This is the text of a talk I gave at the 2018 RLUK conference in March at the British Library. There is a recording of the talk online.     I’m going to talk about open access, in the context of a neoliberalised academy, and about ways of thinking about open access that bring the…Continue reading An ethics of care: what kind of open access do we want?

Next month a second Radical Open Access conference will take place in Coventry, themed around an ‘ethics of care’. On the same day, there is a (very expensive) conference about open access policy called ‘Moving Towards Full Open Access in Higher Education‘ happening in London. I will be attending the first of these, and am…Continue reading Research and policy

  These are a few notes about my experience at OpenCon 2017. There are taken verbatim from the feedback form I submitted to the organisers; I was planning to write a longer piece immediately after the conference but I arrived home to the sad news that one of my beloved cats had passed away, so…Continue reading OpenCon 2017

The third and final year of my PhD is starting now, and I thought I’d share a few reflections on the process as I’ve experienced it. One thing that has surprised me is that I’ve not actually been as open with my own practices as I thought I would be. Of course, all publications I’ve…Continue reading A few reflections on a PhD so far

This is the text of a talk given at the conference ReCon: Publishing for Early Career Researchers – Immortalisation, Recognition & Metrics’, in Edinburgh on 30 June 2017, in the session entitled ‘Publishing’s Future: Disruption and Evolution within the Industry’. Abstract: The ways in which scholars exchange and share their work have evolved through pragmatic…Continue reading Against capital

The Higher Education and Research Bill 2016-17 is currently making its way through Parliament. It is now at the committee stage in the House of Commons, which means any interested parties may submit evidence to be considered by the committee of MPs. I’ve decided to do this and make a few suggestions in areas related…Continue reading Higher Education and Research Bill: submitting evidence

Updated June 2016 and June 2017 to add new information for Finland, on 23 August 2016 and 17 July 2018 with information for Canada, on 20 December 2016 with information for the Netherlands, on 21 September 2017 with additional information for the US, on 6 December 2017 with information for New Zealand/Aotearoa, Argentina, and Chile,…Continue reading Publicly available data on international journal subscription costs