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Tag Archives: writing for publication
Mental health policy for nurses
Congratulations to RCN Mental Health Advisor Ian Hulatt for editing this new book, Mental health policy for nurses. This hits the shelves any day now, and I want to give it a plug via this post. Here is what the … Continue reading
More unwanted invitations
In a post I wrote in May I complained about academic spam, and particularly the endless receipt in my email inbox of unwanted invitations to write papers for unknown journals specialising in areas I know absolutely nothing about. Emails of … Continue reading
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Tagged author processing charges, journals, open access, writing for publication
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Care work and health system complexity
Two interesting collections of papers have caught my eye in the last week or so. Davina Allen has edited an online volume of articles, all previously published in the journal Sociology of Health & Illness, addressing the sociology of care … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Mental health, Nursing, People, Policy, Research, Services
Tagged complex systems, Francis Report, mental health systems, NHS, writing for publication
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Critical junctures (reprise)
This morning Nicola Evans’ and my paper on Critical junctures has appeared in advance online publication form on the Social Theory & Health website. This is very pleasing, though as I noted in my original post the terms of Palgrave’s … Continue reading
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Tagged critical junctures, journals, open access, trajectories, writing for publication
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Unwanted invitations
A brief, early morning, rant. I’m all for open access, but this morning – and most certainly not for the first time – I received an unsolicited and entirely unwanted email inviting me to submit a paper to an open … Continue reading
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Critical junctures
How pleasing it is to report that the paper I blogged about in this earlier post has now been accepted for publication. Co-written with Nicola Evans this (re)introduces the idea of ‘critical junctures’ and will appear in Social Theory & … Continue reading
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Tagged critical junctures, journals, open access, trajectories, writing for publication
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Some brief thoughts on academic writing
Amongst the general array of things occupying this last working week has been some academic writing. On this occasion my hand has been forced somewhat by news of a previously submitted paper having been rejected by a journal editor, an … Continue reading
