In a collaborative effort between AMIN and the Professional and Academic Discourse research group at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, Johannes Angermuller presented a seminar titled ai???Academic mobility. Preliminary results from the DISCONEX projectai??? on 16 February 2017. As Principal Investigator of the DISCONEX project, Johannes shared the background information about this ERC-funded project about academic researchers in mainly three countries (UK, France, Germany) and a small pool in USA. The project studies researchers in these countries from both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
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Presentation of academic CVs online ai??i?? comparing French and British cases
How are the educational qualifications of scholars presented differently in French and British academia? Aurore Zelazny & Kyoung-Mi Kim, who work as research assistants in DISCONEX, share some observations in this post.
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Mapping the field ai??i?? What makes a professor in linguistics?
Analysing academic worlds is very straight forward ai??i?? thatai??i??s at least what one might think!
There are these researchers doing their research in a particular way depending on their discipline and their research field, working in strong international networks and publishing in journals of global renown. However, once our team started to dig into this we werenai??i??t sure, any longer, if there is only one academic world or rather multiple worlds, depending on the administrative culture and the institutional structure of academia in a particular country. Continue reading Mapping the field ai??i?? What makes a professor in linguistics?
Why study positioning practices in academia? Voices from DISCONEX project
Science and scientists have been the object of scholarship for some time now. Fields like the philosophy, sociology, or history of science as well as the sociology of intellectuals are all interested in how ideas and scientific discoveries emerge in certain (social, historical, philosophical) contexts.Ai??In this post junior researchers of the DISCONEX project explain what inspired them to investigate the curious world of academic researchers.
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