Writing for publication
Getting work past desk rejection and through review, with particular attention to authors writing in English as an additional language.
AI in research practice
Where generative AI genuinely helps in research work, and where verification has to take over.
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Generative AI for novice researchers: a task-by-task guide
These tools are least safe exactly where you know least, which is an awkward property for something marketed to beginners. That asymmetry is what this guide is organised around.
15 August 2026 13 min read Read → -
Declaring AI use in a methods section: wording that survives peer review
Most disclosure statements fail in one of two directions: too vague to be checkable, or so detailed they imply the model did work it did not do. Both are avoidable.
12 August 2026 8 min read Read →
Metrics and publishing
What the indicators actually measure, and how they are misread in the decisions that matter most.
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What SJR actually measures — and why the quartile on your CV may mislead
A quartile is not a quality score. It is a rank within a field, derived from a weighted citation average, and the difference matters most in exactly the situations where people rely on it.
14 August 2026 9 min read Read → -
SSCI, SCIE, AHCI, ESCI: what your promotion committee actually counts
Three of these indexes are peers that differ by discipline. The fourth sits outside the Core Collection. Most confusion — and most career damage — comes from conflating those two facts.
13 August 2026 10 min read Read →
Teaching and learning
Practical consequences for course design, assessment, and feedback.