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In my last post, I wrote about co-authoring. I want to continue thinking on this topic by talking about something we hear about less often: how co-authorship tends to be a gendered phenomenon. You may recall that in my last post I shared with you the story of a male client who was co-authoring…
Read MoreI started working with a client in the middle of last year who had a writing ‘problem’. He’d been publishing consistently, and publishing in great outlets. Nothing wrong there. But, for someone in the social sciences, he had a disproportionate number of co-authored papers compared with sole authored ones. And his senior colleagues…
Read MoreI was sitting in on a conversation with a group of ECRs this week, all sharing their anxieties and concerns about their research careers. I could relate to all those worries and what ifs, and it felt like only yesterday I was at the coal face of life as a postdoc. One question posed…
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