Im saying to people we provide bland research philosophy statements, in the large part.
Your philosophical position is most obvious in how you produce, understand and treat data. One of the less obviously places it comes across is usually in a bland and hackneyed statement of 'Philosophical Position'. Research philosophy is practical and pragmatic more than it is explicable in prose.
Its honest, that all the really matters to me.
What a lovely thing to say, thanks. Not only do I see them show up where you suggest, they show up in my own work! I make that point somewhere in something ive writen on the topic
Ive been teaching in HE since 2008. Every year at least one ernest undergraduate has told me 'there's no research on [insert topic]'. And, of course, every time they have been dead wrong. I do love a wee academic truism.
Is gender equality in brain damage progress for women and sport???
It's a simple question to ask, and the answer is quite clear and logical, but no one seems willing to take the necessary next steps. Details here 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It's a simple question to ask, and the answer is quite clear and logical, but no one seems willing to take the necessary next steps. Details here 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Is gender equality in brain damage ‘progress’ for women and sport? - Jack Hardwicke, Reem Al-Hashmi, Debra Forbes, Carrie Paechter, Molly Pocock, Katie Taylor, Dee Yeagers, Christopher R Matthews, 202...
This commentary sits within a context of growing cultural concern over brain damage that occurs in many of the Western world's most popular, profitable and...
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Reposted by: Christopher R. Matthews, Steve Keen, Alan Sked
Im a lucky/privileged one in that regard so I will not comment
Academia is... spending all Sunday checking damn hyperlinks on ya CV
a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is making a funny face and smiling .
ALT: a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is making a funny face and smiling .
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Absolutely wholesome interactions between people on what ever level are great to see.
Ive started referring to myself as a social scientist. Largely because I use social theory and philosophy from across disciplines to frame the science and scholarship I do and the books i write. It feels cogent and useful to me, but if can certainly be a slippy and abused framing of what some do.
DM me if youd like to read the full chapter, cheers 🍻
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What to do when local leaders are merely followers? What to do when institutional definitions of success are insipid & amoral? You establish your own vision, a morally defined & defendable path, & measures of success that point to something meaningful. More here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a ‘single-minded’ social science that matters - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Social science is not as it should be – I think we have lost contact with what matters. Many scholars have made similar laments and directed their attention at disciplines in an attempt to mark out a ...
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And in relation to the second half of the original post, if you want a longform read you could try the book in my bio, specifically Part 2. Do drop me a message if youd like to discuss further. Cheers 🍻
Here's a resent one (not from me) about reflexivity - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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He'll tell us he's doing his best/duty etc. And ill tell him he is a central part of the biggest problem humanity faces.
I get that people who think in such uncritical ways will claim to being 'pragmatic'. But they are complicity in making & maintaining education as business (capitalist realism writ large). When clearly it should be understood & engaged with as a social good & thus protected from the profit motive.
I got in trouble at work for speaking too frankly about senior colleagues poor performance. This paper came from my reflections as to the foundations of my thoughts about vacuous 'leadership': www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a ‘single-minded’ social science that matters - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Social science is not as it should be – I think we have lost contact with what matters. Many scholars have made similar laments and directed their attention at disciplines in an attempt to mark out a ...
www.nature.com
In my experience moral leadership in contemporary academia is largely absence or symbolic. And the senior scholars that do provide it often have to sit outside of formal power structures. It seems easier to clamber the greasy academic pole if you're a malliable coward rather than a principled leader