Tag Archives: impact

Looking for Aesop in AESOP: call for reflections

Posted on August 29, 2018 by

AESOP is broad and diverse community of scholars and practitioners at diverse stages in their career(s). The AESOP 2018 conference was a strong, engaged and engaging reflection of this diversity, which finds expression in the different thematic groups and wide range of … Continue reading →

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The Mayors Adapt (Convenant of Mayors 2.0): toward a smart city.

Posted on October 9, 2014 by

It was held in Naples, the inauguration of Mayors Adapt initiative, commissioned by the Directorate General of the European Commission’s Climate Action and founded assuming the EU adaptation strategy to climate change. Mayors Adapt supports the cities, creating an opportunity … Continue reading →

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Why Metrics Cannot Measure Research Quality: A Response to the HEFCE Consultation

Posted on June 16, 2014 by

Blog The Disorder of Things is sharing a response to the call of the UK Higher Education Funding Concil about the use of metrics in research assessment.Are metrics (i.e. citation counts) useful for assessing “quality” (which is different from impact … Continue reading →

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Writing, impacting, timing in academe

Posted on May 12, 2014 by

This post is a meta-post, delivering a few (more) considerations about the practice of writing in, and for, academe. Brian Tomasik has a good essay that, although provocatively, questions: “is it better to blog or formally publish”? The essay suggests … Continue reading →

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