Research practice and communities

Warning! "New paper" does not mean "new research" (plea for reading the methods section of AI papers)

Writing AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 16 April 2025 · Blog post

Announcing Research Zoo - A Habitat for Guerrilla Research

Writing Researchity · 23 March 2014 · Blog post

This piece introduces Research Zoo as a practical platform that could support guerrilla researchers, practitioner collaboration, shared research design, and funding.

Do researchers need Personal Learning Networks? Yes!

Writing Researchity · 21 July 2012 · Blog post

This piece argues that researchers should make their learning networks more open through blogging and social media so newcomers and practitioners can participate.

Kickstarting research on development: Right on involvement, wrong on outputs

Writing Researchity · 9 April 2012 · Blog post

This piece supports public participation in research funding but rejects printed outputs and context-free quantitative claims about development programmes.

Peer review should be more like Hypothes.is than Hypothes.is should be like peer review!

Writing Researchity · 1 November 2011 · Blog post

This piece argues that open, pseudonymous, trackable review could make scholarly trust more accountable and loosen academic publishing's control over knowledge.

Is OpenIDEO a good model for a research community?

Writing Researchity · 31 March 2011 · Blog post

This review assesses OpenIDEO as a model for community-based research while identifying gaps in brainstorming, reputation, user-led questions, tagging, and project branching.

Community research and "knowledge exchange network" for neuroscience

Writing Researchity · 2 March 2011 · Blog post

This piece proposes a neuroscience knowledge-exchange network that gives researchers and practitioners equal roles in discussion, curation, reputation, and small-scale research.

Sharing without community is just piling stuff up

Writing Researchity · 21 February 2011 · Blog post

This piece argues that educational repositories need trusted communities, social curation, and regular discovery channels to make shared resources useful.

Get the Data: Community for Quantitative research

Writing Researchity · 15 February 2011 · Blog post

This note assesses Get The Data as a quantitative research community whose question-and-answer and reputation features could help organise broader research projects.

Toward Community-based Research for Education

Writing Researchity · 11 February 2011 · Blog post

This piece proposes community-based educational research in which practitioners and researchers define questions, award small grants, and share situated findings during the work.

links for 2010-11-26

Writing techczech.net · 27 November 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to a list of freely accessible journals about online learning.

links for 2010-09-04

Writing techczech.net · 5 September 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to the Public Library of Science as an open-access academic publishing resource.

links for 2010-08-05

Writing techczech.net · 6 August 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to a WordPress-based academic social network for collaboration and online learning.

Anthologize: 5 lessons for microfunding of research and development projects

Writing Researchity · 4 August 2010 · Blog post

This piece uses the Anthologize project to argue that short, inexpensive, public projects can produce useful tools and research through iterative work.

The Tortoise and the Hare: Analogy for Academia in the Digital World?

Writing Metaphor Hacker · 4 August 2010 · Blog post

The piece uses the tortoise and hare fable to challenge simple contrasts between digital and traditional scholarship.

JISC Elevator might bring more responsiveness to research funding

Writing Researchity · 2 August 2010 · Blog post

This piece argues that JISC Elevator should let communities and developers jointly shape small, rapid, and usable research and development bids.

Harvard leads the way on building institutional academic communities

Writing Researchity · 29 July 2010 · Blog post

This piece presents Harvard OpenScholar as a model for institutional academic communities and argues that cross-institutional federation should follow.

How researchers use Web 2.0

Writing Researchity · 14 July 2010 · Blog post

This piece summarises evidence that researchers rarely use Web 2.0 services and argues that institutions should support experimentation without centralising it.

Friend or FOAF: The Building Blocks of Content and Identity Federation

Writing Researchity · 12 July 2010 · Blog post

This explainer surveys the protocols, services, institutions, and implementations that support federated scholarly content and identity.

How an unconference schedule is made #thatcamp

Writing techczech.net · 12 July 2010 · Blog post

The piece presents photographs of participants creating the schedule for THATCamp London 2010.

links for 2010-07-09

Writing techczech.net · 10 July 2010 · Blog post

The digest collects digital humanities research tools, open scholarship resources, text-to-speech services, and educational media.

links for 2010-07-08

Writing techczech.net · 9 July 2010 · Blog post

The digest collects tools and standards for text analysis, federated social networking, data portability, and digital humanities research.

links for 2010-07-07

Writing techczech.net · 8 July 2010 · Blog post

The digest collects digital humanities tools, archives, research resources, social platforms, and materials associated with THATCamp London.

Toward a Federated Academic Identity

Writing Researchity · 8 July 2010 · Blog post

This piece proposes a federated academic identity that joins sign-on, profiles, scholarly outputs, social connections, privacy controls, and professional review across services.

Notes from session at THATCamp London - 6 July 2010

Writing Researchity · 6 July 2010 · Blog post

This note directs readers to a collaborative document from a THATCamp London session on social tools for participatory research.

Twitter Posts from THATCamp 2010 discussion group

Writing Researchity · 6 July 2010 · Blog post

This digest collects Twitter posts from a THATCamp discussion about social tools, participatory research, and digital humanities infrastructure.

Research Swarm - An Interesting Metaphor

Writing Researchity · 5 July 2010 · Blog post

This note points to a presentation that uses swarm metaphors to describe research practice.

Researchity: An Idea for a Research Community

Writing Researchity · 5 July 2010 · Blog post

This piece proposes an online community where practitioners, researchers, and funders jointly formulate questions, conduct research, and share results.

CADAAD - Conference on Discourse Analysis

Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 15 December 2005 · Blog post

The post announces the first CADAAD conference and its call for papers.

Online scholarship

Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 December 2005 · Blog post

The post argues that rigorous narrative scholarship can appear online and address popular culture without institutional approval of the subject.

Anthropology.net | Beyond bones & stones

Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2005 · Blog post

The post recommends an online anthropology community as a model for a similar resource on metaphor and cognitive linguistics.

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