A blog about PhD life, career decision-making, and information literacy.
Earlier this year, I compiled some of my notes on best practices in peer reviewing (in a handy format). After sharing these with colleagues, I thought it best to make them available more widely, so here they are! A peer review checklist Have you been invited to peer review an article? If so, then this … Continue reading A peer review checklist
The autumn/winter issue of the 2021 National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) Journal is here, and I am glad to announce that my supervisory team and I have contributed an article to it! The title of our contribution is "The role of information in career development". In it, we provide an overview of … Continue reading “The role of information in career development” now available on the Napier Repository
Earlier this month, I hosted my very own Skills Development Scotland (SDS) seminar. SDS seminars are recurring knowledge exchange events that bring PhD students on the ESRC/SDS collaborative studentship together with various stakeholders who are interested in their research. These include, but are not limited to PhD students from the same cohort, SDS sponsors, members … Continue reading Knowledge exchange and the role of SDS seminars
Yesterday was the last day of the ECIL 2021 conference, which took place between 20-23 September in a range of virtual locations such as Tallinn, Prague, Istanbul, Saint-Malo, and Dubrovnik. Coincidentally, these are all locations where the conference has taken place in-person before – it’s a nice touch by the conference organisers to name the … Continue reading ECIL2021: Information literacy in a post-truth era
Some time ago, my supervisors and I wrote a paper entitled "New information literacy horizons: Making the case for career information literacy" following the successful receipt of our corresponding abstract for the ECIL 2021 conference. I am pleased to announce that the full-text version of this paper has now been selected for inclusion in the … Continue reading New publication: “New information literacy horizons: Making the case for career information literacy”
Over the last two weeks, I managed to achieve quite a lot: I attended two Summer Schools – the SGSSS Summer School, hosted by the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science, and the European Doctoral Programme in Career Guidance and Counselling (ECADOC), hosted by the NICE Foundation – and I presented five times: once at … Continue reading It’s Summer School season!
This blog post is the second part of a series of three blog posts on the topic of literature searching and writing a literature review for a PhD. Some of the advice presented here might also be applicable to students doing research at postgraduate level or any researchers undertaking large-scale research projects. Blog post 1 … Continue reading Making sense of the literature as a PhD student, Part 2: Inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria, and everything in between
“Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening”! This was the common greeting at this year’s iConference, which spanned over several time zones and took place virtually between 17-31 March 2021. A wide range of research topics were covered at the iConference, such as informetrics, archival studies, cybersecurity, and e-government, to name a few. There was … Continue reading Highlights from the 2021 iConference
Dr David Brazier and I are pleased to announce that we are now taking registrations for a set of three participative design workshops designed to enhance the informal learning of early career researchers in the hidden university curriculum. These online workshops build on previous work completed by David that proposed new methods for eliciting, recording, … Continue reading What are your unique information needs? Learning to navigate the hidden curriculum as an early career researcher
Last week, Hazel Hall and I delivered a workshop through Edinburgh Napier University’s Research, Innovation & Enterprise (RIE) office entitled “Work essential or extra workload? The value of creating a personal professional web presence”. The first part of this session was delivered by Hazel, who is an experienced researcher, blogger, and all-around advocate of the … Continue reading Work essential or extra workload? The value of creating a personal professional web presence
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