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Author Archives: haris aziz
Micromanaging supervisors
One can encounter many PhD students who complain that their supervisors don’t have time to supervise them properly or that they could not be bothered until the annual progress report is due. If a PhD student mainly depends on the … Read More
Tagged: managing, supervising, time, time management
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Habilitation
My research group’s head is currently completing his habilitation. He was surprised that I knew about habilitation as it is not an academic qualification universally required for tenured positions. However it is definitely an academic qualification which is widely looked … Read More
Subversion
I am becoming a great fan of subversion. Having used some version of it when I did a couple of internships in undergrad days, I did not feel a great need for it during my PhD projects. However, I am … Read More
Quasi-academic jobs
The Chronicle has an interview of Scott Keeter who after twenty-four years as university faculty member is now working in a think tank The interview dwells on the similarities and differences between academic jobs and ‘quasi-academic jobs’. Quasi-academic jobs are … Read More
Tagged: quasi-academic jobs
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Communicating knowledge report
Research Information Network (RIN) and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) have published a new report Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings. The goal of the report was to study how research is communicated and … Read More
Communicating science
Communicating scientific research to lay people is a difficult task. There are scientists like Ian Stewart, Simon Singh, Roger Penrose, Richard Dawkins and others who do a great job at it. One needs to shake off all the formalism and … Read More
Tagged: communicating science
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Statistics in demand
The NYT has an interesting article on the importance and demand of statistics in the internet age. The main theme is that although huge amount of complex data is available, there is a pressing need for useful analysis, identifying patterns, … Read More
Tagged: statistics
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