Sat.Jan 11, 2025

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Authorship for post/PhDers – the problem of gift authorship

Patter by Pat Thomson

One of the most common questions I am asked, and that I hear being discussed in doctoral and ECR support groups, is whether to write with supervisors and former supervisors. Or most often, I read on social media about problems that come from writing with supervisors and former supervisors. Now, in some disciplines writing with a supervisor is not unusual.

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the unanticipated: reflecting & looking forward

Catherine Cronin

“you are neither here nor there” … along the Flaggy Shore Three years ago, in January 2022, I started a new chapter leaving formal, full-time employment in the higher education sector to work independently. In that same month, Laura Czerniewicz and I published a call for chapters for a new book, an idea we had been slow-cooking for about six months (that book, Higher Education for Good , was published in October 2023).