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Category Archives: publishing
PhD by publication or PhD and publication – part two
After my first post about the changing nature of the PhD and the move to PhD by publication I was contacted by a number of people who were doing the by-publication doctorate. They were enthusiastic about it. One group were … Continue reading
the PhD and publication/by publication – a very peculiar practice? part one
It is now increasingly common in parts of Europe for PhDs in the humanities and social sciences to be awarded on the basis of publication. The norm seems to be three, but sometimes four, papers in international peer reviewed journals. … Continue reading
Posted in English language, Europe, monograph, parity, PhD, PhD by publication, publishing, thesis
Tagged parity, Pat Thomson, PhD by publication, scholarly monograph, thesis
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when senior academics are interested in your work …
I was recently told a very disconcerting story by a supervisor about something that had just happened to one of the doctoral researchers she was working with. I’m repeating it here because it’s a cautionary tale. The moral of the … Continue reading
writing from the PhD thesis – the publishing plan
I’m assuming that if you’re reading this post you have a publishing agenda – that is a list of potential articles from the PhD arranged in priority order. I’m also assuming that this might include a book – but I’m … Continue reading
writing from the PhD thesis: letting go
I often meet post PhD people who are stuck. Even though they are now doctored, they are not over the Big Book. Some of them are stuck in thinking how they might get something, anything, out of the thesis. A … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, argument, Big Book, Dr, publication plan, publishing
Tagged Pat Thomson, post PhD, publication planning, publishing, writing from the PhD
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is writing a book chapter a waste of time?
A couple of weeks ago a colleague suggested that I might want to offer some advice on whether it was better to write a book, a journal article or a book chapter. Coincidentally, just this week @deevybee published a blog … Continue reading
Posted in academic book, chapter, citation, publishing, teaching
Tagged book chapters, citation indices, Pat Thomson
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you just got published? don’t tell me about it
Nottingham has the reputation of being a gritty kind of city. It’s got some big estates as well as two universities and it’s the mere existence of these estates that has earned the city a somewhat undeserved reputation as being … Continue reading
can you write about mess in your thesis and if so how? part two
Peter Matthews continues his post about writing about the messy bits of his research. In my previous post I reported the “positive story” of my fieldwork – reflecting on that feeling of “connection” with my research participants in the narrative … Continue reading
why bother blogging?
Alice Bell, who blogs as through the looking glass, is currently doing some research on academic blogging She’s focusing particularly on people who blog about education. This post is a response to her questions. I won’t repeat the questions here … Continue reading
planning and managing multiple writing tasks
Henry Miller’s first writing commandment was “Work on one thing at a time until finished”. I find this almost impossible to do. It’s so impossible that much of the time I think that it’s not a sensible rule – well … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, Henry Miller, publication plan, publishing
Tagged blog, Henry Miller, Pat Thomson, publication planning
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