Forum response: sustaining ourselves as scholars

In our classrooms, the trauma-informed practices and student-centered pedagogies can be read as resistance to enduring and outdated pedagogical practices as well as a "back to normal" or "business as usual" approaches to the ongoing effects of COVID-19 (Cartee;Raptis). As the COVID-19 pandemic and its lingering effects have shown us, long-term sustenance of ourselves and others as learners, teachers, scholars, and human beings is perhaps most worthy of our focus when cultivating a meaningful career - more so than traditional measures of productivity and success. Hosek and Verhoff complement these institutional and classroom-level considerations with their essay on crafting a sustainable career, emphasizing personal agency. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Communication Education is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Editors' introduction: sustaining ourselves as scholars

For this forum, we invited essays exploring ways that we can build resilience and sustain our work as faculty and scholars. Authors were asked to address one of the following questions in their essays: How can we build resilience in our academic communities? As the COVID-19 pandemic becomes endemic, it is time to pause to reflect on how we want to move forward as a scholarly community in ways that sustain our work as teachers, scholars, and human beings. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Communication Education is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Management of Personal Financial Practices among Scholars: Do They Really Know What They Are Doing and What They Need to Improve during Covid-19?

Purpose: The rising daily expenditure, tough economic conditions and Covid 19 pandemic have made individuals and households more concern of their financial management. The study was carried out to examine major determinates of personal financial managementpracticesamong ICCR sponsored scholars. Design/methodology/approach: The research employed a cross-sectional conclusive research design that included both descriptive and explanatory research. The study used a self-administered questionnaire, and shared the link of Google form to respondents directly through official group social network pages which created and administrated by ICCR Gujarat office. The study employed descriptive statistics and inferential analyses such as correlation between variables and analyzed their effects using multiple regressions. Findings: The result of the study has shown that financial knowledge, financial behavior, financial attitude, financial planning, and financial socialization have positive and significant effect on personal financial management. Covid 19 pandemic has negative impacts on personal financial management practices. Practical implications: The study recommends financial education at a young age in order to acquire knowledge of saving, money management, and investment as early as possible by the new generation. . Training of young minds can help prepare and enable them to face the economic adversities faced by the generation globally. Originality/Value-There has been relatively little theoretically based empirical study on the association between personal financial management and financial practices of scholars in the literature, implying that further empirical research is required

Researchers' perception and response to the open access resources (OAR) in higher learning institutions of Tamil Nadu, India

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to report the results of a survey conducted at Bharathidasan and Alagappa Universities to determine the research scholars' awareness, use of Open Access (OA) resources, reasons for using, impact of OA on the research scholars' research, satisfaction and problems faced.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, a self-assessed questionnaire was developed to collect data from the research scholars pursuing their research degrees from Bharathidasan and Alagappa Universities of Tamil Nadu, India. A total of 400 research scholars from various disciplines responded were used for analysis.FindingsThe results indicated that the majority of research scholars aware of few OA resources to a large extent and afraid to redistribute the sources as they fear of copyright issues. Easy to use, more informative and global research at one place were the major reasons for accessing the resources. The research scholars were aware of OA features and OA's impact such as freedom to use, modify, resources available with source code, reliability, self-archiving, quick publishing, more citations etc. Delay in downloading and lack of computer terminals to access the resources were the major issues faced by the research scholars. On the whole, the researchers are considering OA model as an alternative to business model and expect the university librarians to promote and enhance the accessibility of OA resources.Practical implicationsThe outcomes of the results will enable the librarians and authorities in universities to formulate appropriate decisions to remove the issues faced by the research scholars and develop a framework for new literacy instructions.Originality/valueThe study undertaken is new to the Indian continent and the Tami Nadu state in particular. The findings of the study will be useful to improve the awareness level and use of OA resources effectively.

Covid 19 Pandemic in Indonesia: Some Reflections from Ba?L Al-M???N by Ibn ?Ajr Al-?Asqal?N?

History and pandemics are two inseparable entities, yet often forgotten. The occurrence of a pandemic in a certain time and place has always become a critical object of study and documentation, thus generating innumerable research literature. This research attempts to re-state the urgency of historical literature as a source of knowledge on dealing with the Covid-19 crisis through the religious scholars' approach. The data were compiled through observation and literature review with content analysis method on Bazl al-Ma`un of Ibn Hajr al-MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RINGAsqalani, a classic book containing pandemic studies sourced from hadith and the history of the early Muslim community. The result of this study reveals that classical religious literature as historical knowledge could provide contextual solutions for society. The study of the historical works not only gives clues on the past events but also provides material to contextualise the attempt to build newly-induced awareness in the community. Learning from past events teaches society that pandemics are recurring events. Some similarities and differences are seen in every part of the pandemic. Thus, religious scholars serve as agents who disseminate the lesson learned from the past to prevent the recurrence of similar events in the future. This way, people of today should refer to the past to set some appropriate strategies for coping with the pandemic. Likewise, a historical account mentions the relevance of some terminologies that are currently used around Covid-19.

Researchers' Perception of MOOCs: An Indian Case Study

Massive open online courses have gained popularity during the coronavirus induced lockdown. In India educational institutions have been working online since last fifteen months. During this time research scholar enrolled in higher educational institution have taken MOOC course to augment knowledge. This study is an attempt to understand the researchers' perception of MOOCs. It uses the qualitative approach to understand the experience of learning with MOOCs, especially during the pandemic. It outlines the ways in which researchers benefited by taking MOOCs while highlighting their grievances. This study also has a lot of implications for the researchers and facilitators of MOOCs as it points at the lacunae in the application of their products which once rectified will help them yield desired results. © 2022 IEEE.

The disappearing research agendas of mother‐scholars in academia during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Autoethnographic studies

It is not new for mother‐scholars to face challenges in balancing work and life demands;however, the COVID‐19 pandemic has redefined the meaning of mother‐scholars as they maneuver working from home, caring for their dependents, and maintaining their research productivity. The following manuscript is a collection of autoethnographic studies of the experiences of four women of differing ranks in the academy: pre‐tenure, mid‐career, and late‐career. What they all have in common is caregiving responsibilities that abruptly derailed their research agendas when the pandemic interrupted their lives.

The Pandemic as a Soundtrack for the Dissertation Journey: Obtaining Flow During Unprecedented Times

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate the experiences of practitioner-scholars as they conducted their dissertations amidst the COVID-19 pandemic;the methodology utilized surveys at four time points across a 1-year span. Findings indicated increased impacts as the pandemic progressed, as well as both negative and positive pandemic impacts related to flow, as measured by the Work-Related Flow Inventory (WOLF). These impacts largely depended on the doctoral students’ personal and work life situations, indicating a need for doctoral programs to provide individualized support as students progress through their dissertation journeys, particularly during times of crisis. © The Author(s) 2022.

Analysis of Research Paper Titles Containing Covid-19 Keyword Using Various Visualization Techniques

It’s been around two years from the outbreak of the coronavirus, thus labeled as Covid-19, and there has been an explosion of literature being published by research scholars related to work done on Covid-19. Covid-19 as a keyword has been mentioned in the titles of most of these papers. It was thought to analyse the number of papers and the titles of papers which include Covid-19 in the title of the research papers. The various combinations of other words like, prefixes, suffixes, N-gram combinations with the keyword Covid- 19 in the titles of these papers were also analysed. The research publication repositories analysed were: IEEE Explore, ACM Digital Library, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, Cornel University etc. The domains of research publication title analysis were restricted to computer science/computer engineering related papers. As the term labeling the corona virus outbreak as Covid-19 was labeled in 2020, the timeline of title analysis was restricted from 2019 till December 2021. The term Covid-19 is also one of the most searched terms in most of these research repositories as is evident from the search suggestions offered by them. Considering the usefulness of Bag of Words and N Gram algorithm in analytics and data visualization, a methodology is proposed and implemented based on bag of words algorithm to do prefix and suffix words analysis. This methodology is working correctly to state different prefix and suffix words used by various researchers to demonstrate significance of their titles. Methodology based on N Gram analysis is found effective to find topic on which most of the researchers have done work. Word Clouds are generated to demonstrate different buzz words used by researchers in their respective paper titles. These are useful for providing visualization of the data if it is in big size. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

US-China Higher Education Links in Crisis: Behind the Curtain of Suspicion

Has America's complex academic relationship with China been a largely positive experience, or has it eroded our national security by enabling Chinese Communist academic espionage and influence operations to take root at US colleges and universities? For almost forty years beginning in 1978, US-China education links were widely considered a clear benefit to both countries. Today, academic relationships have become a focal point of the current crisis in US-China relations. A web of suspicion has come down over Chinese students and scholars in the United States, as well as Chinese scientists and entrepreneurs. Some members of the Trump administration have even talked about cancelling all Chinese student visas. This article focuses on Chinese students and scholars in the United States. It examines the flashpoints of academic espionage and China's influence operations on American campuses, looks at how American institutions are responding, and closes with recommendations and reflections.

Anxiety and the Onset of COVID-19: Examining Concerns of Historically Excluded Scholars

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic increased uncertainty, leading to questions about how it spread, how long it would last, and its long-term effects. In academia, many scholars worried about their positions and career advancement. Our research focuses on how different groups within academia coped during the initial period of the pandemic, with particular attention paid to the role of anxiety. We argue that vulnerable groups, such as historically excluded individuals, graduate students, and women, felt even higher levels of anxiety. We use original survey data collected from international relations and political science scholars during May 2020. We content analyze open-ended responses to illustrate the impacts of the pandemic on our participants' work life, including research productivity, the job market, promotion, and tenure. These analyses reveal not only what different groups of scholars are concerned about, but also the different ways in which they discuss the pandemic. Our research aims to highlight the social and mental health effects of the pandemic, with an eye toward addressing inequalities in academia. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of International Studies Perspectives is the property of Oxford University Press / USA and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

An Evaluation of the Quality of Answers to Academic Questions Relating to COVID-19 on Academic Social Q&A Platforms

Academic social network sites have become an important channel by which scholars obtain academic information. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of academic social question and answer (Q&A) online platforms is a fast and efficient means of gathering information needed to solve research problems relating to the study of COVID-19. The question then is how to provide scholars with high-quality answers. Therefore, this research focuses on studying the characteristics of high-quality answers to COVID-19 questions on academic social Q&A platforms in terms of the answer content. By analyzing 6791 answers to 349 questions about COVID-19 on ResearchGate Q&A, high-quality academic answers on this topic should be rich in content, contain more negative emotions, be fluent in the use of language, and propose conjectures or hypotheses. This research helps to improve the provision of satisfactory academic information services for scholars during public health emergencies.

Conflict, COVID-19, climate change: The emergence and possible evolution of peace journalism

Peace journalism is a concept conventionally applied to reporting on violent conflict. In recent years, however, there has been increasing consideration of the possible links with other crucial subjects such as climate change and COVID-19 reporting. To date, such an extension of peace journalism has not yet been comprehensively considered in Australian scholarship on and about the Pacific Island region. This seeming lack of widespread engagement in the discussions about relevance and applicability of peace journalism in the region is part of the rationale for this article. The authors hope this article can inspire debate about the chosen approaches of Australian-based media scholars researching, writing and teaching about media in the Pacific. © 2021 Intellect Ltd Research Article. English language.

Understanding impact of communication ban on mental health in conflict zone:- Experiences from young Kashmiri research scholars

This study investigated explored the impct of abrogation of article 370, high speed internet ban after abrogation of article 370 on mental health of kasmiri research scholars. A cross sectional qualitative analytical method was used to analyze the status of mental health among research scholars of the valley who pursue Ph.D. in different universities of Kashmir valley from July 5, 2020 - November10, 2020, before one month, when India was about to celebrate first anniversary of article 370 abrogation and Kashmir was about to remember the as "Youmi siyaha" meaning "black day." Mental health screening was conducted using PHQ-9 for anxiety related symptoms and GAD-7 for depression related symptoms. A total of 215 research scholars responded to the mental health screening survey. Results show that the impact of communication blockage during and before COVID-19 pandemic for first six months and then ban on High speed internet, a total of 83.72% were of the view that they cannot access research databases or communicate research articles to journals and they cannot shift to online mode due to low speed internet connection. 11.62% were of the view that they understood that communication blackout is a security measure taken by India government to stop protests, while majority of the researchers 84.38% were not satisfied with ban on high speed internet or communication blackout as it is directly affecting day to day schedule and their research progress. This results in anxiety, hopelessness, and frustration as they were are not able to reach out to their peers or access research databases and will eventually lead to failure as they could not compete with other research scholars of country and their time will be wasted. 45% (98/215) were of the view that they have now lost interest in the research activities as worrying thoughts are coming in their minds. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Silence May Equal Death, But So Does Uncompensated Queer Labor: How Not to Publish an LGBTQ+ Journal During a Pandemic

The title of the special issue of The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion is “Queering Information: LGBTQ+ Memory, Interpretation, Dissemination”. I wasinvited to serve as a guest editor of this journal when I was an academic librarian andtenured university faculty, and I saw it as a great honor to do so. I reached out to all of theinternational LGBTQ+ contacts I had made during my conference travels, committeeengagement, Wikipedia endeavors, and other publishing work to seek out as many diversesubmissions as possible on this topic. Over 100 people contacted me from around the world,expressing interest in submitting an article about their research, a project, their library, archive,or museum exhibit © 2021, International Journal of Information, Diversity and Inclusion. All Rights Reserved.

The Academicians on Quarantine: Reflexivity and Fragility of the Privileged Group at the Start of Pandemic

The goal of this article is to analyze the challenges faced by social researchers during the first months of the pandemic of 2020 when work-life issues were problematized and academic routine changed. The article is based on a dataset of diaries in which researchers with an academic background in social sciences and humanities were fixing their everyday life and reflecting on its changes. We explore why academicians, a relatively privileged group due to their possibilities of safe remote-working and maintaining professional obligations during the period of lockdown, experienced strong moral emotions related to work. We argue that basic references of space and time lost their routine structure, hindered work productivity, and threatened the "proper", disciplined, and productive academic self. In their written narratives, participants of the project describe different emotional responses to this situation, with a focus on negative feelings including anxiety and guilt. The new reality was characterized by the layering of previously separated tasks at the same time and space boundaries, and therefore, in overload. At the same time, academicians were deprived of routine forms of face-to-face professional communications and networking. Academicians are oriented towards self-discipline and productivity, and self is produced via normative (self) evaluation and the juxtaposition with reference group(s). When the rules are changed, unstable, or constantly violated, it threatens the self. Moral emotions indicate this process until the new social order becomes inhabited and routinized.

Teachers' attitudes towards social media (SM) use in online learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic: the effects of SM use by teachers and religious scholars during physical distancing.

The adoption of physical distancing and quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic to contain virus spread has left the world with schools' closure. In response, schools have shifted into online learning in developed societies while the developing world struggles to opt for online learning due to limited infrastructure and capacity and religious beliefs, in some communities, that discourage online learning. However, there has been a significant increase in the use of Social Media (SM) observed across developing and developed societies and religious communities amid physical distancing. This study was conducted to explore the possibility of SM use in online learning by exploring teachers' attitudes in relation to the effects of physical distancing and increased SM use, SM knowledge and religious leaders' SM use. In a quantitative investigation method, the researchers used a questionnaire as a primary tool to collect the data from 252 teachers of both public and private schools. Partial Least Square Structural Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used as an analysis method to assess and measure the proposed model. The findings are significant to inform how physical distancing amid the pandemic has influenced teachers' attitudes to opt for social media use in online learning. The findings have implications for teachers worldwide, particularly in developing countries, to switch to online learning using SM under challenging situations like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Training "Pivots" from the Pandemic: Lessons Learned Transitioning from In-Person to Virtual Synchronous Training in the Clinical Scholars Leadership Program.

INTRODUCTION: Since the inception of distance-based teaching modalities, a debate has ensued over the quality of online versus in-person instruction. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of teaching environments-including leadership development trainings for post-graduate learners-have been thrust into exploring the virtual learning environment more thoroughly. One three-year leadership development program for interdisciplinary healthcare professionals transitioned three simultaneous leadership intensives from in-person to online in the spring of 2020. METHODS: Documented changes in overall training length, session length, and session format are described. Further, evaluative data were collected from participants at both retreats via post-session surveys. Ninety-three participants attended the 2019 retreat, and 92 participants attended the 2020 virtual retreat. Quantitative data of three rating questions per session are reported: 1) overall session satisfaction, 2) participants' reported knowledge gain, and 3) participants' reported ability gain. Qualitative data were obtained via two open-ended feedback questions per session. RESULTS: In comparing pre/post scores for knowledge and ability, participants had meaningful (and in some cases higher) self-reported gains in knowledge and ability measures in the online environment, as compared to the in-person environment. Participants reported statistically significant gains in all sessions for both knowledge and ability. Qualitative data of participant feedback identified a number of positive themes similar across the in-person and virtual settings. Negative or constructive feedback of the virtual setting included time constraint issues (eg too much content in one session, a desire for more sessions overall), technical difficulties, and the loss of social connection and networking with fellow participants as compared to in-person trainings. DISCUSSION: While meaningful shifts in knowledge and ability ratings indicate that the transition to successful online learning is possible, several disadvantages remain. The preparation time for both faculty and participants was considerable, there is a need to reduce overall content in each session due to time restraints, and participants indicated feeling the loss of one-on-one connections with their peers in the training. Lessons learned of transitioning leadership training from in-person to an online experience are highlighted.