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kevinkosullivan, 7 months ago to histodons

Next week's @universityofgalway history research seminar features Dr Eavan O'Dochartaigh on 'Tracing and Returning a Greenlandic Woman through the Archives of Exploration'. In-person in Room G010, Hardiman Building, at 4.00pm, 8 November. For the Zoom link, register at https://forms.office.com/e/Ezy9tXU45H

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kevinkosullivan, 7 months ago

@universityofgalway @histodons POSTPONED - Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, this seminar has been postponed. We hope to re-schedule the talk at a later date.

kevinkosullivan, 8 months ago to histodons

I'm looking for literature on the relationship between concepts of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development' and local practices in the Global South and/or indigenous communities in the Global North (e.g. First Nations).

Specifically, I'd like to know how 'sustainability' is defined; what forms of knowledge are privileged; and how local practices are described by outsiders (& vice versa).

All suggestions welcome!

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kevinkosullivan, 8 months ago

@sinensetin @histodons @i_ngli Thanks - all suggestions gratefully received!

kevinkosullivan, 8 months ago

@gscumming @histodons This is brilliant - these are exactly the themes that I'm interested in. Thanks a million.

Marrekoo, 8 months ago to phdlife Dutch

Just being a newbie in writing for academic journals, how bad is it if reviewer 1 is like "great idea, well written, but x,y,z need some more attention", reviewer 3 is like "nice work, interesting points, though I miss a,b" and reviewer 2 is like "I thought this would be good but it's meh, you're too far from this journal's standard and why would this be novel cuz don't see it." ? @phdlife @academicchatter

Oh yeah. I have a 10k word count limit, already at 9993.

kevinkosullivan, 8 months ago

@Marrekoo @phdlife @academicchatter This is a fairly standard situation, and the journal editor should be your friend in this process. No need to do everything the reviewers suggest, but you will need to respond to everything (even if just to say why you didn't incorporate certain suggestions). Overall, though, a very good first set of peer reviews!

kevinkosullivan, 10 months ago to academicchatter

A question for humanities and social sciences colleagues. What are the best literature mapping tools for our disciplines?

I've tried Research Rabbit and found it ok, but I wonder if Connected Papers or similar might work better. A specific question is whether there is any tool that doesn't rely solely on Scopus or similar, but takes a broader sweep of the literature? Thoughts?

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kevinkosullivan, 10 months ago

@histodons @academicchatter This appears to be a tougher question to answer than I suspected... I had a quick look at Connected Papers this morning but found it limited.

By contrast, when it works, the visualisation on Research Rabbit is brilliant. Great potential to cut significant amounts of time. But it would be very useful to know what databases each of these engines pulls from. There are huge gaps for HSS scholars on many of the metrics-generating databases.

kevinkosullivan, 10 months ago

@gpollara @academicchatter Yes, an unequal playing field but it plugged a lot more people into global debates. At the very least, it was good for finding out what was going on.