The Scopus Diaries and the (il)logics of Academic Survival

Now that academics are required to be teachers, managers, media catalyzers, analysts, fundraisers, and social media animals: How do you strike a good balance between what is expected from you and what you want to do?
What conferences to attend? How to find the money to go there? Is it worth it to act as a peer reviewer? What publishers are best to target? Is publishing a chapter in an edited book worth the work?

Based on the book "the scopus diaries and the (il)logics of academic survival" (https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-scopus-diaries-and-the-illogics-of-academic-survival/9783838211992), this presentation is an introduction to scholars intrigued by international careers, rankings and "excellence in science". It is also intended to help scholars to design and think strategically about their own career. Beginning with “How to get published in good journals,” it explores a number of questions that most academics encounter at various stages of their careers.

Dr. Abel Polese is a Senior Research Fellow with the Dublin City University Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction. He has been a Marie Curie Fellow at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany (2006-2008) and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2008-2011). In 2012-2013 he worked as a policy analyst for the European Commission (DG Research). He has been a visiting professor to several universities in America (Harvard, Toronto, Manizales), Europe (Paris, Budapest, Dubrovnik, Moscow, Cagliari, Vilnius, Rijeka, Kyiv), Asia (Tezpur, JNU in Delhi, Konkpook in Daegu, Renmin in Beijing).

So far, Abel has been awarded funding for over nearly €16 million and his project “Sustainable Development in Cultural Diversity” received the Global Education Award by the Council of Europe in 2011. He has also prepared studies and reports for, inter alia, the UNDP, the Irish Department of Justice, WAGGGS, Erasmus National Offices.

He is the author of the Scopus diaries and the (il)logics of academic survival, which is a reflection on how to navigate academic careers, and regularly writes blog posts on the challenging of academia. Abel is co-editor of Studies of Transition States and Societies, a scopus-indexed open access journal and is active in debates and initiatives on open science and science excellence with the Global Young Academy, one of the main organisations dealing with science policies across five continents.

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