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"A lot faculty struggle to find time to keep up on their research agendas during the semester. Between meetings, teachings, and all of the other things that add up to a faculty member’s work life, time often gets away from us," Thomas Polk writes. "So, how do we make time for our research and writing?" … Continue reading Making Time for Research & Writing
Challenging Medical Knowledge Translation – Convergence and Divergence of Translation across Epistemic and Cultural Boundaries Palgrave Communications (https://www.nature.com/palcomms/ ) the open access journal from Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature), which publishes research across the humanities and social sciences, is currently inviting article proposals and full papers for a research article collection (‘special issue’) on … Continue reading CFP: Challenging Medical Knowledge Translation
Owens, J. K. and Nicoll, L. H. (2019), Plagiarism in Predatory Publications: A Comparative Study of Three Nursing Journals. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. doi:10.1111/jnu.12475 Conclusions This study found a substantial level of plagiarism via duplicate publications in the three analyzed predatory journals, further diluting credible scientific literature and risking the ability to synthesize evidence accurately … Continue reading Plagiarism in Predatory Publications: A Comparative Study of Three Nursing Journals
I’d like to connect with scholars who have an interest in potentially contributing to a book on breast cancer as it is experienced/understood in North America and the UK. I currently have a contract with British publishing house Peter Lang Oxford for a book tentatively entitled Breast Cancer Unbound. This volume, scheduled for publication in 2020, is … Continue reading CFP: Breast Cancer Book Chapters
One of the best ways of honing your skills as an academic or professional writer is to serve as an anonymous peer reviewer for others' manuscript submissions to journals. If you are new to this, there are several online guides: An online course in writing and reviewing for professional publications prepared by Patricia Gonce Morton, … Continue reading Guides for Reviewing Others’ Mss
CFP: International Medical Humanities Conference Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities The MSU Medical Humanities Program and ‘Waiting Times’ (a Wellcome Trust funded research project based at the University of Exeter and Birkbeck, University of London, UK) are pleased to announce an international conference on the theme of “Chronicity and Crisis” to be … Continue reading CFP Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities
Gender and Trauma: Material, Methods, Media 2019 Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University September 20–21, 2019 Grand Rapids, Michigan Co-organized by Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University), Julia B. Köhne (Humboldt University in Berlin), Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen) and Ville Kivimäki (University of Tampere, Finland). Sponsored by the Grand Valley State University … Continue reading CFP: Gender and Trauma: Material, Methods, Media
