January 2009 - Posts

22 January 2009
Barack begins...

How you start in a new job is important - particularly if you're moving to a different place and stepping up to a higher-level role. Most of us don't get the advantage of a transition team - but every one of us will need, at some stage, to spend time thinking about how we're going to step through the... Read More...

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15 January 2009
Move on up...

Maybe it's because I started the new working year with a sprained shoulder and a cancelled train service but I've been thinking a lot about mobility recently. The shoulder showed me how personally disabling a lack of mobility can be - how do you tie lace-up shoes when only one arm is working properly... Read More...

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12 January 2009
Research raises questions

Talking of the RAE, what about our very own discipline - Unit of Assessment no 37, Library and Information Management? The previous RAE, in 2001, identified a couple of promising signs in our field - greater priority being given to research, some increase in overall research activity - but also raised... Read More...

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11 January 2009
Brass in pockets

My academic career has had a distinctly downward trajectory if the Times Higher Education league table of excellence is to be believed. From undergraduate study in the Premiership with Oxford (4th) and postgraduate research in the Championship with Birmingham (26th) to a teaching post in the lower leagues... Read More...

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