In a very special episode, I have a lengthy discussion with Jonathan Vickery (School of Creative Arts, University of Warwick) about his life, research and thoughts on publication. While we touch on his recent article for Exchanges (Critical Reflections on Universities, Publishing, and the Early Career Experience), Jonathan expands to consider the challenges facing higher education, research students and early career researchers as we reach an era of major change in publication praxis. Touching on ideas of knowledge economy, academic enterprise and collaboration vs competition in the academy, Jonathan offers a beautiful companion to both his article and discussions hosted at the Institute of Advanced Study. Nevertheless, there is time as always to offer some practical advice and guidance for academic authors approaching their first or earliest research publications.

You can read Jonathan’s Article here: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1583

Our thanks to Warwick's School of Arts for the use of their podcasting suite to record this episode.

Timecodes

00:00 – Start

00:44 – Introductions

03:11 – Centre for Policy Studies & IAS Seminars

06:10 – AI, education and publication transitions

11:53 – Adapting to feedback and interdisciplinarity

16:06 – A whole (new) world of knowledge production

21:18 – Upskilling research students for future publication trends

27:22 – Academics as knowledge workers

30:30 – Core messages of the Exchanges paper

32:30 – Power dynamics and knowledge economy actors

35:30 – The (local) roads not taken & barriers to publishing change

40:58 – Past personal publishing experiences

47:12 – Entering into the republic of knowledge

57:10 – Advice for new academic authors

59:18– Outro (end)