Rising Scholars News
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The importance of research communities: lessons from my role as an AuthorAID Community Administrator
Otuto Amarauche Chukwu is a PhD candidate in Health Policy at the University of Toronto. He is a licensed pharmacist and multiple award-winning scholar and Social Impact Innovator. Otuto believes …
How to address the language barrier to improve access and quality of research training in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In this blog post, Gédéon CHOMBA SENGA from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) discusses how and why international research interventions must reach French-speaking countries.
Just Say NO to Nominalisation
In this post, Alex Arreola complains about nominalisation, a common practice in academic writing where verbs are transformed into nouns.
Thank you to all our contributors in 2023
Thank you to all AuthorAID members who contributed to our activities last year through planning, facilitation, mentoring, writing and leading journal clubs and hubs.
Don't get me started on 'use' versus 'utilise'...
Richard de Grijs wonders why one would prefer utilise over use in complex scientific writing.
My quest against 'respectively'
"Respectively" can be used to refer to corresponding items in a list, but Alex Arreola would rather not use it at all.
3 troubling reasons helicopter science is ruining science in developing countries
In this blog post, Edmond Sanganyado argues that developing country researchers need to be wary of the scientific imperialism of 'helicopter science' and provides some recommendations for guarding against it.