So you want a chair for Christmas. Are you sure? A professorship comes with prestige, but appointments are opaque and there are other rewarding ways to cap off an academic career, says Ron Iphofen Ron Iphofen 12月 20日
The Facebook scandal won’t end the infuriating allure of academic social media Constant emails from the likes of Academia.edu and ResearchGate keep Ron Iphofen in a state of anxiety over what he may be missing Ron Iphofen 4月 5日
What lurks in ageing academics’ unvisited personal archives? As he bins decades-old lecture notes, Ron Iphofen wonders what unused but undiscarded relics populate scholars’ shelves, discs and drives Ron Iphofen 8月 11日
Safety is more important than privacy It’s time to use technology to detect potential threats and worry less about outdated ideas of privacy, says Ron Iphofen Ron Iphofen 4月 28日
Getting your citations in order Who loses out when a scholar fails to acknowledge earlier related work? Ron Iphofen on the evergreen virtues of desk research Ron Iphofen 1月 14日
NSA spirit? Ron Iphofen on monitoring university staff emails Ron Iphofen considers the policies, realities and ethical implications of monitoring university employees’ emails Ron Iphofen 9月 5日
Subject to contract Both supervisor and postgrad know where they stand if there's an agreement in place, says Ron Iphofen Ron Iphofen 11月 9日
