Governance | Leadership | Research
A weekly brief for higher education leaders and researchers examining governance, leadership and research in practice
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Is your university running just to stand still?
Universities can improve their research, reputation, international reach and student outcomes, yet remain in the same ranking position, or even drop. The reason is that their competitors are improving too. The Red Queen Effect helps explain why universities may need to run ever faster simply ...
Three Years to Become a Researcher, Three Days to Become a Leader
Academic leadership is often treated as the natural next step after professorial achievement. Yet the skills that make someone a successful researcher are not necessarily those needed to lead people, manage resources or guide an institution through change. This edition asks whether universities are doing ...
Change Will Never Be This Slow Again. Can Your Organisation Keep Up?
Today's pace of change feels relentless. Yet it may be the slowest we will ever experience. If that is true, the defining leadership challenge is no longer keeping up ourselves, but building organisations that can keep up with us. This edition explores why organisational adaptability, ...
Do we know the final destination for Open Access?
Open Access has transformed scholarly publishing. Today, millions of research articles are freely available that would once have been accessible only through subscriptions. If the goal is universal access to research, what happens to the millions of articles that remain behind paywalls? Perhaps it is ...
I started writing a job description but quickly realised I needed a framework
I recently had to create a job description but soon realised that the real task was not about defining individual roles but creating a coherent framework that explained what an academic career looks and how you progress from one level to the next. In this ...
Making scholarly publishing more transparent: State the publishing model
Every scholarly article is published using a particular publishing model, but how do we know what model was used for a given article? This edition argues that a simple addition to both the article and its metadata would improve transparency and provide much richer analysis ...