CYGNA: Resource collection for the summer holidays
Collates resources for all CYGNA meetings beween mid 2014 and mid 2018
Since moving to the UK, I have been involved in running CYGNA. The network was established in June 2014 as a combined initiative of Argyro Avgoustaki, Ling Eleanor Zhang, and Anne-Wil Harzing, later joined by Shasha Zhao. The name CYGNA comes from the female version of the Greek word for SWAN (Supporting Women in Academia Network). The main objective of the group is to promote interaction among female academics based in the London area and to provide a forum for learning, support, and networking. We typically hold four or five meetings a year with a mix of presentations and informal discussions. A quick overview of the topics covered can be found here. Yearly meeting overviews with pictures can be found here.
CYGNA meetings 2014-2018
Over the last few months I have been writing up blogposts relating to our prior meetings. Here is a list of all of them. Some are more detailed than others as I did this retrospectively, so I don't remember as much from the earlier meetings. We are also missing pictures and presentations for many of the early meetings, and many of these meetings featured research presentations which are not as interesting to a larger audience as the more generic presentations. Therefore, I have combined the 2014-2016 meetings into two bigger topics.
- CYGNA: Be nice AND get the corner office [2018]
- CYGNA: Gender researchers meeting [2018]
- CYGNA: Secondary data sources and research portfolios [2018]
- CYGNA: Working effectively with support staff in academia [2017]
- CYGNA: Social network analysis and managing large research teams [2017]
- CYGNA: Building your academic brand through social media [2017]
- CYGNA: Careers, mobility and belonging: foreign women academics in the UK [2017]
- CYGNA: Women academics in Australia and France [2014-2016]
- CYGNA: Publishing in Management, Psychology and International Business [2014-2016]
- WAIB Panel: Academic career strategies for women in the UK [panel at the AIB-UKI conference]
CYGNA meetings 2019-onwards
From 2019 onwards I have written up separate blogposts for each meeting. Here is the - continuously growing - list.
- CYGNA: Internal versus External promotion
- CYGNA: Understand your co-author(s) and yourself with MBTI
- CYGNA: Big Data in the Social Sciences
- CYGNA: Life-long learning in academia
- CYGNA: Internationalisation of Japanese academia
- CYGNA's 5 year anniversary: Middlesex writing boot-camp
- CYGNA: Work intensification, well-being and career advancement
- CYGNA: Negotiation workshop
- 1st CYGNA Global Virtual Meeting: Coping with a Pandemic
- 2nd CYGNA Global Virtual Meeting: MBTI & Stress
- CYGNA: Female leadership in Higher Education
- CYGNA: How do I keep my job (in academia) in uncertain times?
- CYGNA: The wonderful world of book publishing
- CYGNA: REF and Christmas during a pandemic
- CYGNA: Working in a Horizon-2020 project
- CYGNA: Resistance to gender equality in academia
- CYGNA: Climbing up the academic career ladder
- CYGNA: Women management scholars leading REF impact case studies
- CYGNA: Writing a literature review paper: whether, what, and when?
Publish or Perish related presentations
During the CYGNA meetings I also gave regular presentations (see picture) about citation analysis and the use of my Publish or Perish software. However, most of these presentations have now been improved for other purposes. Here are some blogposts relating to this:
- The four C's of getting cited
- Bibliometrics in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
- Measuring the impact of academic research: Best practices and open questions
- Why metrics can (and should?) be used in the Social Sciences
- Publish or Perish: Realising Google Scholar's potential to democratise citation analysis
Drop me a line and have a nice Summer
If you’d like to join the CYGNA network, just drop me an email. This will be my last post before my Summer blogging holiday in July and August. The British summer is too short to spend more time behind your computer than is strictly necessary. Have a great summer all! I'll see you back early September with a post on Internal vs. External promotions.
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Anne-Wil Harzing is Emerita Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a select group of distinguished AIB members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business. In addition to her academic duties, she also maintains the Journal Quality List and is the driving force behind the popular Publish or Perish software program.
