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This post is part of an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this. The Green Paper asks in Question 27: > How would you suggest the burden of REF exercises is reduced?

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This post is part of an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this. The Green Paper asks in Question 25: >a) What safeguards would you want to see in place in the event that dual funding was operated within a single organisation?

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This post is part of an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this. The Green Paper asks in Question 26: > What are the benefits of the REF to a) your institution and b) to the wider sector? How can we ensure they are preserved?

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Dear Sir/Madam, I write in a personal capacity to request an internal review of my partially denied FOI request with the reference [FOI2015/25797](https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/302242/response/745563/attach/3/FOI%20Request%20ref%20FOI2015%2025797%20Meetings%20between%20BIS%20officials%20ministers%20and%20Elsevier%20Thompson%20Reuters.pdf) (pertaining to meetings between senior BIS officials and Elsevier/Thomson Reuters). Details in the

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So, probably against my better thoughts with respect to quantified self stuff, I got a fitness tracker for Christmas: the Jaybird Reign. The trouble was, regardless of what I tried, it just wouldn't pair with my phone (I'd followed all the instructions). I grudgingly waited until the tech. support team was open and got in touch, thinking I'd have to RMA the unit.

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Over the holiday period I wanted to visualize the differences between two editions of a text that I had found to be very different (more on this in the new year). I couldn't find a ready-made solution, so I put together a small piece of software to achieve this: [SankeyVariant](https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/SankeyTextualVariant). The software is based on d3.js and the Sankey plugin and, with the modifications that I have introduced, it allows

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This year was a good year for me in terms of academia. I started my job as a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, I launched the Open Library of Humanities with a substantial Mellon grant, and I finished writing two books that I hope will be published next year (_Password_ and _The Anxiety of Academia_). I also began supervising some really great Ph.D. students, including Stuart Lawson on the politics of open access.

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This post is part of an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this. The Green Paper asks in Question 22: > a) Do you agree with the proposed powers for OfS and the Secretary of State to manage risk? Please give reasons for your answer.

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This post is part of an [ongoing series](https://martineve.com/GreenPaper/) where I intend to develop my full _personal_ (_not_ institutional) response to the HE Green Paper. Comments are welcome to refine this. The Green Paper asks in Question 20: > What steps could be taken to increase the transparency of student unions and strengthen unions’ accountability to their student members? Provisional response: None should be taken.