Today’s coffee companion is newly a Doctor, and a leading expert in the realm of plagiarism in academic writing.
We talked about:
- moving from academia to the private sector and the delight of things being available that weren’t previously
- the delights of producing something (in her case a PhD thesis, in mine a set of playing cards) and then the sense of imposter that can come at its release
- how digital channels lead to the removal of a sense of ceremony
- whether there is difference between an Olympic medal and a medal you get awarded in an app?
- how metadata in documents gives away whether someone has cheated or not
- how many of the ways in which students are assessed today will be made irrelevant by emerging technologies
- how slow academic institutions and academics can be to react to change
- the delights of beekeeping, and how much mess they can leave when you get stung
- how beehives divide and multiply
- how hornets look scary, but are actually less trouble than bees.
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The world in numbers…
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