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DrMatthewHarris

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7452m.harris

 
 
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Reynolds BuildingCharing Cross Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Price:2022:10.1007/s11192-021-04231-3,
author = {Price, R and Skopec, M and Mackenzie, S and Nijhoff, C and Harrison, R and Seabrook, G and Harris, M},
doi = {10.1007/s11192-021-04231-3},
journal = {Scientometrics: an international journal for all quantitative aspects of the science of science, communication in science and science policy},
pages = {1021--1037},
title = {A novel data solution to inform curriculum decolonisation: the case of the Imperial College London Masters of Public Health},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04231-3},
volume = {127},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - There is increasing interest within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to examine curricula for legacies of colonialism or empire that might result in a preponderance of references to research from the global north. Prior attempts to study reading lists for author geographies have employed resource-intensive audit and data collection methods based on manual searching and tagging individual reading list items by characteristics such as author country or place of publication. However, these manual methods are impractical for large reading lists with hundreds of citations that change over instances the course is taught. Laborious manual methods may explain why there is a lack of quantitative evidence to inform this debate and the understanding of geographic distribution of curricula. We describe a novel computational method applied to 568 articles, representing 3166 authors from the Imperial College London Masters in Public Health programme over two time periods (2017–18 and 2019–20). Described with summary statistics, we found a marginal shift away from global north-affiliated authors on the reading lists of one Masters course over two time periods and contextualise the role and limitations of the use of quantitative data in the decolonisation discourse. The method provides opportunities for educators to examine the distribution of course readings at pace and over time, serving as a useful point of departure to engage in decolonisation debates.
AU  - Price,R
AU  - Skopec,M
AU  - Mackenzie,S
AU  - Nijhoff,C
AU  - Harrison,R
AU  - Seabrook,G
AU  - Harris,M
DO  - 10.1007/s11192-021-04231-3
EP  - 1037
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 0138-9130
SP  - 1021
TI  - A novel data solution to inform curriculum decolonisation: the case of the Imperial College London Masters of Public Health
T2  - Scientometrics: an international journal for all quantitative aspects of the science of science, communication in science and science policy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04231-3
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000744420900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-021-04231-3
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/94224
VL  - 127
ER  -
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