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New information and training hub launched to support prison librarianship

A new website has been launched to provide resources for prison library staff and others involved in providing library services to people in prison and their families.
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New research suggests that funding organisations can fix the profit-first science publishing system

A new paper proposes that academic research funders can fix the science publishing system, which researchers argue currently puts profit first and science second.
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Rethinking journalism teaching in the age of AI: UK Industry experts address future of news education

The School of Information, Journalism and Communication, along with the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ), is hosting a symposium dedicated to the practical integration of Artificial Intelligence into journalism education.
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£800,000 MORPHSS project aims to investigate and promote open research practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences

MORPHSS (Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences) is designed to create frameworks and guidelines to encourage adoption of open practices in HSS as well contribute to our knowledge of such practices.
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National industry awards shortlisting for School of Journalism, Media and Communication

The School of Journalism, Media and Communication has made the shortlist in four different categories in the prestigious National Council of Training for Journalists (NCTJ) Awards for Excellence.
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Dani Madrid-Morales elected to lead division of the ICA

Dr Madrid-Morales, Lecturer in Journalism and Global Communication, was recently elected to lead the Global Communication and Social Change Division of the International Communication Association.
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The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour – a different approach is needed

Professor Stephen Pinfield contributes to this article for The Conversation discussing the issues with academic peer review and the innovative platform and 'metaresearch experiment' MetaROR which is intended to help address some of these problems.
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Generative AI paper authored by Dr Kate Miltner among British Academy's 13 discussion papers on "good" digital society

The papers, from a range of expert perspectives across the ‘SHAPE’ disciplines (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy), explore the question: ‘What are the possibilities of a good digital society?’