scholarly journals List of Books for Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Keyword(s):  
Academic Careers

Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers for books, films or other media.

Mentoring and Pursuit of Academic Careers in School Psychology

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joni D. Splett ◽  
Cheryl Offutt ◽  
Ann G. Tweet
Keyword(s):  
School Psychology ◽  
Academic Careers

The Dissertation Journey

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-186
Author(s):  
Laura Schaffer Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Dissertation Process ◽  
Stated Purpose

This book is practical, guided, and forthright on what is needed to get started with the dissertation process. Its format is simple to and easy to read as it is broken down into chapters with information in each chapter outlined on its own page. This simple and uncomplicated format is a pleasure to read and it will not overwhelm doctoral students who are looking to move into this process of their academic careers. I strongly believe that authors Roberts and Hyatt have successfully accomplished their stated purpose for this text.

Academic Career-Making in the Era of Globalizing Knowledge and a Globalized Knowledge Enterprise: Demands on Individuals and Constraints over Individuality

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-162
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social System ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Knowledge Enterprise

Academic career-making in the era of globalizing knowledge and a globalized knowledge enterprise is not only an individual undertaking but also a social process. It impacts individual academicians as they meet requirements, secure resources, find opportunities, follow procedures, and build structures to make their careers. It has consequences for society as it establishes institutions, opens markets, provides media, creates values, and enforces rules to connect individual academicians and their products to the larger social system. This paper explores academic careers, and career-making as knowledge and the knowledge enterprise become globally hegemonic. Specifically, it examines how academic career-making makes demands on individuals in the form of brainwashing, emotion rechanneling, life-simplifying, and social isolation. It also investigates how academic careers place constraints over individuality by way of socialization, massing, fashion, and lifestyle. Received 16th October2018; Revised 10th April 2019; Accepted 20th April 2019

Internationalization and Diversification of Academic Careers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorana Toma ◽  
Maria Villares-Varela
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
International Study ◽  
Career Progression ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Scientific Careers ◽  
Global Survey ◽  
Research Facilities ◽  
Depth Interviews

This chapter examines the major patterns and drivers of interlinked geographical and career mobilities of Indian-born researchers and scientists. Based on a global survey and in-depth interviews, this study shows that the mobility of Indian researchers is mainly driven by an intrinsic motivation to internationalize their scientific careers, but has also to do with the characteristics of the research environment in India. Moving abroad enables researchers to acquire expertise in a field of research that is not sufficiently developed back home, and provides exposure to research facilities and personnel deemed better and more qualified than those back home. In this respect, international study and work experience are often perceived as providing professional merits that are instrumental in career progression on return to India.

scholarly journals Internally Incentivized Interdisciplinarity: Organizational Restructuring of Research and Emerging Tensions

Minerva ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Salmela ◽  
Miles MacLeod ◽  
Johan Munck af Rosenschöld
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Organizational Restructuring ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Internal Funding

AbstractInterdisciplinarity is widely considered necessary to solving many contemporary problems, and new funding structures and instruments have been created to encourage interdisciplinary research at universities. In this article, we study a small technical university specializing in green technology which implemented a strategy aimed at promoting and developing interdisciplinary collaboration. It did so by reallocating its internal research funds for at least five years to “research platforms” that required researchers from at least two of the three schools within the university to participate. Using data from semi-structured interviews from researchers in three of these platforms, we identify specific tensions that the strategy has generated in this case: (1) in the allocation of platform resources, (2) in the division of labor and disciplinary relations, (3) in choices over scientific output and academic careers. We further show how the particular platform format exacerbates the identified tensions in our case. We suggest that certain features of the current platform policy incentivize shallow interdisciplinary interactions, highlighting potential limits on the value of attempting to push for interdisciplinarity through internal funding.

scholarly journals Books for Review

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-56
Keyword(s):  
Word Length ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Review Articles

Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. We currently have a number of books awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books on the list below, please contact the reviews editor David Orr ([email protected]). We welcome reviews of around 600 words for a single book, but we are also keen to include review articles comparing two or more works, for which the word length is negotiable. Please also be aware that we can request recent publications (within the last year) from publishers, so do feel free to let us know of any books that you would like to review within the field of applied anthropology, and we will do our best to get them for you. Also note that publishers routinely send pdf or e-copies of publications rather than hard copies.

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