Last month (December 2015) I delivered a couple of papers at the annual conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education. One of them was on this project’s findings so far. The Powerpoint is below:
One of the things I discussed with my audience was the strange things happening to disciplines in Higher Education, and the new disciplinary identities emerging. Since identities permeate academics’ writing practices for research, teaching, and even admin work, the paper generated a lot of interest and discussion. Some of these were also tweeted about:
Listening to @ibrar_bhatt talking about academic writing practices captured 'live' through screen recording – fascinating idea #SRHE2015
— Dr Inger Mewburn (@thesiswhisperer) December 10, 2015
#SRHE. is the REF definition of in discipline creating smaller more narrow minded communities? Listening to @ibrar_bhatt raises important ?s
— portygadfly (@betterbyfar) December 10, 2015
"How many genres do we have to deal with?" asks @ibrar_bhatt – new performance metrics create new forms of academic writing #SRHE2015
— Dr Inger Mewburn (@thesiswhisperer) December 10, 2015
Is "text creep" part of the increasing pressure to account for time us? Big Data's capacity to track every stroke? @ibrar_bhatt #srhe2015
— portygadfly (@betterbyfar) December 10, 2015