Beyond A4, part 1

By Ibrar Bhatt on May 6, 2015 • ( 2 Comments )

I enjoyed presenting and listening to the insights of others today at the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre’s Fourth Annual Spring Conference on ‘Getting Published’. My Prezi for the session is below:

The direct link to the Prezi is here:

http://prezi.com/odeeid-ab4lw/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Some tweets were sent out using the hashtag #BeyondA4 specifically for the session and on the regular conference hashtag of #WRSSDTC. Tweets are still ongoing, and here are some key ones from me and others (some of whom were not present at the event) which capture and further develop some of the ideas we discussed.

There are many disruptions facing academics’ work, writing practices and knowledge creating activities #beyondA4

— Ibrar Bhatt, PhD (@ibrar_bhatt) May 6, 2015

Academic publications are glossed & polished. But let’s not forget the messy, ephemeral & elided bits of work that went into them #beyondA4

— Ibrar Bhatt, PhD (@ibrar_bhatt) May 6, 2015

https://twitter.com/Bradford_Indie/status/595895011750850560

Is publishing #beyondA4 more important than pub in academic journals when research has practical implications, e.g. in schs? @ibrar_bhatt

— Katie Gathercole (@katieguacamole) May 6, 2015

https://twitter.com/Bradford_Indie/status/595896287997861888

Academia teaches us to focus – and that’s a good thing. But in focusing, we train our minds to ignore what’s outside the academy #beyondA4

— Ibrar Bhatt, PhD (@ibrar_bhatt) May 6, 2015

https://twitter.com/Maryamalmohamad/status/595925440537198592

Make your blog an academic honey pot; people will flock towards it to benefit from what you have to say, your insights, etc. #beyondA4

— Ibrar Bhatt, PhD (@ibrar_bhatt) May 6, 2015

#beyonda4 #wrssdtc – AW position your work in your field, understand audiences, translate carefully, – have an intellectual strategy ready

— Niki Reilly (@nikireilly) May 6, 2015

Interesting presentation by @ibrar_bhatt. I've been blogging and tweeting about my research, didn't realise I was publishing! #BeyondA4

— Muna Abdi (@Muna_Abdi_Phd) May 6, 2015

https://twitter.com/Bradford_Indie/status/595896702931984385

Andrew Webster (SATSU Uni of York): When publishing beyond academia know what terms are used elsewhere & use shared language. #wrdtc

— Katie Gathercole (@katieguacamole) May 6, 2015

Half-baked ideas should be recorded and can even be shared: eg. Darwin’s notes #beyondA4

— Ibrar Bhatt, PhD (@ibrar_bhatt) May 6, 2015

@katieguacamole: 'Throw your half baked hunches out there to collide with other people's ideas & experiences'. #wrdtc @ibrar_bhatt

— Katie Gathercole (@katieguacamole) May 6, 2015

The keynotes on the day were well connected to each other, and I highly recommend the other speakers’ talks which may be accessible via the White Rose DTC website.

In a later post (Beyond A4, part 2) I will upload an article which constitutes a ‘working paper’ on this topic.