Call for papers – Towards a new normal in physiotherapy education
By responding to this global disruption, we are placed in a situation where we are having to rethink our approaches to physiotherapy education. All over the world physiotherapy educators are engaged in...
View ArticleLaunch of the Journal of Controversial Ideas
It sounds like the title of an Onion article but it’s real. The Journal of Controversial Ideas offers a forum for careful, rigorous, unpolemical discussion of issues that are widely considered...
View ArticleWeekly digest (07 May 2021)
This is an experiment that I’m going to try for a while. Sometimes I come across articles that I think are interesting and would like to share – with a short comment – but which don’t warrant a full...
View ArticleWhat is a ‘teacher’?
The role of the teacher is expanding into more diverse fields than ever before. Not only must the teacher have a strong foundation in their professional discipline but they are increasingly expected to...
View ArticleWeekly digest (14-18 June 2021)
This digest has an AI and machine learning focus because I’m preparing a presentation for the SAAHE conference next week, and my topic is Clinicians’ perceptions of the introduction of AI into clinical...
View ArticleResource: Internet Archive Scholar
This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century...
View ArticleThinking in public: A conversation with Tom Jesson
Tom Jesson is a physiotherapist, and self-employed researcher and writer based in Houston Texas, who I’ve wanted to speak to for a while. While I’ve always known Tom to be a thoughtful and careful...
View ArticleResearch is applied curiosity
I sometimes hear colleagues say that they’re ‘not researchers’ but after some probing it turns out that what they really mean is, they don’t love the process of conducting formal research as is often...
View ArticleWhy shouldn’t journals publish translations of articles alongside the English...
Update (14 April 2022): If you’re interested in the notion that something is lost when we default to English as the language of scientific communication, you may be interested in this reflective...
View ArticleOpenPhysio podcast: Considering the precariat
Earlier this month I finally managed to publish an episode of the OpenPhysio podcast that’s been on my to-do list for about a year. I’ve been wanting to get the journal podcast series up and running...
View ArticleWhy publish-or-perish? Why not, publish-and-prosper?
It’s weird to think of some of the things we take for granted in higher education. Surely one of the worst is to be taken in by the publish-or-perish mindset; the idea that, unless you publish you have...
View ArticleThe seductive appeal of measuring outcomes in edtech comparative studies
This is a presentation I gave as part of a SAAHE webinar on edtech research. I wanted to explore what I think is a problematic area of education research in general, and that’s especially common in...
View ArticleRejected AMEE abstract (oral presentation) | Is ‘being human’ enough?...
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. Introduction Identity is central to our understanding of the health professions, and much of professionaleducation revolves around this core...
View ArticleHow I used to get an overview of a new topic, compared to using ChatGPT
The other day I was in a meeting where participants were talking about different routes our institution offers towards a PhD, and I realised that I didn’t have a strong sense of the differences, and...
View ArticleWeekly digest (08-14 May 2023)
Using language models to write single-use apps George Veletsianos describes how he used ChatGPT to create a piece of software to solve a problem he faced during a research project. What are some of the...
View ArticleWeekly digest (15-21 May 2023)
I spent quite a bit of time this week working on this essay, where I present an overview of large language models (LLMs) through the lens of ChatGPT, and explore some of the implications of the...
View ArticleWeekly digest (05-11 Jun 2023)
AI bias and block boxes I’m getting tired of reading about bias and the black box nature of AI (even though I’ve been guilty of this myself). Human brains are biased. Human brains are block boxes. We...
View ArticleGenerative AI for researchers
Generative AI for researchers I’ve been collecting some bits and pieces on the use of generative AI for researchers, and thought I’d share a few resources that you may find useful. Blog posts about...
View ArticleArticle: CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models...
Pride, D., Cancellieri, M., & Knoth, P. (2023). CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question answering (arXiv:2307.04683). arXiv....
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