For dalmeny: A call for written contributions to a book on the ethics of "fan studies":

"Ethical issues are raised whenever a researcher investigates a particular group or community. These ethical considerations are often compounded by resistance to academic scrutiny on the part of the community or group being investigated ( Read more... )

Australian academics will be aware the latest version of the ERA journals list has just been released. (ERA is the Australian "research excellence" quality monitoring system, equivalent to the UK's REF). Now I've had lots of corridor moans with colleagues about the potential negative impact of the ERA journal ranking on the discipline: early-career ( Read more... )

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There's so much discussion of this meme right now (based on ”From What Privileges Do You Have?,” an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen and colleagues at Illinois State University), and so many comments from UK LJ-ers who feel that the questions are US-centric, that I thought it was worth ( Read more... )

Browsing the JISCmail index, I was unaccountably disturbed by the discovery of a listserv for people interested in dark tourism, or 'thanatourism' as it is apparently also known. 2 mins websearching says it's a fast-growing research area ( Read more... )

Can't remember if I've mentioned this before.

Reading a lot about phenomenography at work. I submitted an abstract today for a paper which tries to bring together 2 conceptual frameworks for researching education: activity theory, and phenomenography. Activity theory basically means a lot of Finns. Phenomenowotsit, already hard to say (gets harder ( Read more... )