French research: Academics between millstones

Do Academics Doubt Their Own Research?

When do experts doubt or question their own previously published research and why? An online survey was designed and distributed across academic staff and postgraduate research students at different universities in Great Britain. Respondents (n = 202 244) identified the likelihoods of six different (quasi) hypothetical occurrences causing them to doubt or question work they have published in pe...

French research split

Life scientists are rapidly waking up to the threat to their future in the face of France's announcement of a break-up of the CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France's major research organisation — amid a raft of other concerns. The winter of 2003–04 was one of discontent for French scientists, who demonstrated in masses against government policies that they felt were forcin...

French public research--saved?

Women academics and research productivity: an international comparison

ISSN: 0954-0253 (Print) 1360-0516 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cgee20 Women academics and research productivity: an international comparison Sarah Jane Aiston & Jisun Jung To cite this article: Sarah Jane Aiston & Jisun Jung (2015) Women academics and research productivity: an international comparison, Gender and Education, 27:3, 205-220, DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2015....

Peer production for collaboration between academics and practitioners

The purpose of this article is to suggest commons-based peer-production as a form of work that can help bridge the gap between research and practice in LIS. The research design is based on two in-depth and longitudinal qualitative case studies of collaborative projects involving LIS academics and practitioners in Italy. Analysis of interviews and texts was conducted to study the interplay betwe...