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Just Writing

Auteur(s): Julian Stern
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 Academic writing is just writing. It shouldn't be a mystery. But it should also be just writing, a way of promoting justice. This is the Just Writing podcast from Julian Stern and Sheine Peart.

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  • In Praise of Old Wives

    In Praise of Old Wives
    Jul 13 2025
    ‘Old wives tales’, such as ‘eat fish, it’s brain food’, tend to include knowledge gained through quiet observation over many years, perhaps several generations, and are spread quietly through informal social networks. How can we recognise and capture them in research? Much research is ‘hit and run’ research, where the author benefits and the people whose ideas and information are taken are ignored. This is not good, and recognising different voices, including those of old wives, is a matter of respect. With practice, we can find that the insights gained from articles and books are matched by the insights gained from those living respondents often anonymised or completely ignored by researchers. As academic writers, we can bridge the ‘official’ writings of other academics and the knowledge and understanding of those not yet present in the literature. (And old literature currently ignored in books and articles.) Old wives need praising.

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    25 min
  • The Right to Write

    The Right to Write
    Jun 8 2025

    Who gets the right to speak? Or to write? It can be difficult joining a conversation when the conversation is already happening, especially if that conversation is being dominated by largely white men. Some academics lean into their exclusion from the conversation, but it is mean to say this is a case of self-sabotage. It is a matter of how we work to get the right to write, and how those already within the conversation invite others to join them.

    Academic writing shouldn’t involve too much ‘masking’, to imitate those already there, but a certain amount of this may be used, as described in The Emperor of Gladness, by Ocean Vuong: masking to be heard.

    Where teaching or administration takes up most of an academic’s time, seeming to push research to the margins, there is always SoTL: the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. That means, writing about the teaching and learning that dominates the job. Or we can (and should) write textbooks for students. (Universities have become sniffy about academics writing textbooks, but they are useful, important, and, in contrast to research monographs, they may even make money!)

    Teaching should bleed into research and research should bleed into teaching, and both should bleed into administration and back again from bleeding administration to teaching and to research.

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    30 min

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