With the world in its current state, there is a wide interest in both how we preserve what is good in research systems and make necessary improvements. Ensuring sustainability and quality of support in the organisations and communities that make up the research landscape is crucial. But there are also deep problems in our communities Continue reading "The more things change, the more they need to…
Consider this yet another commitment to trying to write here a little more regularly. Lots of thinking has been going on but not much writing! At least not writing as I m going Three things colliding over the past few weeks have led me to want to try and get some ideas down. The first was Continue reading "Epistemic diversity and knowledge production"
This post was prompted by Donna Lanclos tweeting a link to a talk by Eamon Tewell: https://twitter.com/DonnaLanclos/status/992843570238377984 His talk, on the problems of deficit models chimed with me on issues of tacit knowledge. I m still noodling around an underpinning theory of knowledge for my work (blog post currently has spent nearly 12 months in the Continue reading "Thinking out loud:…
Three things come together to make this post. The first is the paper The 2.5% Commitment by David Lewis, which argues essentially for top slicing a percentage off library budgets to pay for shared infrastructures. There is much that I agree with in the paper, the need for resourcing infrastructure, the need for mechanisms to Continue reading "Against the 2.5% Commitment"