Creative Disruption in Scholarship: What Happens Next?

The Authority File

In the final episode of this four-part series, Beth Driscoll, Associate Professor of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne, and Claire Squires, Professor of Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, and the editors of The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition, discuss the future of disrupting scholarly communication. They underscore the need to encourage creative, innovative, and collaborative methods of scholarship that can sit beside and be in conversation with traditional research. Specifically, they chat about potential interdisciplinary approaches to their work, and how they plan to advance their concept of Ullapoolism in forthcoming projects. They close with thoughts on how the practice of perfecting craft can act as a hurdle or barrier to the intellectual process. As Beth explains, “Sometimes the first draft or the rough version contains an insight or some kind of truth that if you work it over endlessly and polish it, disappears from the final product.”

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