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Meet Jenna Rachid:Navigating Academia and the Transition to Working with ADHD

Jenna Rachid shares her journey with ADHD, highlighting her experiences and strategies in both academia and her career as a Digital Engagement Officer at the UK Council for Psychotherapy.

July 24, 2024

7 min read

Scholarcy's top tips for students

What are the best ways to be successful at university? Here are some of Scholarcy's top tips for student success

Oliver Back

May 9, 2024

3 min read

The Future of AI and Academia: Mushtaq Bilal

In an era where AI is reshaping every facet of life, what role does it play in revolutionising academic writing and research? Discover how Mushtaq Bilal leverages AI to enhance scholarly work.

February 13, 2024

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.

January 30, 2024

AI In The Classroom

The surge in AI usage for education raises questions about academic integrity and learning efficacy, with educators worldwide adjusting teaching methods to integrate technology meaningfully.

December 11, 2023

3 min read

Essential Academic AI Apps

AI tools are enhancing academic research by simplifying literature reviews and enabling quick access to reliable information, empowering students and scholars to focus on research.

December 9, 2023

4 min read

Sifting and evaluating academic articles using Scholarcy

Getting a clear insight into what an academic article is about takes time. It’s perhaps not surprising that researchers are good readers, but effective research involves two quite different kinds of reading: reading at scale, and detailed evaluation.Researchers read at scale to carry out the initial scan of an article. Using the standard figure for adult reading speeds of 300 words per minute, and given an average length of article as 4,133 words (based on a count of 61,000 articles in PubMed Central), it will take a researcher around 14 minutes to read (that is, to scan) one paper.

August 1, 2022

Can automation make you a better researcher?

With many skills, such as learning a language, playing an instrument, or learning to ski, we often think that if only we spent more time on the task, we would reach our goals more effectively. But is the same true for all aspects of academic research - for example, screening the literature? Does spending more time screening research papers always make for better research?

July 27, 2022

How to make citations work harder for you

A fundamental component of scholarly research is reading, and citing, other people’s work. One effective way to get more context and a deeper understanding of a subject is to look at the citations to, and from, an article.Science is one long trail of citations. Apart from the very first academic article, published in January 1665, every article has had earlier papers to draw on, to agree with, or to refute.

May 12, 2022

Making published research more accessible

Accessibility has been a consideration of web design for almost as long as the web has existed. Accessibility guidelines are arguably well understood, and relatively straightforward to implement when it comes to websites and apps. Academic books and articles, however, predate the internet by many years, and it may seem that academic articles are the most unlikely starting points for accessible text. At first sight, articles can look very daunting – full of technical abbreviations, and demanding considerable prior knowledge, presenting challenges for the general reader and students alike.

April 23, 2022

8 min read

How to evaluate the quality and veracity of an article

So you’ve got a literature review to write, and the deadline is approaching. Perhaps you don’t know how to begin. Or maybe you’ve started and got stuck. Perhaps you’ve used one of the many discovery tools out there to find relevant papers, but now you have to read and filter them all. You’ve got a folder full of articles, and you’re learning that PDF doesn’t actually stand for ‘print, download, forget’….

November 5, 2021

Six elements a research summary should include

Summarizing a research paper (or papers) sounds like it should be a pretty quick, easy task. After all, how hard can writing 200 words be?! But whether you’re writing a summary to include in your essay or dissertation, or you need to draft a compelling abstract for your own paper, distilling complex research into an informative, easy-to-read snapshot can be one of the most daunting parts of the research process. For that reason, it’s often the activity that gets left to last.

February 16, 2021