A Scholarship Web at UWA

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

Meaning for scholars and scholarship at this university, might be found by searching for ‘scholar’ within UWA Web pages on the Campus Wide Information System (CWIS).

Examples found in the search include:

• Nobel Post -Graduate Travel Scholar
• Visiting Scholar
• Medical Scholar
• Indigenous Scholar
• Research Scholar in Education.
• Some of the world’s best scholars are indifferent wordsmiths at best
• Some of the world’s best scholars are indifferent presenters
• ‘proper’ universities are collegial institutions composed of like-minded scholars and students who share a prized tradition of academic study which dates back to at least medieval times and whose academic freedom of thought and questioning is accountable to international and public standards of scholarship
• presented their research work or scholarship to the critical scrutiny of their like-minded colleagues in their own university
• it is by one’s peers nationally and internationally that one’s standing as a university scholar, researcher and teacher is judged...
• the processes of teaching, learning, research and scholarship.
• advance, transmit and sustain knowledge and understanding through the conduct of teaching, research and scholarship
• ‘research’ can be used with a wide meaning to include what has been described as an `entrepot’ function, of being an active repository of knowledge and culture for the community as a whole. It then includes what some describe as ‘scholarship’ in the humanities as distinct from ‘research’ in science.
• everything is affected by our publications status: our chances of employment in the first place, our prospects of gaining tenure and promotion, our credibility when we seek research funding or apply for study leave, and our profile as scholars in the academic community at large
• much of what is written in academic circles nowadays implicitly targets the promotions or tenure committee itself, rather than either the public or the peer community of scholars
• The Macquarie Dictionary defines scholarship as ‘the position of a student who, because of merit, etc, is granted money or other aid to pursue his studies’ and ‘the sum of money or other aid granted to a scholar’.
• your scholarship may expire before the new project has reached completion
• an appeals process for scholarship decisions
• innovation and tradition in the service of scholarship

‘That’s a great deal to make one word mean,’ Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
‘When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘I always pay it extra.’