Against the Grain - The Podcast

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Against the Grain - The Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Annual Reviews, with 333 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Annual Reviews hosts Against the Grain - The Podcast, a education show with 333 episodes published.

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  Episode #336

  ATGthePodcast 336 - A Conversation with Harry Collins, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

  Sep 27, 20261h 2mS9

  Description for Show Notes : Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Harry Collins , Professor Emeritus, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Harry is one of the most distinguished academics involved in the sociology of science and has authored 25 books throughout his career. He earned his master's in sociology from Essex University, went on to earn his PhD in the same field, and spent 45 years studying one group of physicists working to detect gravitational waves. In this conversation, he talks with Michael about the Bath School Approach, to deeply analyze how scientific facts are socially constructed. He also talks about a book he stumbled across by accident, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, and how it gave science a sociological face and helped people to begin to think of science in a new way. Harry also talks about the shifting attitudes towards science since the 60's and 70's, and about his well-known book from 1993, The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science , in which he describes science as social, explains what this means, and tells how this book led to a conversation with the director of gravitational physics at the National Science Foundation about the new field. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/Z69xPv0zEZg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-collins-9472a6179/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ Keyword s: #SociologyOfScience #SocialSciences #SocialConstruction #SciencePhilosophy #ScienceStudies #HistoryOfScience #ScienceAndSociety #InformationScience #HigherEd #InformationProfessionals #AcademicLibraries #AcademicInnovation #FutureOfLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

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  Episode #335

  ATGthePodcast 335 - A Conversation with Daniel Dollar, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources, Yale University

  Sep 21, 202654 minS9

  Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Daniel Dollar , Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources, Yale University. Daniel started out by studying politics in the early 90's, going to Washington, D.C., bouncing around between jobs on Capitol Hill, and working for a senator from N.C. until a former staff director and a senior advisor to the Senate Rules Committee advised him to apply to the Library of Congress for a job in Congressional Research Service. Daniel says he was doing research and finding things in the collections of the Library of Congress for congressional offices where he learned more about how libraries operated, and that eventually led him to earn his master's in library science at the University of Maryland. Daniel talks with Michael about his career progression after library school and how he came to Yale. Daniel has become known for the phrase "Collections of service." He says libraries are research and learning organizations, and cultural heritage organizations, and that can be abstracted down to transformation and tradition. And so, the libraries, by their nature, are designed to help transform, to work with faculty, students, members of the public, to achieve their educational and learning needs and goals, to acquire the skills and get access to the information that's going to be able to meet their needs. Thus, what libraries acquire needs to change to support this as research advances and as research in medicine and in law, as well as research across the academy, becomes increasingly multidisciplinary. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/VY6BCjWIo98 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-dollar-984566b/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ Twitter: Keyword s:#Yale #CollectionsOfService #TransformationAndTradition #LibraryScience #InformationScience #Research #ResearchSupport #HigherEd #InformationProfessionals #AcademicLibraries #AcademicInnovation #FutureOfLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

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  Episode #334

  ATGthePodcast 334 - A Conversation with Ulrich Herb, Head, Publication and Research Support, Saarland University Library

  Sep 14, 20261h 2mS9

  Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Ulrich Herb , Head, Publication and Research Support, Saarland University Library. Ulrich has been based for over 20 years at Saarland University. He talks with Michael about being born and raised in Saarland (the smallest federal state in Germany), and growing up in a village directly at the River Saar, the frontier between France and Germany with a unique and turbulent history. His father was an untrained steel worker, and Ulrich says he was always interested in social mobility, barriers in social mobility, obstacles, social justice, prestige norms and in social conflicts. So, his first degree was in sociology. However, he did his PhD in information science, not in sociology, after a conflict with a trade union and a conversation with a professor for information science. He then began working in the university library on a third party funded project on electronic scientific information. Ulrich also talks about what he likes about the University of Saarland, his current role supporting publications and Open Access coordination, and he describes in detail how attitudes to open access have changed since the Budapest Declaration in 2002. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/gXewnMvZd20 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ Keyword s: #SaarlandUniversity #Sociology #SocialJustice #SocialHistory #OpenAccess #OpenScience #LibraryScience #InformationScience #HigherEd #InformationProfessionals #AcademicLibraries #FutureOfLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

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  Episode #333

  ATGthePodcast 333 - A Conversation with Elizabeth Gadd, Chair, INORMS Research Evaluation Group

  Aug 30, 202653 minS9

  Full title: A Conversation with Elizabeth Gadd, Chair, INORMS Research Evaluation Group, and Head of Research Culture and Assessment, Loughborough University Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Elizabeth Gadd , Chair, INORMS Research Evaluation Group, and Head of Research Culture and Assessment, Loughborough University. Elizabeth says that she had an amazing English teacher in school, which led her to pursue an English degree, even though she had worked in a public library since she was 16 years old. She also worked in the academic library during college. Elizabeth felt as though there was no obvious next step upon her graduation with a degree in English; she says it was unlike when "you study chemistry, you become a chemist." So, she put her library experience to good use and applied for the Standing Conference of National University Libraries graduate trainee scheme for UK University librarians (SCONNEL), and received a traineeship at University College London and then completed her masters at Loughborough University and has been there ever since. Elizabeth talks with Michael about where her interest in metrics came from, recently completing her PhD on copyright by publication, finding some injustices of the scholarly communication system and investigating issues of copyright ownership of scholarly information from many different perspectives, designing and working on Project Romeo, how her role at the University has changed over time, moving from librarianship to research management, and how she currently works to change research culture. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/zp04CiBTo8w LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-gadd/ Keyword s:#INORMS #Research #ResearchCulture #ResearchManagement #HigherEd #InformationProfessionals #InformationScience #AcademicLibraries #FutureOfLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

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  Episode #332

  ATGthePodcast 332 - A Conversation with Josh Cromwell, Scholarly Communications Manager, University of Southern Mississippi Libraries

  Aug 24, 202634 minS9

  Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Josh Cromwell , Scholarly Communications Manager, University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Josh is author of the recent Charleston Briefings Institutional Repositories . He has a background in history, and when asked what the appeal of joining a library was to him, he says it merged two of his interests: education and research. In this conversation, he talks with Michael about his early work in a reference position before helping to launch the first repository at his University in 2011, becoming full administrator of that repository in 2013. The following year, while attending ACRL, Josh realized during a session that his institution was the only one there to currently have an institutional repository, which spurred him to want to begin a training program for other institutions to follow suit, so he started a conference. Josh also talks with Michael about the shift in library strategy and the growth of Institutional repositories over the years, and whether he feels they have fulfilled their intended purpose, and he talks about his recent book and what has surprised him most from the feedback he's received from people to which he has presented. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/v_usIDzZBlw LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ Keyword s:#CharlestonBriefings #InstitutionalRepositories #LibraryScience #HigherEd #OpenAccess #InformationProfessionals #InformationScience #AcademicLibraries #FutureOfLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

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