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Hannah Pethen Barrett’s excellent hands-on workshop on “Building your website, establishing your research identity” is now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K3-IFH40zs on our NCIS YouTube channel. You will also need to download the PDF document provided by Hannah.

NCIS member and grant award recipient Dr Doaa El Shereef has shared some news of her latest academic exploits. She writes:” I participated as an Independent Scholar and a member of NCIS in 6th International Conference on Culture and History (ICCH 2022) that was held in Paris, France during July 25-27, 2022 and the conference […]

Congratulations to military historian Neil Dukas, author of “A Military History of Sovereign Hawai‘i” and “The Battle of Nu‘uanu, 1795” whose new book “Sometime in Africa” has just been published.Sometime in Africa The year was 1983. Convinced his college education was incomplete, Neil Dukas, set out on an ill-considered 14,000-mile journey on the cheap across the […]

We’re proud to announce that no fewer than three British independent scholars, all Full members of NCIS and also of our Partner Group FIRE-UK, have had their contributions accepted for the #WIASN publication ResearcHER. They are Dr Linda Baines (business management), Dr Helen Ross (dyslexia speicalist) and Dr Jasmine Shadrack (sociomusicologist)This book features female researchers talking about “their journey into research and […]

Congratulations to NCIS Communications Officer Kathleen Stein-Smith, whose latest article, “The Independent Scholar as Change Agent: The Case of Foreign Language Advocacy,” has been accepted (with revisions, of course :)) for publication in the Journal of Language Teaching and Research in late summer. http://www.academypublication.com/jltr/