"book reviews are essential to how we engage with knowledge in our fields and beyond. When done well, they signal deep engagement with the thinking of others and provide insights into how we value each other’s contributions to knowledge" (p. 16 https://apples.journal.fi/article/view/114738/75360)

#SlowAcademia #AcademicPublishing #AcWri #tleap

Appreciating the art of the #BookReview #AcademicReading #SlowAcademia #HigherEducation #AcademicPublishing
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/12/01/how-academics-review-books-and-each-other/

In case of interest, I've blogged about my thoughts & experiences of #AcademicPublishing here:

https://academicemergence.press/

I have a co-authored article on this issue coming out soon(ish) with Professor Kristina Hultgren of the #OpenUniversity, so trying to keep related publications on this in one thread, but also hoping for #AcademicMastodon reactions & reflections to questions of #OpenAccess #DemocratisingKnowledge #EthicalPublishing #SlowAcademia

It's gone.

I've de-activated my main bird account, my window into #interdisciplinary knowledge, threads of thought - rabbit-holes, maybe - that have been a staple of my research for exactly 10 years (from #PhD to Lectureship).

But I know who to look for and where, now. And perhaps this is the catalyst for a healthier #SlowAcademia or #DifferentAcademia or #JudiciousAcademia or #ReflexiveAcademia.

I now need #TheOpenUniversity to transition so I can let go of my professional alias @pace-ou 🐦

This is my 2nd #MastodonIntroduction as I had to move instance, so apologies to those who already know me and 'hi' to my new sciences.social instance 🙂

Academic writing #AcWri is my thing as well as the #RealPolitik that surrounds it, eg calls for #SlowAcademia, ethical #AcademicPublishing practices, and ensuring those who don't easily get their academic voices heard are read (eg my work with https://www.ucl.ac.uk/nahrein/apply/academiq).

More in my bio.

Very happy to be on #AcademicMastodon!

By way of a #MastodonIntroduction, I'm a UK-based academic working part-time at the Open University's Graduate School & Dept. of Languages & Applied Linguistics.

Academic Writing (#AcWri) is my thing, especially its socio-linguistic, #ArtificialIntelligence and critical implications (hence #CriticalRealism in my profile).

I'm also involved in projects to enable less-heard academic voices to emerge, eg via https://www.ucl.ac.uk/nahrein/apply/academiq

I toot in English, Italian, French.

In search of #SlowAcademia