A conversation with  and call to action from  Andrew J. Hoffman

There is a small moment in the show with some racy language, for a bleeped versions – head here: https://soundcloud.com/cjlo1690am/the-worlds-we-want-ep-8

About our guest

Andrew (Andy) J. Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Environment and Sustainability.

A small selection of Andy’s publications for general audiences:

• How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
• Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling
• Let’s Put Malcolm Gladwell Out of Business

• “In praise of ‘B’ journals: Academic publishing is becoming more about establishing a pecking order and less about pursuing knowledge,” Inside Higher Education. March 27 (2017).

• “Isolated scholars: Making bricks, not shaping policy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 9 (2015).

• “Deconstructing the ivory tower: Business schools’ reliance on theory-driven research ignores the pressing needs of real-world managers,” Corporate Responsibility Officer, January/February: 44-46 (2009).

Other, related, reads from Andy Hoffman

• Hoffman, A. (2015) “Reflections: Academia’s emerging crisis of relevance and the consequent role of the engaged scholar,” Journal of Change Management, DOI:10.1080/14697017.2015.1128168
• Hoffman, A. (2013) “Academic engagement in public and political discourse: Establishing the rules of the game,” Michigan Journal of Sustainability, 1(1): 5-13.

Things mentioned in the show

To Read:

• Forscher, B. K. (1963). Chaos in the brickyard. Science, 142(3590), 339.
• Hofstadter, R. (1963). Anti-intellectualism in American Life.(3. Print.) (Vol. 713). Vintage.
• Lubchenco, J. (2017). Delivering on science’s social contract. Michigan Journal of Sustainability, 5(1) Or you may watch/listen to her reflections on this topic here.
• Nat Geo, March 2015, The War on Science
• Pielke Jr, R. A. (2007). The honest broker: making sense of science in policy and politics. Cambridge University Press. Or you may watch/listen to his reflections on this topic here.
• 5 Panel Discussion: Presidents Crow, Hanlon, Sullivan, and Schlissel, Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Proceedings of the Michigan Meeting, May 2015

Music featured in this episode:

• Intro “” and “Lay it on me” by Best Fern
• Outro “Plans fall through” by Alexia AvinaMusic

We also make use of a lot of material from Freesound.org — like Setuniman’s piano loop 0Y83, Lemoncreme’s Ambient Piano Music #1, embracetheart’s City Traffic (Outdoor), Piano, Bach Fantasia, AdamJordaan140087’s pouring water

Places for academics to share their work 

• the Conversation
• the Monkey Cage

On Measuring Impact

• Altmetirc
• Impact Story

Other interesting things to consider

• Stoney brook /Alen Alda 
• Relate at University of Michigan: Making Science Communication A Conversation
• My Effing First Amendment, episode of This American Life mentioned in the show 
• On Google Scholar — from Google, more thoughts from the University of Minnesota, and a critique from Impact Story. 

Looking for academics with specific expertise? Consider these websites:

• Women Also Know Stuff is an initiative with the objective of helping women academics publicize their expertise. You’ll find a bank of women scholars, their expertise and what there looking to do to publicize their work (e.g. interview, serve as panelist, etc).
• People of Colour Also Know Stuff is a similar initiative, but for visible minorities. 

If you want to SEE Andy Hoffman give the entire presentation “Academia’s Crisis of Relevance and the Emergent Role of the Engaged Scholar” (it’s worth it just to see his sweet sabbatical beard) check it out here:

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