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Is anybody who is involved in #DoctoralEducation able to point me towards a similar report or study on the UK knowledge society, maybe by #UKCGE or similar?

#DoctoralWriting #PhD #GraduateSchool #DoctoralPedagogy

This one is on the European context👇🏼
{JM [email protected]}
https://www.eua.eu/publications/reports/doctoral-education-in-europe-today-enhanced-structures-and-practices-for-the-european-knowledge-society.html

Is anybody who is involved in #DoctoralEducation able to point me towards a similar report or study on the UK knowledge society, maybe by #UKCGE or similar?

#DoctoralWriting #PhD #GraduateSchool #DoctoralPedagogy

This one is on the European context👇🏼
{JM [email protected]}
https://www.eua.eu/publications/reports/doctoral-education-in-europe-today-enhanced-structures-and-practices-for-the-european-knowledge-society.html

📢Registration for our event in Milton Keynes (UK) is open until 30 June✅

We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical & spontaneous♨️
But online places are still available.

#DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #AcWri

#OpenUniversity

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-doctoral-writing-critical-dialogues-towards-a-manifesto-tickets-1367263665429?aff=oddtdtcreator

📢Registration for our event in Milton Keynes (UK) is open until 30 June✅

We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical & spontaneous♨️
But online places are still available.

#DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #AcWri

#OpenUniversity

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-doctoral-writing-critical-dialogues-towards-a-manifesto-tickets-1367263665429?aff=oddtdtcreator

Being academically relevant as Ur-fascism rages & colonialism murders means, for me, ensuring my scholarship is activist-urgent.

I have a keynote soon, an event on the Future of #DoctoralWriting, 2 chapters on politics and humanity:

the 'so what' matters more than ever✊🏼

#AcademicWriting #Intifada

Being academically relevant as Ur-fascism rages & colonialism murders means, for me, ensuring my scholarship is activist-urgent.

I have a keynote soon, an event on the Future of #DoctoralWriting, 2 chapters on politics and humanity:

the 'so what' matters more than ever✊🏼

#AcademicWriting #Intifada

In case of interest, the #OpenUniversity #GraduateSchool has just published its guidance on the use of #GenAI in #DoctoralWriting:

https://www5.open.ac.uk/students/research/ou/services/position-statement-and-guidance-generative-ai-and-doctoral-education

Informed comments are welcome as this document has been conceived as a 'living document' responsive to change in an evolving tech landscape.

#AcademicMastodon #MastodonAcademic
#AcWri
#phdThesis

In case of interest, the #OpenUniversity #GraduateSchool has just published its guidance on the use of #GenAI in #DoctoralWriting:

https://www5.open.ac.uk/students/research/ou/services/position-statement-and-guidance-generative-ai-and-doctoral-education

Informed comments are welcome as this document has been conceived as a 'living document' responsive to change in an evolving tech landscape.

#AcademicMastodon #MastodonAcademic
#AcWri
#phdThesis

After much bureaucracy, this event is scheduled 9 July 2025.

It will be advertised asap on #BAAL #BALEAP #DoctoralWriting #AcWri #tleap #EATAW #CUP networks.

It will be in person-hybrid at #OpenUniversity in #MiltonKeynes but due to funding constraints, tickets will be limited.

Email me for info.

After much bureaucracy, this event is scheduled 9 July 2025.

It will be advertised asap on #BAAL #BALEAP #DoctoralWriting #AcWri #tleap #EATAW #CUP networks.

It will be in person-hybrid at #OpenUniversity in #MiltonKeynes but due to funding constraints, tickets will be limited.

Email me for info.

I'm planning an event on 'The Future of the Doctorate' (will update here asap).

In the meantime, what are your views on its future, given all that's happening?

#AcWri #DoctoralEducation #DoctoralWriting #PhDLife #Thesis #ResearchWriting #GenAI #GAI

#AcademicSky

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146570/

I'm planning an event on 'The Future of the Doctorate' (will update here asap).

In the meantime, what are your views on its future, given all that's happening?

#AcWri #DoctoralEducation #DoctoralWriting #PhDLife #Thesis #ResearchWriting #GenAI #GAI

#AcademicSky

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146570/

Hold this thought: doctoral supervisee said today they don't trust the #LLMs to summarise articles for them.

They've been down the snake oil rabbit hole of 'supercharging' academic reading-writing, and emerged nauseous.

They said reading is intellectually 'satisfying'.

#AcWri #DoctoralWriting #PhD

Hold this thought: doctoral supervisee said today they don't trust the #LLMs to summarise articles for them.

They've been down the snake oil rabbit hole of 'supercharging' academic reading-writing, and emerged nauseous.

They said reading is intellectually 'satisfying'.

#AcWri #DoctoralWriting #PhD

Must read asap.

#DoctoralWriting #AcWri #WritingCircle #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #knowledge

https://www.multilingual-matters.co.uk/page/detail/?k=9781800419612

Must read asap.

#DoctoralWriting #AcWri #WritingCircle #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #knowledge

https://www.multilingual-matters.co.uk/page/detail/?k=9781800419612

I've just been gratefully reminded that academic writing can be an act of love, justice, and care, as well as "the very essence of what it means to be human" (p. 265).

✍️🏼🕊️

#AcWri #DoctoralWriting #ResearchWriting

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350507617753560

I've just been gratefully reminded that academic writing can be an act of love, justice, and care, as well as "the very essence of what it means to be human" (p. 265).

✍️🏼🕊️

#AcWri #DoctoralWriting #ResearchWriting

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350507617753560

Please share your good practices for responding to reviewers' & academic feedback more generally (eg #supervisor feedback)?

#PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #DoctoralWriting #PhD #Revisions #AcWri

Some suggestions:

- https://patthomson.net/2021/11/08/revising-start-strategically/

- https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/blog/peer-review/how-to-respond-to-reviewer-comments/

Please share your good practices for responding to reviewers' & academic feedback more generally (eg #supervisor feedback)?

#PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #DoctoralWriting #PhD #Revisions #AcWri

Some suggestions:

- https://patthomson.net/2021/11/08/revising-start-strategically/

- https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/blog/peer-review/how-to-respond-to-reviewer-comments/

I'm thinking of planning an event on the future of #DoctoralWriting, marginally triggered by the irruption of #GAI, but mostly rooted in much earlier & established concerns around what #AcWri is & should be.

What might you want from such an event?
#HigherEducation
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146587/

I'm thinking of planning an event on the future of #DoctoralWriting, marginally triggered by the irruption of #GAI, but mostly rooted in much earlier & established concerns around what #AcWri is & should be.

What might you want from such an event?
#HigherEducation
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146587/

Does anyone know why there's no mention of #GAI and v. little on changes in #DoctoralWriting practices (cf https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146587/) in #UKRI New Deal for PG Research?

Are these issues considered elsewhere?

#HigherEducation #ArtificialIntelligence #AcWri #PhD

https://www.ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/UKRI-26092023-A-New-Deal-for-Postgraduate-Research-Response-to-the-Call-for-Input.pdf

Does anyone know why there's no mention of #GAI and v. little on changes in #DoctoralWriting practices (cf https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146587/) in #UKRI New Deal for PG Research?

Are these issues considered elsewhere?

#HigherEducation #ArtificialIntelligence #AcWri #PhD

https://www.ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/UKRI-26092023-A-New-Deal-for-Postgraduate-Research-Response-to-the-Call-for-Input.pdf

Looking forward to reading this as soon as the price comes down:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146570/

#DoctoralWriting #PhD #thesis #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #Genre #AcWri

Looking forward to reading this as soon as the price comes down:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-and-stability-in-thesis-and-dissertation-writing-9781350146570/

#DoctoralWriting #PhD #thesis #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #tleap #AcademicLiteracies #Genre #AcWri

Comprehensive, sensitive, attentive review of 'Re-imagining doctoral writing' (https://wac.colostate.edu/books/international/doctoral/) by Fergal Treanor available here:

https://research.baleap.org/book-reviews/re-imagining-doctoral-writing/?amp=1

#DoctoralWriting #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #PhDLife #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #OpenAccess

Comprehensive, sensitive, attentive review of 'Re-imagining doctoral writing' (https://wac.colostate.edu/books/international/doctoral/) by Fergal Treanor available here:

https://research.baleap.org/book-reviews/re-imagining-doctoral-writing/?amp=1

#DoctoralWriting #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #PhDLife #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #OpenAccess

Hello @annamills, thank you for your work on #AI literacies, pedagogies, and awareness raising. It's helping me, at least, raise awareness within my own academic writing contexts.

Are you aware of any similar and/or specific work - including your own that I'm not aware of - relating to the use of #LLMs and other #ArtificialIntelligence writing technologies in #DoctoralWriting #DoctoralResearch #ResearchWriting?

#AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicIntegrity #AILiteracies #tleap #AcademicLiteracies

Hello @annamills, thank you for your work on #AI literacies, pedagogies, and awareness raising. It's helping me, at least, raise awareness within my own academic writing contexts.

Are you aware of any similar and/or specific work - including your own that I'm not aware of - relating to the use of #LLMs and other #ArtificialIntelligence writing technologies in #DoctoralWriting #DoctoralResearch #ResearchWriting?

#AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicIntegrity #AILiteracies #tleap #AcademicLiteracies

My book #WhatMakesWritingAcademic will be available in paperback from September 2023.

It's relevant to academic writers & their teachers because it engages critically with how knowledge is shaped by the forms of writing we choose.

You can pre-order from
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/ as well as from your preferred bookshop.

If you've read it, please let me know what you think of it and how you've used it.

Thnx

#AcWri #AcademicWriting #DoctoralWriting #CreativeWriting #CriticalRealism #OpenAccess

My book #WhatMakesWritingAcademic will be available in paperback from September 2023.

It's relevant to academic writers & their teachers because it engages critically with how knowledge is shaped by the forms of writing we choose.

You can pre-order from
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/ as well as from your preferred bookshop.

If you've read it, please let me know what you think of it and how you've used it.

Thnx

#AcWri #AcademicWriting #DoctoralWriting #CreativeWriting #CriticalRealism #OpenAccess

Hi #academicmastodon

Thinking ahead to the 2023-24 academic year (plus related tedious budget requests) and to populating my calendar with conferences & events relating to:

#AcademicLiteracies #DoctoralWriting #DoctoralPedagogies #AcademicPublishing #PostGraduateEducation #AcWri #ArtificialIntelligence {JM}

What's on your agendas, pls, so I can get a sense of what to look into?

Thank you, J

Hi #academicmastodon

Thinking ahead to the 2023-24 academic year (plus related tedious budget requests) and to populating my calendar with conferences & events relating to:

#AcademicLiteracies #DoctoralWriting #DoctoralPedagogies #AcademicPublishing #PostGraduateEducation #AcWri #ArtificialIntelligence {JM}

What's on your agendas, pls, so I can get a sense of what to look into?

Thank you, J

I'm currently reading a #PhD thesis that refers to cited authors by first name only (Paul, Carolyn, Roy, etc.).

Is this a 'thing'? A citing convention?

The thesis is about #NarrativeEnquiry and #CriticalRealism

I rather like it. I feel like I am being told a story (all the evidence base is there, the argument holds, and cited authors are reified to the status of embodied people).

#DoctoralWriting #PhDThesis #AcademicChatter #AcWri

I'm currently reading a #PhD thesis that refers to cited authors by first name only (Paul, Carolyn, Roy, etc.).

Is this a 'thing'? A citing convention?

The thesis is about #NarrativeEnquiry and #CriticalRealism

I rather like it. I feel like I am being told a story (all the evidence base is there, the argument holds, and cited authors are reified to the status of embodied people).

#DoctoralWriting #PhDThesis #AcademicChatter #AcWri

The time spent trying to get up to speed with the proliferation of AI-enhanced technology and those promising to 'super-charge' and 'power-up' writing productivity is better spent simply getting on with your writing - unless you've also got the time & expertise to fact-check and edit the machine-paper.

Own your research and the ways to represent it. The form of your writing is part of the 'original contribution', so own it 💪🏽✍️

#PhDLife #AcademicChatter #AcWri #DoctoralWriting #gpt #BARD #claude

The time spent trying to get up to speed with the proliferation of AI-enhanced technology and those promising to 'super-charge' and 'power-up' writing productivity is better spent simply getting on with your writing - unless you've also got the time & expertise to fact-check and edit the machine-paper.

Own your research and the ways to represent it. The form of your writing is part of the 'original contribution', so own it 💪🏽✍️

#PhDLife #AcademicChatter #AcWri #DoctoralWriting #gpt #BARD #claude

A doctoral researcher wrote to me today asking me for views on #gpt (she is at my institution & comes to me to discuss her #DoctoralWriting).

She is genuinely confused about whose advice to follow and has signed up to one of the new 'academic writing gurus' promising to fix everything with AI.

I took the opportunity to post this on the bird site (because that is still where my students read me):

https://twitter.com/pace_ou/status/1634140849972862976

I would welcome thoughts from #AcademicMastodon about what I said #AcWri

A doctoral researcher wrote to me today asking me for views on #gpt (she is at my institution & comes to me to discuss her #DoctoralWriting).

She is genuinely confused about whose advice to follow and has signed up to one of the new 'academic writing gurus' promising to fix everything with AI.

I took the opportunity to post this on the bird site (because that is still where my students read me):

https://twitter.com/pace_ou/status/1634140849972862976

I would welcome thoughts from #AcademicMastodon about what I said #AcWri

Can we decolonise our doctoral training (https://wonkhe.com/blogs/can-we-decolonise-our-doctoral-training/ as well as the comments)?

"When we teach mentoring and coaching skills, we may tell participants to *adopt a paused speech pattern for effective listening*. However, for some cultural backgrounds and ethnicities, reflective pauses in conversation can be perceived as uncertainty, hostility or even rudeness."

Thinking of this also in relation to #MultiLingualism #TransLingualism in #AcWri practices #DoctoralWriting

Should we?

Can we decolonise our doctoral training (https://wonkhe.com/blogs/can-we-decolonise-our-doctoral-training/ as well as the comments)?

"When we teach mentoring and coaching skills, we may tell participants to *adopt a paused speech pattern for effective listening*. However, for some cultural backgrounds and ethnicities, reflective pauses in conversation can be perceived as uncertainty, hostility or even rudeness."

Thinking of this also in relation to #MultiLingualism #TransLingualism in #AcWri practices #DoctoralWriting

Should we?

I guess it is early days for systematic research on this to be completed, but having read this by Dr Katherine Firth - suggesting that since #DoctoralWriting is about 'new knowledge', #GPT may be less likely to pose a threat - I am left wondering:

- is this true?

IMO, it may be, but only insofar as GPT only draws on knowledge available on the internet (up to 2021, for now).

So could PhDs become more primary and less archival?

https://researchinsiders.blog/2022/12/16/will-an-ai-soon-be-writing-our-phds/

#AcWri #PhD #ArtificialIntelligence #GPT

I guess it is early days for systematic research on this to be completed, but having read this by Dr Katherine Firth - suggesting that since #DoctoralWriting is about 'new knowledge', #GPT may be less likely to pose a threat - I am left wondering:

- is this true?

IMO, it may be, but only insofar as GPT only draws on knowledge available on the internet (up to 2021, for now).

So could PhDs become more primary and less archival?

https://researchinsiders.blog/2022/12/16/will-an-ai-soon-be-writing-our-phds/

#AcWri #PhD #ArtificialIntelligence #GPT

Here is #GPT-3's reply - it gives no source and is UK-centric (not all theses are 'defended in front of a panel of experts')
#DoctoralWriting #PhD #ArtificialIntelligence #AcWri

Here is #GPT-3's reply - it gives no source and is UK-centric (not all theses are 'defended in front of a panel of experts')
#DoctoralWriting #PhD #ArtificialIntelligence #AcWri

Would anybody be able to point towards an updated (or internationally-referred to, eg Bologna-type equivalence) document on the core criteria & standards doctorates are held to, eg making an original contribution to knowledge, sustained independent research, what counts as evidence of completion (eg. a final thesis, a minimum word count, an exegisis, a viva, publications, etc).

Or does each country/institution set its own standards?

Thanx

#AcademicMastodon #DoctoralWriting #PhD #thesis #AcWri

Would anybody be able to point towards an updated (or internationally-referred to, eg Bologna-type equivalence) document on the core criteria & standards doctorates are held to, eg making an original contribution to knowledge, sustained independent research, what counts as evidence of completion (eg. a final thesis, a minimum word count, an exegisis, a viva, publications, etc).

Or does each country/institution set its own standards?

Thanx

#AcademicMastodon #DoctoralWriting #PhD #thesis #AcWri

@sharplm

Wow!

So, I've given it the same 'story title' (which is deliberately the content of my book) but started it off differently: quite a story, in each case!

Can't begin fathom how much better #GPT-4 will be and keeping an eye on the implications for #AcWri and #DoctoralWriting #DoctoralResearch

#ArtificialIntelligence #Authorship #AcademicAgency #HigherEducation #KnowledgeCreation

@sharplm

Wow!

So, I've given it the same 'story title' (which is deliberately the content of my book) but started it off differently: quite a story, in each case!

Can't begin to fathom how much better #GPT-4 will be and keeping an eye on the implications for #AcWri and #DoctoralWriting #DoctoralResearch

#ArtificialIntelligence #Authorship #AcademicAgency #HigherEducation #KnowledgeCreation

Sharing from the bird site, as those involved don't seem to be on #AcademicMastodon, yet (sigh!) - wish more of my communities would migrate as this ventriloquising & (s)elective third-party advocacy is high maintenance and increasingly unsustainable 😣

#AcademicChatter #PhD #thesis #PhDbyPublication #HigherEducation #DoctoralWriting #AcWri

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-book-launch-landscapes-and-narratives-of-phd-by-publication-tickets-453991399497?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Sharing from the bird site, as those involved don't seem to be on #AcademicMastodon, yet (sigh!) - wish more of my communities would migrate as this ventriloquising & (s)elective third-party advocacy is high maintenance and increasingly unsustainable 😣

#AcademicChatter #PhD #thesis #PhDbyPublication #HigherEducation #DoctoralWriting #AcWri

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-book-launch-landscapes-and-narratives-of-phd-by-publication-tickets-453991399497?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Some of you may be interested in this #podcast resource on #AcademicWriting where authors are interviewed about their books

#AcWri #DoctoralWriting #STEM #ScienceWriting #AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #NewBooksNetwork #tleap #EnglishForAcademicPurposes #EAP (hoping to see some of my EAP folk on here since I closed my EAP bird account)

https://newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/1dea1d2c-5a16-4797-82ae-edfb1f79eb99

Some of you may be interested in this #podcast resource on #AcademicWriting where authors are interviewed about their books

#AcWri #DoctoralWriting #STEM #ScienceWriting #AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #NewBooksNetwork #tleap #EnglishForAcademicPurposes #EAP (hoping to see some of my EAP folk on here since I closed my EAP bird account)

https://newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/1dea1d2c-5a16-4797-82ae-edfb1f79eb99