tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post2731023420693098885..comments2024-03-24T09:13:28.758+00:00Comments on The Plashing Vole: Know your placeThe Plashing Volehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021407602157515927noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-89739706417528098272011-09-20T11:54:29.023+01:002011-09-20T11:54:29.023+01:00Sorry to hear that - I'd have thought the alma...Sorry to hear that - I'd have thought the alma mater might have given you a chance at the interview stage.<br /><br />On the broader point, whilst I certainly think being encouraged to publish research is a good thing, I do think there's an increasingly narrow and obsessive focus on publication track records - presumably a product of the RAE and upcoming REF - which may mean other skill sets get afforded less importance.<br /><br />One of the things that bothers me about this is despite claims of 'quality' supposedly guaranteed by peer review, I've read some pretty awful journal articles in the past few years, yet regardless of this these articles will still count towards a person's publication record. Add to this the fact that some people seem to partly make a living out of writing general 'review of the sub-discipline' type articles that are designed to get cited lots of times, and it would seem that assessing research 'excellence' via publications, citations and journal impact values - and with the close involvement of the grasping academic publishing industry - is perhaps a little flawed.<br /><br />Or maybe I'm just bitter as I've not had an interview in a while either.Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-55315321485010807072011-09-19T19:37:06.211+01:002011-09-19T19:37:06.211+01:00Sorry to hear that you didn't get an interview...Sorry to hear that you didn't get an interview Vole. I'm starting to think that making it in the music business is easier than making it in academia...ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-38296542283198199042011-09-19T18:34:37.064+01:002011-09-19T18:34:37.064+01:00I'm not here to argue you out of your commitme...I'm not here to argue you out of your commitment to churning out scintillating journal articles made exclusively available to people with institutional subscriptions to academic journals, except to point out that, well, IMHO this would be a loss. That's all I'm saying.<br /><br />Your experience is a serious one, and close to home for me too, and I think there are some questions in here for the sustainability of the higher education system. If we're really caving in to the idea that there's a high table for the ruthless and selfish, and a sort of brawling mosh pit of frustration for the rest, surely the blood-and-guts HBO drama interpretation can't be far behind?<br /><br />Can't we do better than this?Music for Deckchairshttp://musicfordeckchairs.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com