LSE Impact Blog: Top Posts of 2022
LSE Impact BlogWant to know what the ten most read LSE Impact Blog posts were this year? We count down the ten most read blogposts published in 2022.
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Just how important is the problem of predatory publishing?
In this post from LSE Impact Blog, Simon Linacre urges less focus on predatory publishing & more on the real world negative impact caused by predatory journals
A tool for navigating your research career
New tool to help map your activities exposing where activity is clustered, supporting you to be strategic and selective in what you take on to support your career priorities and goals.
Academics should embrace Lo-Fi podcasting
We love podcasts, they have become an established part of university communications and public engagement activities – could they help you?
The case against Revise and Resubmit
Professor Christine Williams discusses the potential benefits and drawbacks of abolishing the dreaded revise and resubmit, over and over again.
5 Strategies for Hitting a Writing Deadline
To adapt the well-known saying: there are few constants in academia other than death and deadlines. Delia Lloyd presents five strategies for getting writing done when you really need to.
The Unintended Consequences of the pandemic on Non-COVID-19 Research Activities
This post examines which researchers have been most affected by this shift in research prioritise and how it has impacted different types of university
An audible university? The benefit of the Spoken Word
The emerging role of podcasts, audiobooks and text to speech technology in research should be taken seriously – shared from the LSE Impact Blog
Defending a PhD thesis – are you ready for the emotions?
Eva Lantsoght, discusses how both PhD students and supervisors can benefit from understanding emotions underlying a PhD defence
F**k Ups in Social Research: Learning from what goes ‘wrong’
What happens when research goes wrong? How do researchers manage, or fail to manage, & can we learn from ‘failures’? This blog explains
Can research ethics courses prevent publication misconduct?
What ethics training or publishing training have you received? This article shared from the LSE Impact blog discusses new mandatory training developed in India
5 Reasons PhD students should engage with social media
Ema Talam and Prof Jon Fairburn outline five ways in which social media, and in particular Twitter, can make all the difference to PhD research