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Tag Archives: research
View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
Over the next few blogs I will seek to provide an overview of the educational climate in India, and the extent to which international alliances are changing or are likely to change the university experience .
Why are British universities seeking to find a presence in India?
The Indian government has plans to increase the number of university goers from a current 12 per cent of the population to 30 per cent. In plain terms this works out to a present university student population of 12 million, and a projected increase to 30 million.
I want to present a side to the global impact of the ongoing changes in the Indian university system that is seldom seen in the media.
That is, what is the university experience in India from the point of view of the student and the lecturer?
Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
Ritu: I maintain an extensive professional network through writing, reading and research. I make prospective employers aware of my work and establish a continuing dialogue to contribute significantly towards health, social research and policy. This also helps me to find and select the kinds of projects I am keen to work on.
Let’s Talk: Meeting Dr. Ritu Mahendru
Let’s Talk resumes its interview series with higher education professionals, and is delighted to welcome Dr. Ritu Mahendru. Ritu has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Kent (2010) and authored the book: “Young People’s Perceptions of Gender, Risk and AIDS: A comparative analysis of India and the UK (2010).
First off, many congratulations on completing your doctorate in Sociology. Would you like to comment on your early career experiences now that you’ve got it under your belt? What are your career plans, and what do you think of the present job market in the UK and outside it? Read More
Tagged: activist, being human, Britain, career building, critical, diaspora, doctorate, gender, higher education professionals, humanities, India, international development, living in two countries, marginalization, migration, priyali ghosh, public health, publishing, research, research and teaching, ritu mahendru, sexual health, social sciences, sociology, south asian, South Asian Sexual Health Forum, voice
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Are You A Digital Researcher?
What do people find when they Google you — an attractive profile on LinkedIn or your own website or blog? Some photos you’d rather your mate hadn’t put Facebook? Or just some random comments hidden inside a PDF from three years ago? Do you think you don’t have time to develop digital research skills and profile yourself and your work on the web? Can you afford not to? Read More
Tagged: career building, digital, marketing, profile, research, researcher
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Reference management and citation software
Back at the start of my first year, a member of Information Services led us through how to use EndNote to collect and manage references and sources, and I could see the joy it could bring to researchers. The amount … Read More
Tagged: application, citation, references, research, software, structure, thesis, writing
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After the Riots: Your Inner Polymath
In my previous post I mentioned the MacTaggart lecture delivered in Edinburgh last week by Eric Schmidt who is the chairman of Google, in the same breath that I expressed my individual questions and distress in response to the rioting we have witnessed so recently.
It may seem strange to link the two things but I hope it will become clear why I am.
As reported in The Guardian last Saturday Mr. Schmidt said, “Over the past century the UK has stopped nurturing its polymaths. You need to bring art and science back together.”
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Research and Teaching: the Stretch
In this post I want to talk about the relationship between your research and your teaching.
Be flexible and be open to the opportunities around you – don’t shy away because you think it’s not what you trained to do. Let your research self breathe and your teaching self too – they need to not be frozen into one place and one time in an infinite universe. Read More
