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The weird world of academic research
As you can imagine we get to see an awful lot of research at The Oxford Review. The studies we read tend to fall into a series of categories: Great, this is good research and it’s useful Good research – but it’s not much use to practitioners This is reasonable research and there is something […]
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When evidence isn’t evidence: Telling fake news from real news…
How good are you at spotting fake news? One of the many problems that non-academic evidence-based practitioners face is understanding the veracity or trustworthiness of research papers. Many practitioners do not always realise is that many studies, think tank reports, blog posts, LinkedIn posts, white papers, reports and other expert opinion articles are frequently biased. One […]
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University Student Exam Fails
Funny exam fails… Here are some of this years university exam fails… As you may know I also lecture at a couple of Universities (Oxford, Cardiff and Oxford Brookes) on a regular basis. I also mark exam papers and theses in these and a couple of other universities. I thought you might like to see […]
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Deciphering academic papers – 9 examples of academic gibberish
One of our claims is that we translate ‘academic’ into human. Only sometimes we can’t! Not because of any lack of intellect on our behalf but due to the gibberish that emanates from the pens of academics around the world. I am often asked for examples so here are nine we have come across this […]
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