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Professional Academic Communication in English (PACE)
Doctoral Academic Literacies @ougradsch.bsky.social
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Posts by https://profiles.open.ac.uk/julia-molinari {JM}
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So sorry, Sandra 🖤 {JM}
October 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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"for students like me, writing is more than a skill. It’s a form of resistance. It’s how we carve out space in institutions that weren’t built for us. And anyone who helps us do that — respectfully, ethically, collaboratively — is part of that resistance too."

#PACEspace {JM}
July 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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A pdf of my slides on 'AI and multiliteracies' is now available on the EATAW conference website and can be cited via doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Thank you to Jennifer Sizer (orcid.org/0000-0002-27...) for alerting me to #Zenodo (which lets you share presentations via #Orcid with a doi)

#PACEspace {JM}
Snip tool of 2 of my slides on why archives matter discussed in the context of whose archives and how the AI bots are trained
July 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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V. relevant to our recent discussions:

"Explicit conversations about the nature of the doctorate should enable consideration of how context matters in the conceptualization of doctoral purposes and practices"

'Defining the Doctorate in Africa: Aligning Purpose with Context'
doi.org/10.6017/895b...
Some countries are making deliberate efforts to match the doctoral curriculum to the prevailing job market. While this is largely a positive move, positioning skills-based training for industry as the key purpose of doctoral education has the potential for the doctorate to be conceptualized primarily as a commodity. The consequences of constructing the doctorate—and by extension knowledge—as a product are numerous: time to completion becomes the focus instead of quality; production is foregrounded over the nurturing of a researcher; and the product is accompanied by a requirement to produce journal articles, which has led to the proliferation of predatory publications. What Is Needed? What is needed for doctoral education in postindependence universities across Africa are spaces to discuss the purposes of the doctorate with a greater reflection on unchallenged assumptions across countries, national policies, and within institutions. Such discussions should not attempt to pin down the doctorate to a narrow, shared purpose—rather they should open spaces for reflection on taken-for-granted and often problematic assumptions. They should allow for far-
July 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Winding my way back to the UK by train from Braga (Pt) having made my point: the real politik of #GenAI needs embedding in ALL academic writing pedagogies.

It's not enough to teach what-how. It's imperative to teach why this is happening to develop agentic reflexivity and flourish.
#CriticalRealism
Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course. Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course. Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course.
July 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #FutureOfDoctoralWriting
How students should write a thesis in the AI age - Impact of Social Sciences
AI tools help students produce polished theses without deep understanding. Thorsten Fröhlich argues rigid assessment formats stifle critical thinking, and calls for a rethink of how research is taught...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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⏳️Registration closes on Monday June 30th⏳️

We've increased ticket capacity so there's still a chance to join (ideally in person, if you can).

Pre-seminar discussions are already taking place asynchronously online & are heating up🌡

#DoctoralWriting #AcWri {JM}

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
The Future of Doctoral Writing: Critical Dialogues towards a Manifesto
Join our online discussions and agenda-setting 1-day hybrid seminar to collectively author a 'Manifesto on the Future of Doctoral Writing'
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM