scholarly journals A Current View of the Thesis by Publication in the Humanities and Social Sciences

10.28945/3983 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Mason ◽  
Margaret K Merga
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Current View ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Research Students ◽  
Structural Insights

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to further our collective understanding of the practicalities and possibilities of the Thesis by Publication (TBP) in the disciplinary context of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) in Australia. Background: Recent times have seen an increasing pressure for publication during candidature in Australian universities for a range of strategic goals that are responsive to the current academic environment. Completing a thesis by publication (TBP) can further these goals, and, while this approach is no longer new, relatively little is known about its application in the context of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). Methodology: We performed an analysis of recently conferred TBPs to gain insights into the prevalence of the model in HSS, and to identify the number and nature of publications typically included in this context. Contribution: Our findings can further our collective understanding of the practicalities and possibilities of the thesis by publication in this disciplinary context, providing valuable insights for current and prospective research candidates in this area. Findings: An average of 4.5 papers are included in TBPs, although there is wide range in the number and nature of papers. Of interest is the inclusion of scholarly works that are unpublished, or where the candidate is not the first author. There appears to be a heavy reliance on traditional types of scholarly publications, namely journal articles and conference proceedings. Recommendations for Practitioners: Among the recommendations made, we argue for increased visibility of the TBP model by institutions to provide structural insights to candidates to assist them in the development of their thesis. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers are encouraged to further contribute to the debates that arise from this paper, to help in the development of guidelines regarding what is appropriate for inclusion in the TBP, and how to best facilitate the development of research students. Impact on Society: This paper illustrates the current status of the relatively new TBP in the HSS context and makes a contribution to a range of pertinent contemporary academic debates such as authorship during candidature. Future Research: This paper presents a range of opportunities for further research, including investigating the characteristics of universities that effectively foster the inclusion of publications in the HSS doctoral thesis.

scholarly journals Discussing the Use of Complexity Theory in Engineering Management: Implications for Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10629
Author(s):  
Gianpaolo Abatecola ◽  
Alberto Surace
Keyword(s):  
New Product Development ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
New Product ◽  
Engineering Management ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Wide Range

What is the state-of-the-art literature regarding the adoption of the complexity theory (CT) in engineering management (EM)? What implications can be derived for future research and practices concerning sustainability issues? In this conceptual article, we critically discuss the current status of complexity research in EM. In this regard, we use IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, because it is currently considered the leading journal in EM, and is as a reliable, heuristic proxy. From this journal, we analyze 38 representative publications on the topic published since 2000, and extrapolated through a rigorous keyword-based article search. In particular, we show that: (1) the adoption of CT has been associated with a wide range of key themes in EM, such as new product development, supply chain, and project management. (2) The adoption of CT has been witnessed in an increasing amount of publications, with a focus on conceptual modeling based on fuzzy logics, stochastic, or agent-based modeling prevailing. (3) Many key features of CT seem to be quite clearly observable in our dataset, with modeling and optimizing decision making, under uncertainty, as the dominant theme. However, only a limited number of studies appear to formally adhere to CT, to explain the different EM issues investigated. Thus, we derive various implications for EM research (concerning the research in and practice on sustainability issues).

Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An A-Z of key concepts

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Concepts

Research Methods in the Social Sciences features chapters that cover a wide range of concepts, methods, and theories. Each chapter begins with an introduction to a method, using real-world examples from a wide range of academic disciplines, before discussing the benefits and limitations of the approach, its current status in academic practice, and finally providing tips and advice on when and how to apply the method in research. The text covers both well-established concepts and emerging ideas, such as big data and network analysis, for qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Ovid

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-91
Author(s):  
Francesca K.A. Martelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Environmental Narratives ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

Abstract In this volume, Francesca Martelli outlines some of the main contours of recent, current and future research on Ovid. Her study looks back to the rehabilitation of Ovid’s oeuvre in the 1980s, and considers the post-modern aesthetic prerogatives and post-structuralist theoretical concerns that drove the critical recuperation of his poetry throughout that decade and in the decades that followed. But it also looks forward, by considering how the themes of this poet’s oeuvre answer to a variety of new materialist concerns that are now gaining currency in the humanities and social sciences. It highlights the ecopoetic sensibility of the Metamorphoses, for example, and unpacks the environmental narratives that this poem yields when read in dialogue with the discourses of critical posthumanism. And it closes by considering the hauntological aesthetics of Ovid’s exile poetry as a comment on the effects of the principate on time, space, media, and art.

scholarly journals Public engagement by researchers of different disciplines in Singapore: A qualitative comparison of macro- and meso-level concerns

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley S. Ho ◽  
Jiemin Looi ◽  
Yan Wah Leung ◽  
Tong Jee Goh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Qualitative Comparison ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

Guided by neo-institutional theory, this study compares how researchers from science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines differ from researchers from the arts, humanities, and social sciences fields in terms of how macro- and meso-level concerns shaped their willingness to conduct public engagement. Focus group discussions conducted among researchers based in Singapore revealed that science, technology, engineering, and math and arts, humanities, and social sciences researchers held different macro-level concerns. Particularly, science, technology, engineering, and math researchers raised more concerns about media misrepresentation, while arts, humanities, and social sciences researchers were more concerned about receiving political repercussions and public backlash. With regard to meso-level considerations, researchers from all disciplines cited similar institutional constraints for public engagement; however they possessed varying public engagement competencies and held differing perceptions of their social duty to engage the public. Hence, researchers of different disciplines desired different kinds of media training. Policy and managerial implications as well as directions for future research were provided.

Shakespeare, Milton, and the Humanities at mit in Its Foundational Period

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Dayton Haskin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Over Time

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s foundational decision not to teach Latin and Greek opened a vast curricular space for the specialized study of scientific and technological subjects and also for what are now called humanities and social sciences. A printed document headed “English, 1868–69” sets forth mit’s plan for a required four-year curriculum in which the professor of English would lecture on a wide range of subjects in the vernacular, from political economy and law, to history and philosophy, to language and literature. This essay traces the effects of a residual hostility against the “dead languages” that informed the teaching of classic English literature, which evinces a steady diminishment of the place of the humanities over time. Climactically, the essay explores a countervailing English examination given by a junior instructor that shows how the scientific and humanities curricula might have been made to work in concert.

scholarly journals ‘Story’ — An English cultural keyword and a key interpretive tool of Anglo culture

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wierzbicka
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Basic Principle ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Human Universals ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Semantic Domains

This paper shows that story is an English cultural keyword and a key interpretive tool of modern Anglo culture and that it is linked with a family of concepts which have no semantic equivalents in other languages and are unique conceptual artefacts of Anglo culture. It argues that if we can pinpoint these concepts we can also pinpoint the shared values and assumptions reflected in them. It shows that this can be done with the help of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) methodology developed over many years by the author and her colleague Cliff Goddard — a methodology which has been previously applied effectively to many other semantic domains, across a wide range of languages. Further, the paper argues that because the uniqueness and centrality of the English story has until now gone unnoticed, many semantic components associated with it have been projected onto other languages, which has lead to the positing of spurious human universals and to claims such as “story is a basic principle of mind”. The paper draws attention to the fact that a unique English cultural keyword (story) has played a significant role in the “narrative turn” in the humanities and social sciences, and discusses some of the implications of this fact.

scholarly journals Journal transition to an Open Access platform

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne ◽  
Alison Klevnäs ◽  
Sophie Bergerbrant ◽  
Isak Hyltén-Cavallius ◽  
Per Pippin Aspaas
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
National Library ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

The National Library of Sweden recently launched an Open Journal Systems-based platform for Swedish Open Access journals, known as Publicera (publicera.kb.se). So far, three peer-reviewed journals from the humanities and social sciences have completed their transition onto the platform. In this episode, the editors of the journals describe the rationale behind the transition process and reflect upon the economics, workflows, technicalities and not least the long-term strategic goals of their journals in an international open science landscape. The journals are Current Swedish Archaeology (founded 1993), Kulturella Perspektiv: Svensk etnologisk tidskrift (i.e., Swedish journal of ethnology, founded 1992), and Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap (Journal of literary studies, founded 1971). The four interviewees are editors of the three journals. First published online: December 9, 2021.

Perspectives on modelling micropollutants in wastewater treatment plants

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 448-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludiwine Clouzot ◽  
Jean-Marc Choubert ◽  
Frédéric Cloutier ◽  
Rajeev Goel ◽  
Nancy G. Love ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Transformation Products ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Receiving Waters ◽  
The Impact

Models for predicting the fate of micropollutants (MPs) in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have been developed to provide engineers and decision-makers with tools that they can use to improve their understanding of, and evaluate how to optimize, the removal of MPs and determine their impact on the receiving waters. This paper provides an overview of such models, and discusses the impact of regulation, engineering practice and research on model development. A review of the current status of MP models reveals that a single model cannot represent the wide range of MPs that are present in wastewaters today, and that it is important to start considering classes of MPs based on their chemical structure or ecotoxicological effect, rather than the individual molecules. This paper identifies potential future research areas that comprise (i) considering transformation products in MP removal analysis, (ii) addressing advancements in WWTP treatment technologies, (iii) making use of common approaches to data acquisition for model calibration and (iv) integrating ecotoxicological effects of MPs in receiving waters.

Leanness assessment: a literature review

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 1115-1160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy ◽  
Anand Gurumurthy
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Lean Implementation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Lean Transformation ◽  
Conference Papers ◽  
Level Monitoring

Purpose Assessing the outcome of lean transformation journey has been of interest to both researchers and practitioners. Various qualitative and quantitative assessment methodologies have been proposed in literature to track and measure the degree of leanness attained. The purpose of this paper is to understand the evolution of this leanness assessment literature over different attributes and identify gaps for future research. Design/methodology/approach A detailed literature review of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers addressing leanness assessment was performed. Content analysis methodology involving a four-step process suggested by Mayring (2004) was adopted for this study. Findings The number of studies in literature on leanness assessment is low when compared to that in the area of lean implementation. Assessment methodologies developed are of wide range, varying from simple qualitative checklist to complex quantitative mathematical models. Following the trend of lean implementation literature, lean thinking assessment literature is also getting transformed from process-level monitoring to enterprise-level monitoring. Finally, based on this review, a simplified leanness assessment framework is proposed for future validation. Research limitations/implications Only peer-reviewed journals and conference papers were analyzed, while excluding the manuals, reports, and white papers from practice. Clustering of leanness assessment literature revealed that future studies in this domain would fall into two major categories, namely manufacturing leanness assessment and service leanness assessment. Practical implications Practitioners can use this review study to choose a suitable methodology for assessing the leanness attained in their organization by controlling for the structural attributes identified. Originality/value This is the first paper to review the topic “leanness assessment.” The review analyzes the entire literature available on leanness assessment to summarize its current status and identify potential future directions.

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