University Grants Commission (UGC), India’s higher education regulatory and funding agency, has recently removed over 4,000 journals of Indian origin from its list of approved journals for publishing. In 2017, the UGC had initiated its ‘white Read More
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ResearchGate continues to provide access to thousands of copyrighted articles, revealed a recent report by the Coalition for Responsible Sharing (CfRS). The coalition, which includes publishers such as Wiley and Elsevier, was formed in 2017 to Read More
It’s now three days after my viva and I’ve almost managed to mentally process the outcome. I passed, with no corrections. If you’re not familiar with how the doctoral examination process works, Read More
“Not only is it important to ask questions and find the answers, as a scientist I felt obligated to communicate with the world what we were learning.” Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions Read More
I sit here today, writing and writing. I am fully aware of my lack of blogging over the past few weeks and I fully understand why. I have decided to isolate myself whilst writing this, Read More
When I returned from my internship at the Scottish government, my main task was to complete the three findings chapters of my thesis. The purpose of the chapters was to explain the findings of the Read More
As we have come to the end of June, let us look back at all the exciting conversations that transpired in academia this month. The scholarly publishing world was buzzing with some of the most Read More
At the beginning of 2014, I realised I had chronic fatigue. Physically, I was almost unaffected, but cognitively, I could only go for about 40 minutes before I began to experience the sort of cognitive fatigue most Read More
After 10 months of tingly arms and legs, a bout of optic neuritis, unexplained tiredness and brain fogs, as well as doubting my own sanity—I was finally diagnosed with MS (multiple sclerosis). Even though this Read More
Last year, I felt like I’d just won the lottery (if the lottery involved seven years of graduate study and three cycles of churning out 100+ page job applications by the dozen). This year, I Read More