitalising Waqf (endowment) lands for agribusiness: potentials of the anchor company models

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norfaridah Ali Azizan ◽  
Amirul Afif Muhamat ◽  
Sharifah Faigah Syed Alwi ◽  
Husniyati Ali ◽  
Amalia Qistina Casteneda Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Household Income ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Living Condition ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The Right

PurposeWaqf (endowment) lands constitute as among the highest types of waqf (endowment) properties in Malaysia; yet it is still unable to reach its maximum potential due to various challenges such as capital, location, legal and administrative issues. Therefore, this study intends to explore these issues by focussing on the two states in Malaysia (Selangor and Perak) that have fertile lands but different management authorities.Design/methodology/approachThere were series of interviews that had been conducted with ten (10) key informants who are experts and practitioners in the areas of Shariah (Islamic law), farming, agribusiness, land management and waqf.FindingsFindings exhibit that constraints and challenges that had been highlighted in the previous literature still exist (although some improvements had been made), but there is emerging theme that the study intends to highlight which is on the needs to secure market for the agribusiness produce and the potential role of anchor company in the agribusiness. It is pertinent that for agribusiness to thrive, selecting the right anchor company that has the capacity to address the challenges is necessary. This study posits two anchor company models (Waqf Trustee-Anchor Company and Waqf Trustee-Anchor Company-Community Farmers) that can be applied for agribusiness on the waqf lands.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is based on the Malaysia's context influenced by specific country's features. Nevertheless, such findings can still be used as reference or benchmark by other endowment trustees in other countries especially for the Muslim countries as well as the non-Muslim countries that have significant Muslim populations.Social implicationsThe suggested models have potentials to improve the living condition of the B40 (below 40% household income) in Malaysia because the models encourage their participation in the agribusiness activities.Originality/valueThis study focusses on the agribusiness, which is rarely being given attention in previous literature in the context of endowment lands. Therefore, this article bridges the literature gap and at the same time attempts to provide suggestion to address the pertinent issue – the underutilised endowment lands.

In quest of goldilocks ranges in searching for information on the web

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Matysek ◽  
Jacek Tomaszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Information Search ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Search Task ◽  
Web Searching ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Right ◽  
User Experiment ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe quest to discover optimal conditions or amounts has been carried out in many scientific disciplines and practical fields. In astrophysics, biology, medicine, psychology and education, the quest has resulted in finding the right amount of something, a desirable middle between extremes, a balance between conditions or the optimal state of a system. The results are referred to as the Goldilocks principle, which is based on the idea of being “just right”. The aim of our study was to find out if there are any measures in information search that could be identified as Goldilocks ranges.Design/methodology/approachWe conducted a user experiment in which 68 participants carried out a time-unlimited, topical search task involving finding relevant websites on the basis of which the participants were supposed to prepare a presentation on a given topic. We examined aspects of their search behavior.FindingsWe found that information search Goldilocks ranges can be identified for a length of a search session, number of relevant results, number of queries submitted and number of search engine results pages (SERPs) visited. This preliminary study has resulted in indicating the following dominant ranges: Number of relevant documents found: 5–8; Time spent searching: 21–35 min; Number of queries submitted: 3–7; Number of SERPs viewed: 1–3.Originality/valueTill now, no one has studied Goldilocks ranges in information retrieval. The Goldilocks ranges have some practical implications for improving the effectiveness of web searching.

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