Professor Inger Mewburn
Ph.D (University of Melbourne)
Director of Research Training
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+61 417 348 083
Areas of expertise
- Curriculum And Pedagogy 1302
- Specialist Studies In Education 1303
- Educational Technology And Computing 130306
- Natural Language Processing 080107
Researcher's projects
All of Inger's research is concentrated on the commercialised product PostAc: using machine learning and natural language processing to assess the demand for researchers in industry. This project includes ongoing product development. Login to the product at postac.com.au and the UK version of the product is available at postac.co.uk
Email postac@anu.edu.au for more information
Current student projects
- Li'an Chen, Centre for the public awareness of science (CPAS), Primary supervisor
- Zara Maxwell-Smith, ANU school of the Asia Pacific (Panel member)
Past student projects
Wendy Suiter, ANU School of Music, CASS (primary supervisor)
Nguyen Bui, School of Literature, linguistics and language (primary supervisor)
Jodie-Lee Trembath, School of Culture, history and language (primary supervisor)
Publications
- Mewburn, I 2021, Level Up Your Essays: How to get better grades at university, NewSouth Publishing, NSW.
- Miller, E & Mewburn, I 2021, 'The Supervision Whisperers: Why a virtual community of practice for research supervisors did (not) work', in Julie Sheldon, Victoria Sheppard (ed.), Online Communities for Doctoral Researchers and their Supervisors, Routledge, London, pp. 110-123.
- Xu, C, Mewburn, I, Grant, W et al. 2019, 'PostAc : A Visual Interactive Search, Exploration, and Analysis Platform for PhD Intensive Job Postings', 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2018, ed. Anna Korhonen, David Traum, LluÃs MÃ rquez, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, pp. 43-48.
- Mewburn, I, Firth, K & Lehmann, S 2019, How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble: a practical guide, Open University Press, United Kingdom.
- Barnett, A, Mewburn, I & Shroter, S 2019, 'Working 9 to 5, not the way to make an academic living: Observational analysis of manuscript and peer review submissions over time', BMJ - British Medical Journal, vol. 367, pp. 1-6.
- Lupton, D, Mewburn, I & Thomson, P, eds, 2018, The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education, Routledge, New York.
- Lupton, D, Mewburn, I & Thomson, P 2018, 'The digital academic: identities, contexts and politics', in Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn and Pat Thomson (ed.), The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education **, Routledge, New York, pp. 1-19.
- Mewburn, I, Grant, W, Suominen, H et al. 2018, 'A Machine Learning Analysis of the Non-academic Employment Opportunities for Ph.D. Graduates in Australia', Higher Education Policy, vol. 33, pp. 799-813.
- Spina, N, Smithers, K, Harris, J et al. 2018, 'Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst 'older' early career researchers, a life-course approach', British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 534-549.
- Mewburn, I & Thomson, P 2017, 'Towards an academic self?: Blogging during the doctorate', in Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn and Pat Thomson (ed.), The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education **, Routledge, New York, pp. 20-35.
- Freund, K, Kizimchuk, S, Zapasnik, J et al. 2017, 'A labour of love: A critical examination of the 'labour icebergs' of massive open online courses', in Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn and Pat Thomson (ed.), The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education **, Routledge, New York, pp. 122-139.
- Mewburn, I 2017, How to be an Academic: The thesis whisperer reveals all, New South Publishing, Sydney Australia.
- Trembath, J & Mewburn, I 2017, 'The Role of the Technology in the Making of a Thesis Whisperer', The Unfamiliar, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-13.
- Mewburn, I 2017, 'A PhD should not look like it’s fun: an actor network theory analysis of digital badges', Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, vol. 1, no. 2.
- Mewburn, I & Thompson, P 2017, 'Social media and academic publishing', in D Wyse, N Selwyn, E Smith & L E Suter (ed.), The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 998-1016pp.
- Kizimchuk, S, Freund, K, Prescott, M et al. 2016, 'Collective effervescence: Designing MOOCs for emotion and community', 33rd International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE Adelaide 2016, ed. S. Barker, S. Dawson, A. Pardo, and C. Colvin, University of South Australia, Australia, pp. 348-353.
- Mewburn, I, Grant, W, Kizimchuk, S et al. 2016, 'The use of machine learning to analyze job advertisements for doctoral employability', Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) 2016, ed. Michelle Picard, Alistair McCulloch, QPR - Quality in Postgraduate Research, Australia, p. 184.
- Caldwell, G, Osborne, L, Mewburn, I et al 2016, 'Connecting the Space between Design and Research: Explorations in participatory research supervision', Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 48, no. 13, pp. 1352-1367.
- Mewburn, I, Grant, W, Suominen, H et al 2016, 'What do non academic employers want? A critical examination of 'PhD shaped' job advertisements for doctoral employability', Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual International Conference 2016, SRHE and Open University Press, unknown, pp. 3pp.
- Pitt, R & Mewburn, I 2016, 'Academic superheroes? A critical analysis of academic job descriptions', Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 88-101.
- Caldwell, G, Osborne, L, Mewburn, I et al 2015, 'Guerrillas in the [Urban] Midst: Developing and Using Creative Research Methods-Guerrilla Research Tactics', Journal of Urban Technology, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 21-36.
- Mewburn, I, Tokareva, E, Cuthbert, D et al 2014, ''These are issues that should not be raised in black and white': the culture of progress reporting and the doctorate', Higher Education Research and Development, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 510-522.
- Mewburn, I, Osborne, L & Caldwell, G 2014, 'Shut up & Write! Some surprising uses of cafes and crowds in doctoral writing', in Claire Aitchison and Cally Guerin (ed.), Writing Groups for Doctoral Education and Beyond: Innovations in practice and theory, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 218-232.
- Mewburn, I, Cuthbert, D & Tokareva, E 2014, 'l Experiencing the progress report: an analysis of gender and administration in doctoral candidature', Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 155-171.
- Mewburn, I, Freund, K & Rutherford, E 2014, 'Badge trouble: piloting open badges at the Australian National University', Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology, ed. B Hegarty, J McDonald, SK Loke, ASCILITE: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Dunedin New Zealand, pp. 643-648.
- Corbett, J, Macintyre, A & Mewburn, I 2014, 'Functional Dystopia: Diversity, Contestability and New Media in the Academy', in Margaret Thornton (ed.), Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 195-208.
- Mewburn, I & Thompson, P 2013, 'Why do academics blog? An analysis of audiences, purposes and challenges', Studies in Higher Education, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 1105-1119.
- Mewburn, I 2012, 'Creative doctoral work', in Carey Denholm and Terry Evans (ed.), Doctorates Downunder: Keys to Successful Doctoral Study in Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand, Australian Council for Educational Research Press, Melbourne Australia, pp. 126-136.
- Mewburn, I 2012, 'Lost in translation: Reconsidering reflective practice and design studio pedagogy', Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 363-379.
- Mewburn, I 2011, 'Troubling talk: assembling the PhD candidate', Studies in Continuing Education, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 321-332.
- Barnacle, R & Mewburn, I 2010, 'Learning networks and the journey of 'becoming doctor'', Studies in Higher Education, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 433-444.
- Maher, A & Mewburn, I 2007, 'An Economy of Knowledge: Research, Architectural Practice and Knowledge (in) Translation', 'Being Heard' Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference EPIC 2007, ed. Melissa Cefkin, Ken Anderson, Wiley Online Library, online, pp. 258-269.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- PostAc Individual A speciality job search engine for researchers (Primary Investigator)
- Development of a Learning Interface Platform for use in Machine Learning System Coding (Primary Investigator)
- Tracking Trends in Industry Demand for Australia's Advanced Research Workforce: Pilot Study (BCS 06-2015-1-SEEK) (Primary Investigator)
- INSIGNIA: An open badge system for research training and supervision at ANU (Primary Investigator)
