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How to Edit and Manage a Successful Scholarly Journal
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
AvIain Hay,Gareth Butlerm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 676 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Drawing on the insights and experiences of authors, editors, and publishing professionals across the humanities, arts and social sciences, this How to guide offers practical advice on how to successfully navigate scholarly journal editorial work.From outlining the motivations to take on editorial positions to charting the key responsibilities of an editor, this book outlines the steps to success for aspiring editors. Authors delve into the role and importance of scholarly journal editing in the contemporary academic landscape, providing guidance on the peer review process, how to manage editorial boards, and the ethical considerations of publishing. Consideration is also given to understanding and customizing manuscript management systems, how to navigate emerging publishing trends, and strategies for amplifying the impact of your journal beyond metrics. Expert authors indicate how to manage global shifts in knowledge production and journal geopolitics, emphasizing the ways editors can make a difference to society and practice.This How to guide is an engaging resource for both seasoned editors wishing to reflect on their practices and aspiring editors taking their first steps towards this form of scholarly leadership. It is also beneficial to early career academics and academic publishing professionals looking to successfully navigate scholarly journal editorial work.
How to Get Published in the Best Tourism Journals
AvChris Cooper,C. M. Hall
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 949 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Drawing on a wealth of knowledge and experience from leading tourism academics and journal editors, this practical How To guide offers clear-sighted advice on how to craft a high-quality paper in terms of contribution, positioning and submission. Accessible and comprehensive, it demystifies the process of getting published in the top tourism journals.This insightful book begins by mapping out the tourism publishing landscape, before delving into the various methods of building a refereed journal paper and navigating tourism publishers. Chapters dissect contemporary publishing issues, including gender inequality, ethics and integrity, and the dominance of English language publishing. Finally, contributors outline the essential role of publishing in shaping an academic career in tourism, especially in securing jobs, obtaining grant funding and creating pathways for career progression.How to Get Published in the Best Tourism Journals offers an insider perspective and practical advice while posing questions about the future of tourism publishing in the light of developments such as AI and Open Access. It will prove an essential resource to enhance journal publication success for tourism PhD students, as well as tourism academics at all career stages.
How To Include Employability in the Law School
AvAmanda Millmore
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 912 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This accessible How To Guide provides practical guidance on how to successfully include employability into the law school. Innovative ideas are shared on how to establish effective independent employability initiatives and embed employability within the law curriculum itself.Bringing together a team of highly experienced legal educators, this book focuses on providing hands-on tips and advice for both new and seasoned teachers. Contributors present a diverse range of case studies, from small employability initiatives within law modules to authentic methods of teaching and assessment that mimic the workplace. Looking beyond employability solely in the legal sector, they explore how to support the development of students’ transferable skills and attributes. The book also highlights important developments in legal education such as including employability considerations in academic tutoring and targeting support towards underrepresented groups of students.How to Include Employability in the Law School will prove an invaluable guide for legal educators seeking to enhance their teaching. It will also be an important resource for educational developers, providing practical examples of successful employability initiatives tailored to their educational context.
How To Master English as a Multilingual
A Guide for Students, Lawyers, and Professionals
AvShai Dothan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 292 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Based on years of experience teaching English to non-native speakers, this insightful How To guide describes not only the particular challenges that multilinguals face compared to native English speakers but also the unique benefits of working in multiple languages.Throughout this engaging and practical book, Shai Dothan explores the mastery of the English language, reflecting on the common problem of perfecting your English whilst also practicing and refining other languages. This book serves as a guide to improving writing styles and presentation skills, especially of non-native English speakers by providing techniques for improved public speaking, reading, and writing. With an accessible approach, chapters teach a wide range of useful skills including how to excel in exams, publish in multiple languages, and develop your ‘inner ear’.Designed for multilinguals who wish to improve their English, this guide will be an invaluable and invigorating resource for students and researchers who are seeking to hone their English language skills. It can be used to accompany English language courses in an academic or professional setting and can also be read individually as a self-help book. Researchers, students, and professionals working in the field of law will find the book particularly relevant.
How to Account for Trauma and Emotions in Law Teaching
AvMallika Kaur,Lindsay M. Harris
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 540 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Subverting the narrative that the legal profession must be austere and controlled, this prescient How To guide addresses the crucial need for holistic, trauma-centered law teaching. It advocates for a healthier, more inclusive profession by identifying strategies to engage, and even encourage, emotions within legal education.Proponents of trauma-centered pedagogy, co-editors Mallika Kaur and Lindsay M. Harris bring together a diverse set of legal academics from a range of subject areas to examine the need for trauma-centered pedagogy. Diverse subject matter experts, clinical and non-clinical, critically analyse a multitude of educational techniques within the law classroom, including the use of violent imagery, simulation, and the Socratic method. Chapters explore pedagogical methods that consider the emotional responses of the professor and student, advocating for more attentive and sensitive methods of teaching law. Courses which address stereotypically emotive topics such as domestic violence law are considered along with courses usually deemed non-emotional such as civil procedure.How to Account for Trauma and Emotions in Law Teaching is a vital reference point for legal educators who aim to create meaningful spaces for engagement within legal training. Ultimately, it proves a thought-provoking read for lawyers and law students, as well as trauma professionals and those working with the legal system.
How to Conduct and Publish High-Quality Research in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
AvNathan A. Bowling,Mindy K. Shossm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 379 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This How to guide presents expert guidance on effectively conducting research in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology. Distinguished authors address topics encompassing all stages of the research process, using practical examples and real-life experiences.Providing concrete and actionable advice, this book includes insights from influential researchers and esteemed journal editorial board members within I-O psychology. It equips the reader with specific guidance on building a research pipeline, collaborating with others, and conducting interdisciplinary work. Chapters explore planning a compelling research project, leveraging cutting-edge research methodologies, followed by effectively writing, submitting, and revising a manuscript. They also outline key topics such as qualitative research, crowdsourcing, ethics and promoting one’s research. This How to guide is an essential resource for those conducting research in I-O psychology, organizational behavior, and human resource management. It is also an informative read for scholars and students of business and management and organizational and occupational psychology.
How to Design and Develop a Business Research Project
Demystifying Academic Research for Business Professionals
AvBart Cambré,Karen Elliottm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 709 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Through a fascinating exploration of the advantages and pitfalls of business research methods, this essential book encourages the reader to make well-informed decisions in an often fast-paced environment. It sets out key rules and procedures to ultimately improve the accuracy and authenticity of research ventures.Providing crucial insight from highly regarded business professionals, this innovative book offers an illustrative guide to aid practitioners in the following:Designing and evaluating business research on its reliability, validity, and rigour.Understanding the utilization of data and digital technologies in research projects.Fully grasping research terminology and employing a succinct research template in practical contexts.How to Design and Develop a Business Research Project will be vital for business and management professionals seeking to further develop strategies and collaborative research skills within the sector. It will additionally be highly beneficial for academics striving to grasp the context and mindset of business and management research.
How to Enhance Your Research
100 Practical Tips for Academics
AvDon J. Webber
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
507 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Accessible in its style, yet comprehensive in content, this groundbreaking book provides a wealth of advice on how academics can enhance their research practices. It also highlights the fundamental role of research leaders and how their support can prove invaluable to academics in improving their research methodology. Don Webber expertly compiles responses from different research environments and practices across a range of universities, succinctly summarising those that achieve better quality research output. Highlighting collective practices as well as individual ones, he further illustrates the responsibilities placed upon academics for their own research alongside those of their peers and how these can have considerable mutual benefits. This invigorating read will be an excellent resource for new academics who wish to learn best practice and experienced academics who may have lost their way and are wanting to get their research back on track. Research leaders who wish to have a high performing department will find this book insightful in gaining ideas on how to enable their colleagues to achieve their full potential.
How to Lead Academic Departments Successfully
AvAdam Lindgreen,Alan Irwinm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
636 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This book challenges this myth and presents a way to deal with the many challenges of academic leadership, from managing departments, research groups and teams to managing tensions between research and teaching. The book is a practical and stimulating guide to different pathways to successful academic leadership, both in personal and organizational terms.Including reflections and advice from experienced leaders, this book provides ideas and guidance to help current and aspiring leaders increase their own efficiency and effectiveness across the following areas:Dealing with conflictEngendering team spiritEnsuring diversity and inclusionLeading change in business schoolsLeading research groupsCreating a triple crown business schoolCollaborating with other disciplines and practitioners.An experienced group of contributors reflects on their own successes and failures to shine new light on academic leadership to support your own sense of success as a practicing or aspiring departmental head. We also hope that this book will be instructive for those who simply want to understand how this crucial aspect of academic life operates.
How to Become an Effective Journal Editor in Business and Management
A Guide to Developing Authors
AvKathy Lund Dean
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 776 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This timely guide provides detailed advice to help editors become more effective at aiding their authors’ scholarly development and creating ethical, values-based manuscript assessment processes. A key book for journal editors at any stage in their career, it sheds light on tried-and-true strategies for growing their editorial toolkit. Using specific real-world examples, Kathy Lund Dean encourages editors confidence in both practice and policy by learning foundational editorial skills. She draws upon 20 years of editorial experience to share crucial tips for all stages of the editorial process, from the identification of values to boosting journal visibility. She ultimately dispels the common assumption that journal editing merely involves ensuring author conformity to style, instead showing how effective journal editors must possess a dynamic mix of disciplinary expertise, constructive critique, and emotional intelligence to coax the best manuscripts from their authors. How to Become an Effective Journal Editor in Business and Management is vital for scholars who are considering an editorial role, particularly those focusing on business and management, leadership and education.. Current journal editors will also benefit from its examination of ethics, new resource identification and potentially difficult situations.
How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography
Theory, Praxis, and Shaping our Future
AvGuo Chen,LaToya E. Eaves
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 112 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Responding to increasing interest in fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) in geography, Guo Chen and LaToya E. Eaves lead a rich volume of three parts from over 40 authors to represent cutting-edge scholarship and real-world examples from leading geographers, diverse intellectuals, and advocates from various subdisciplinary fields and interconnected world regions.Examining the foundations of why DEIJ matters in geography, this book engages readers in historical and empirical facts and a number of epistemic interventions from Black, Latinx, Indigenous and Asian-American geographies, as well as Women of Colour, queer, trans, and disabled geographers. It also provides theory-informed, yet hands-on guidance on how to foster DEIJ across academia, through geography unit leadership, school geography, graduate students, undergraduate teaching, and mentorship for safe and inclusive fieldwork. Ultimately, this book envisions the future of geographical knowledge-making with most recent examples about how to embrace DEIJ in a wide range of fields, including mapping and geographic information systems (GIS), physical geography and environmental science, radical geography, human geography, and urban geography.How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography is an important read for students, researchers and academics in all subdisciplines of geography, across human, environmental, and physical geography, regional geography, geographic methods, and geographical education, as well as those interested in feminist geography, decolonial and anti-racist geography, and critical geography approaches. The book is also beneficial to practitioners and policymakers aiming to foster DEIJ in higher education in the social sciences, natural sciences, arts and humanities.
How to Manage International Multidisciplinary Research Projects
AvLinda Hantrais
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
407 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The combination of global financial, health and climate crises in the 21st century brought both threats and opportunities for the international research community. Today, scientists are being actively encouraged to collaborate on an unprecedented scale across cultural and disciplinary boundaries to find and deliver solutions to these societal challenges. This insightful How to guide is expertly crafted to assist mid-career academic and non-academic researchers in preparing for new and innovative ways of working in international multidisciplinary environments. Drawing on illustrative case studies by experienced researchers, the guide aims to improve understanding of, and responses to, the multifaceted challenges involved in managing an ever more complex research process, from applications for funding, team building, research design and methods, to engagement with diverse stakeholders, internal and external communications and dissemination. The book offers project managers, coordinators and team members specialised advice on developing strategies to bridge what are often deep-seated disciplinary and cultural divides.By demonstrating how to implement effective integrated approaches to the design and delivery of high-quality, high-value research across disciplines, sectors, and societies, this engaging How to guide will be an essential resource for career researchers seeking lessons from experienced managers of international multidisciplinary research projects.
How to Use Digital Learning with Confidence and Creativity
A Practical Introduction
AvGearóid Ó Súilleabháin,Donna Lanclosm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 199 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
How to Use Digital Learning with Confidence and Creativity is an accessible and practical guide to key topics in the field of digital learning. It offers advice and insights not just about core digital learning platforms and tools but about a range of ethical, pedagogical, ideological, and strategic challenges arising at the intersection of digital technology and teaching practice.This How to guide will help readers develop and deepen their understanding of how to support, research and engage with learning and learners in the digital age. Divided into three key sections, it offers valuable and practical guidance and perspectives about technical tools and systems, conceptual frameworks and theoretical structures and the integration of theory, technology and practice in real world teaching and learning contexts. The book brings together contributions from experienced instructional designers, learning technologists, teacher-scholars, and educational leaders, ensuring that while the content is accessible, it is also grounded in the real and dynamic world of contemporary digital learning.This is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of digital learning, innovation and technology in education, educational psychology and pedagogy, as well as academics and education leaders working to develop approaches to and provide strategic leadership in this complex and constantly-evolving area.
How to Improve Your Teaching of Entrepreneurship
AvColin Jones
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 316 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This indispensable guide enables the reader to develop confidence and capacity in understanding the fundamentals of entrepreneurship education. Colin Jones provides support for those seeking continuous pedagogical development, and examines realistic solutions to contemporary educator challenges, including adapting to individual student learning contexts and designing unique learning tasks. Key Features:Outlines a clear argument and process for educator self-improvementCovers essential scholarship drawn from the learning sciences and teaching and learning literatureAcknowledges the complexity of the psychology of learning, while providing empirically tested techniques for knowledge retention and active learningAids in the application of several essential educational processes, such as constructive alignment, active learning, authentic assessment, and chunking How to Improve Your Teaching of Entrepreneurship is a crucial resource for academic instructors aspiring to take concrete steps to improve their teaching of entrepreneurship in all contexts. It is additionally beneficial to any educator hoping to explore a variety of tried and tested teaching methods.
How to do Social Science that Matters
AvJerzy Kociatkiewicz,Monika Kostera
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 590 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This holistic How to guide provides practical advice on conducting meaningful research within the social sciences, focusing on practices which are sensitive and bespoke. Mapping out the field and inviting further exploration, its insights reflect lessons from a wide variety of social science research projects, all of which have crucial epistemological and methodological consequences.Drawing on diverse experiences of international and interdisciplinary scholars, How to do Social Science that Matters presents methodology as a result of choices and stances related to values, context, and research interests. Each chapter focuses on one particular perspective, considering relationships, systemic inequalities, mutual meanings, and heterodoxy. A vast range of techniques are employed to conceptualise meaningful research methods, from ethnographies to poetry. Ultimately, this How To guide foregrounds the importance of impactful social science in peacemaking and building understanding.Centring a truly innovative perspective on social science analysis, this book is a crucial resource for students and scholars of management, organisation studies and research methods. It also appeals to those across the social sciences who wish to learn more about crafting purposeful and sensitive methodology.
How to Enable Engagement Between Universities and Business
A Guide for Building Relationships
AvKathy Daniels,Saskia L. Hansen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 461 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This How to guide explores practical ways to create and develop a positive relationship between universities and businesses, showcasing diverse and innovative forms of collaboration. Kathy Daniels and Saskia Loer Hansen bring together expert insights from across the world to demonstrate that business engagement is a wide-ranging and essential part of the modern university.Recognising that universities and businesses are complex and varied organisations, contributing authors present initiatives tailored to their different agendas and ways of operating. They use real-world case studies to identify successful ways to approach a university–business relationship, and investigate common mistakes. Chapters look beyond research-based engagement strategies to cover ideas including curriculum co-development, executive education, and degree apprenticeships. The book highlights in particular the opportunities that relationships between small- and medium-sized enterprises and universities can bring.How to Enable Engagement Between Universities and Business is an essential resource for academics and university staff involved in business engagement and career development. It is also an important read for industry professionals responsible for graduate recruitment, apprenticeships, and research opportunities.
How to Incorporate Equity and Justice in Your Teaching
AvDon C. Sawyer,JT Torresm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 594 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
How to Incorporate Equity and Justice in Your Teaching advocates for radical inclusivity in the contemporary social science classroom. Including a range of adaptable course materials, this forward-thinking book will enable instructors working at a range of levels to integrate equity and social justice into their practice.Editors Don C. Sawyer III, JT Torres and Suzanne S. Hudd encourage instructors to broaden their understanding of the institutional and societal contexts in which their classes are taught, as well as the demographic makeup of their student bodies. The book further suggests flexible frameworks and strategies for effectively engaging in socially just pedagogical activities, where multiple perspectives are empowered and classroom community is forged. It models a reflective, lifelong approach towards equity; one that engenders a temperament that can readily be applied outside of the classroom to facilitate wider social justice initiatives in the workplace and in society at large.A crucial read for academics, scholars and researchers in higher education and teaching methods in the social sciences, this book will also be a blueprint for increasing inclusivity in the classroom, benefitting instructors beginning their diversity equity and inclusivity training, as well as institutional administrators who oversee faculty programming.
How to Develop Entrepreneurial Graduates, Ideas and Ventures
Designing an Imaginative Entrepreneurship Program
AvKath Penaluna,Colin Jonesm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
393 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Charged with developing learning, teaching and assessment practices that go beyond delivering discipline-specific subject knowledge, the demands on entrepreneurial educators have increased in recent decades. This guide will help educators develop more entrepreneurial graduates by demonstrating how they can equip learners with key competencies such as team working, creativity, problem solving, and opportunity recognition. This engaging How to Guide shares the journeys of educators working within different contexts to help the reader design an imaginative entrepreneurship program. Providing critical perspectives and observations that are both forward- looking and practice-led, each chapter offers a wide range of insights into the unique practices of some of the world’s leading educators in entrepreneurship, education and creativity. With a focus on the development of students and their ventures, educators at any level or discipline within higher education are invited to reflect upon and advance their own practices. Illustrating a vast range of contemporary practices in the field of entrepreneurial education, this compelling book will be an essential tool for any educator whose teaching incorporates entrepreneurship, enterprise, and creativity.
How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research
The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy
AvTim Vorley,Syahirah Abdul-Rahmanm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
522 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Increasingly, academics are finding that engaging with external stakeholders can be both fruitful in undertaking research and an effective way to impact policy. With insightful and practical advice from a diverse range of contributors, including academics, policy makers, civil servants and knowledge exchange professionals, this accessible book explores How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research.With a practical focus, this book combines an array of real-life experiences and insights from the perspectives of both academics and policy makers who are experienced in informing and impacting policy. The book comprehensively illustrates how academics can more effectively engage with policy makers through a range of interdisciplinary insights and case studies. The book explores the value of research for policy, as well as modes of engagement with policy for researchers across the various stages of their career.Providing practical insights to seize the opportunity of engaging policy makers in research, this innovative book will be an excellent resource for social science academics as well as policy makers looking to benefit from academic research insights. The book provides a better understanding of how the worlds of academics and policy makers can come together to realise greater policy impact from research expertise.
How to Get Published in the Best Management Journals
Third Edition
AvDavid J. Ketchen Jr,Timothy Clarkm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 261 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This revised and extended third edition of the highly successful How to Get Published in the Best Management Journals draws on a wealth of knowledge from leading scholars and journal editors to showcase the latest advice in securing publication in the world’s top management journals.Contributors expand on the impact of research, explain how to attract and retain co-authors and provide guidance for positioning research papers for publication within journals of various disciplines within the management field. They also delve into the intersection of management journal publishing and psychology, the ethics and integrity in the industry, and explore the nuances of special issues and open access publications. Chapters offering guidance on effectively developing the front end of your research paper, constructing a successful research portfolio and pipeline, and managing a career in business research have been added to this latest edition.Offering insider perspectives and candid advice, this How to guide is an essential read for business academics of all levels seeking to advance their career and expand their knowledge of the journal publication process. Academics across a broad range of fields, including entrepreneurship, strategic management, organizational behaviour, marketing, and international business will find this book invaluable.
How to Fast-track your Academic Career
A Guide for Mid-Career Scholars: Second Edition
AvAdam Lindgreen,C. A. Di Benedetto
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 903 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This thoroughly updated edition of a classic career guide closes the research-practitioner gap and carefully considers the obstacles faced by researchers pursuing an academic career. From applying for grants to supervising Ph.D. students, the book utilizes practical research and real experiences to illustrate how marketing scholars can strike a healthy working balance between teaching and research to find success in academia.Experienced scholars outline the key stages of building an effective and varied academic portfolio, incorporating pragmatic insights into generating ideas, drafting funding applications, and undertaking cross-disciplinary research. New chapters provide essential advice on determining both research and teaching quality and assembling promotion dossiers, offering fresh academic guidance grounded in important practical knowledge. Ultimately, the book highlights effective ways to maintain relevance and impact throughout one’s career. Providing a holistic view of current research culture, this cutting-edge book is important reading for early- to mid-career scholars. How to Fast-track your Academic Career is also a useful resource for recent graduates planning their careers in academia.
How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing
Techniques for Engaging Readers and Successfully Navigating the Writing and Publishing Processes: Second Edition
AvTimothy G Pollock
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 561 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Good writing skills and habits are critical for scholarly success. Every article is a story, and employing effective storytelling techniques enhances scholars’ abilities to share their insights and ideas, increasing the impact of their research.In this timely second edition, Tim Pollock draws on fiction and non-fiction writing tools and techniques to help academic authors enhance the clarity, presentation and flow of their scholarly work. With new chapters focusing on the intricacies of writing developmental reviews and dissertations, the second edition of How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing provides comprehensive discussions illustrating the structural and stylistic factors involved in effective storytelling and how to apply them in writing each section of an academic article. The second edition also expands on important topics such as managing the co-authoring, writing and review processes. This book is an invaluable resource for academics across business disciplines, particularly those in management-related sectors such as organizational behavior, organization theory, business and management history and corporate governance. It is also useful to those in adjacent social science disciplines such as sociology, psychology and economics.
How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing
Techniques for Engaging Readers and Successfully Navigating the Writing and Publishing Processes: Second Edition
AvTimothy G Pollock
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
450 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Good writing skills and habits are critical for scholarly success. Every article is a story, and employing effective storytelling techniques enhances scholars’ abilities to share their insights and ideas, increasing the impact of their research.In this timely second edition, Tim Pollock draws on fiction and non-fiction writing tools and techniques to help academic authors enhance the clarity, presentation and flow of their scholarly work. With new chapters focusing on the intricacies of writing developmental reviews and dissertations, the second edition of How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing provides comprehensive discussions illustrating the structural and stylistic factors involved in effective storytelling and how to apply them in writing each section of an academic article. The second edition also expands on important topics such as managing the co-authoring, writing and review processes. This book is an invaluable resource for academics across business disciplines, particularly those in management-related sectors such as organizational behavior, organization theory, business and management history and corporate governance. It is also useful to those in adjacent social science disciplines such as sociology, psychology and economics.
How to Embed Authenticity in Legal Assessments
Responding to Generative AI
AvVerona Ní Drisceoil,Jo Wilsonm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 401 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Against the backdrop of the challenges and opportunities presented by the advances in generative AI, this book combines a critical, yet practical, examination of the place of authenticity in legal assessment in higher education.Part I and Part II evaluates the ever-evolving concept of authenticity in, and for, assessment, examines the role of authenticity within the employability agenda and considers how law schools might respond to the advances in generative AI. Throughout, the authors deliberate current issues for legal education including assessment validity and the impact of AI and generative AI on student learning and cognitive function. Part III, drawing on 20 diverse legal assessment case studies from legal educators across the UK, presents examples of innovative and creative legal assessments and how these have been, or may be, adopted to respond to the advances in generative AI.How to Embed Authenticity in Legal Assessments is an essential read for legal educators and researchers interested in legal assessment and the future of legal education. It will also be beneficial for senior leadership teams seeking to integrate valid, fair, and innovative assessment design into their law curriculums.
How to Design, Write and Publish Qualitative Research for Insight and Impact
AvCharlotte Cloutier,Ann Langleym. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 725 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This book explores how authors can produce and communicate interesting, compelling and impactful qualitative research, providing practical guidance on how to develop novel and theoretically interesting insights sought after by academic journals. It outlines the key phases of the research process, from identifying research questions to achieving publication success, while considering the future trends likely to shape qualitative research in the coming years. Drawing on their extensive experience in publishing, reviewing and editing academic articles in the business and management field’s top journals, Charlotte Cloutier, Ann Langley and Kevin Corley outline how to best cultivate, craft and polish the novel theoretical insights embedded in qualitative data. They adopt a unique approach to the research process by analyzing prior exemplary work and addressing common mistakes revealed in editorial and review letters issued by the editorial teams of leading journals. The authors offer strategies to navigate the iterative nature of qualitative inquiry, as well as guidance and advice for consistently producing high-quality outputs. This book is an essential resource for business and management, public administration, psychology and sociology scholars looking to improve their qualitative research skills. It is also a crucial read for both novice and experienced qualitative researchers across the social sciences wishing to gain deeper insights on the topic.
How To Master English as a Multilingual
A Guide for Students, Lawyers, and Professionals
AvShai Dothan
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
372 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Based on years of experience teaching English to non-native speakers, this insightful How To guide describes not only the particular challenges that multilinguals face compared to native English speakers but also the unique benefits of working in multiple languages.Throughout this engaging and practical book, Shai Dothan explores the mastery of the English language, reflecting on the common problem of perfecting your English whilst also practicing and refining other languages. This book serves as a guide to improving writing styles and presentation skills, especially of non-native English speakers by providing techniques for improved public speaking, reading, and writing. With an accessible approach, chapters teach a wide range of useful skills including how to excel in exams, publish in multiple languages, and develop your ‘inner ear’.Designed for multilinguals who wish to improve their English, this guide will be an invaluable and invigorating resource for students and researchers who are seeking to hone their English language skills. It can be used to accompany English language courses in an academic or professional setting and can also be read individually as a self-help book. Researchers, students, and professionals working in the field of law will find the book particularly relevant.
How to Keep Your Research Project on Track
Insights from When Things Go Wrong: Second Edition
AvKeith Townsend,Mark N. Saunders
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 839 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Bringing together valuable insights from a range of research experts, PhD supervisors and examiners, this thoroughly revised second edition of How to Keep Your Research Project on Track details how to deal with the unexpected difficulties of research, and what to do when a project deviates from the plan. Keith Townsend and Mark N.K. Saunders give us essential insights for carrying out research, as well as developing resilience in academia.Key features of the second edition:Vignettes from experts who have had experience with difficult research projectsNine new chapters on topics such as the presence of AI generated content in research and the use of social mediaCrucial advice on each part of the research process, including writing proposals, gathering data, compiling analysis and undergoing peer reviewInsights into what can go wrong in research projects, for instance, issues with conflicting evidence and research study incentives, and how these can be addressed Engaging and accessible, this book is an important resource for early career scholars, PhD candidates and masters students. It will also provide more experienced academics with a fresh perspective on the research process.
How to Lead Academic Departments Successfully
Second Edition
AvAdam Lindgreen,Alan Irwinm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 298 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This timely second edition challenges this myth and presents a way to deal with the many challenges of academic leadership, from managing departments, research groups and teams to managing tensions between research and teaching. The book is a practical and stimulating guide to different pathways to successful academic leadership, both in personal and organizational terms.Including reflections and advice from experienced leaders, this book provides ideas and updated guidance to help current and aspiring leaders increase their own efficiency and effectiveness across the following areas:Dealing with conflictEngendering team spiritEnsuring diversity and inclusionLeading change in business schoolsLeading research groupsCreating a triple crown business schoolCollaborating with other disciplines and practitionersNEW! Sustainable leadershipNEW! DigitalisationAn experienced group of contributors reflects on their own successes and failures to shine new light on academic leadership to support your own sense of success as a practicing or aspiring departmental head. We also hope that this thoroughly revised second edition will be instructive for those who simply want to understand how this crucial aspect of academic life operates.
How to Read and Interpret University Rankings
AvEllen Boeren
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 479 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This informative book provides an accessible guide to understanding higher education rankings and the data informing them. Highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, Ellen Boeren illustrates the methodologies behind a variety of leading university league tables including QS, Times Higher Education and ShanghaiRanking.The author provides an in-depth discussion of the underlying data sources used by ranking compilers, presenting guidance on how to critically evaluate this information. She details the different indicators featured in university work, such as research, teaching, internationalisation, employment and industry. Chapters also investigate business school rankings, regional and domestic league tables and new alternative rankings investigating higher education's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals.This book is an essential reference for graduate students and researchers studying higher education, particularly those investigating quality assurance in higher education institutions. It is also an insightful guide for university leaders and administrators, as well as policymakers and rankings followers looking for a unique understanding of higher education data.
How to Write Differently
A Quest for Meaningful Academic Writing
AvMonika Kostera
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
408 kr
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Responding to the trend of formulaic writing in the academic community, How To Write Differently offers a refreshing approach to academic writing in a practical format.The book explores how, in order to write differently, an author needs to embrace complexity and alterity and write to be read. Highlighting the importance of bringing joy and enlightenment to readers rather than simply writing for the metrics, experienced contributors delve into the significance of poetry and idiom, writing from the heart and what to write about. Chapters also consider key practicalities such as, how to make an argument and not slide into reductionism? How to engage with literature without being dull and formulaic? How to describe important issues such as empirical research and insights? Finally, the book sheds light on the review process, where to publish, reflective referencing and how to revise your writing.Aiming to inspire academic writers and readers, while offering practical guidance, How to Write Differently will be a valuable resource for business and management researchers and students seeking to write in a new way.

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