Saturday, 25 January 2014

What is educational neuroscience?

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©CartoonStock.com As someone who works at the interface of child development and neuroscience, I've been struck by the relentless r...
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

Why does so much research go unpublished?

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As described in my last blogpost , I attended an excellent symposium on waste in research this week. A recurring theme was research that...
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Thursday, 9 January 2014

Off with the old and on with the new: the pressures against cumulative research

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  Yesterday I escaped a very soggy Oxford to make it down to London for a symposium on "Increasing value, reducing waste" in Res...
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Friday, 3 January 2014

A New Year's letter to academic publishers

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My relationships with journals are rather like a bad marriage: a mixture of dependency and hatred. Part of the problem is that journal edi...
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Wednesday, 1 January 2014

How the government spins a crisis: the blame game

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from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkHb9q-jpDU Thousands of people in the UK had a truly miserable Christmas, with extreme weather lea...
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Friday, 27 December 2013

The impact of blogging on reputation

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I was alerted this morning on Twitter to this blogpost by Brian LePort on the first of 5 reasons why students shouldn't blog . Its cen...
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Saturday, 30 November 2013

A letter to Boris Johnson

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Dear Boris, Last week you   created a media storm with your speech at the Centre for Policy Studies in London. As a self-publicist, y...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

The Matthew effect and REF2014

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For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which...
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Thursday, 10 October 2013

On the need for responsible reporting of research to the media

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This was one of the first tweets I saw when I woke up this morning : In response, a parent of two girls with autism tweeted "gutte...
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Wednesday, 9 October 2013

High time to revise the PhD thesis format

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Before the electronic age: Henry Wellcome's dissertation from 1874 I don't know how it works in other countries, but in the UK, ...
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Saturday, 5 October 2013

Good and bad news on the phonics screen

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Teaching children to read is a remarkably fraught topic. Last year the UK Government introduced a screening check to assess children...
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