Archive for the 'Potential papers' Category



Rumpus research

Published on April 24, 2020

Research question: β€˜In what ways is the Covid-19 pandemic changing understandings of the relationships between learning and fun?’ A limited case study of a research group in a UK university. We expect our findings to have implications beyond that group. Data collection using epistolary interviews (via email – one question per email, enabling thoughtful responses […]


Why reviewers/editors reject articles

Published on December 8, 2009

Notes from a workshop on ‘Writing for peer-reviewed journals’ run by Pat Thomson. Reasons why reviewers and editors say they reject articles: Lack of focus – saying everything, focusing on nothing, cramming too much in one article Not locating the contribution and the position – for a particular audience, in relation to wider debates. the […]


Journal impact

Published on December 7, 2009

I’ve spent the day looking at the impact factor of various journals. The ISI Web of Knowledge lists 1985 social science journals (according to a workshop I attended recently, only about 15% of education journals are in ISI). The ‘Annual Review of Psychology’ comes in top for 2008, with an annual impact factor of 16.217. […]


Writing for publication

Published on November 19, 2009

Researchers write all the time, writing is the means through which we work on and work out our ideas. We don’t just write up – we have not found a transparent truth which we then just put into words. Writing is a representation – we make choices and what we choose to write is a […]


Book proposal

Published on November 12, 2009

Kieron’s summary of the benefits offered by our current book proposal.


Palindrome Intermedia performance group

Published on August 22, 2006

You can see them in action at http://www.palindrome.de/ We had two performances by this group, who use motion tracking software and a host of other gadgetry to foreground the ways in which human conversation involves a host of other things beside words. Eye motions, body position, movement, they’re all involved. So sound and dance and […]