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Building an EdTech Startup: An interview with Emma Warren-Jones

Emma Warren-Jones, co-founder of Scholarcy, shares her entrepreneurial journey and insights on the evolution of the EdTech industry, emphasizing Scholarcy's role in making academic research more accessible and the shift towards direct-to-consumer models.

Jessica Rachid
March 1, 2024
9 min read

Navigating the 2024 Job Market: A Graduate's Guide in the AI Era

Emotional intelligence, creativity and critical thinking are essential skills in today's job market.

Jessica Rachid
January 30, 2024
6 min read

Sourcing, Screening, and Storing new literature with Scholarcy

Learn how you can source, screen, and store academic literature with Scholarcy

Oliver Back
November 24, 2023
6 min read

Can summarization tech help authors draft their manuscripts?

We recently ran a pilot with Future Science Group to evaluate how well Scholarcy’s knowledge extraction and summarisation technology worked in comparison to author generated abstracts, summary points and keywords.

Emma Warren-Jones
February 24, 2023
7 min read

Combining AI and visual design to create beautiful scientific posters

The background study for your research is an extensive undertaking. There’s a huge number of scientific papers you’ll need to sift through to glean vital information about the foundations and latest developments in your subject. In fact, the typical academic scholar reads an average of 20 research papers a month.Scientific papers have also become harder to read in recent years which just adds to the time pressure, especially if you’re screening a lot of literature. Complex writing styles and overuse of jargon have exacerbated the problem. Just skimming articles to identify key data and findings can take up a lot of your research time, and that’s before you even get to a shortlist of papers that you need to analyze in more depth.

Emma Warren-Jones
September 29, 2021
6 min read

How to do an Effective Literature review

In our recent article: Five pitfalls to look out for when doing your literature review, we talked about some of the challenges researchers and students face when it comes to evaluating the articles that will be most for their own work. This can be a daunting task even for experienced researchers because of the sheer volume of literature out there.There’s no shortage of discovery services available that can return pages of search results, even for obscure terms.

Emma Warren-Jones
February 4, 2021
5 min read

Machine-generated visual summaries in a crowded research space

One of the most immediate and effective ways to showcase new research is to display it as a poster at conferences. Presenting your research in a striking, visual format can be a powerful way to get audience attention. The challenge is, even with a captive audience, the time an author has to pique the interest of peers and publishers is limited. And now that authors are having to compete for attention at virtual conferences, the problem is exacerbated.

Emma Warren-Jones
January 26, 2021
8 min read