Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
The Power of Fuzzy Expectations: Enhancing Equity in Australian Higher Education
Having experienced firsthand the transformational power of education, the authors wanted to shed light on the contemporary challenges faced by regional and remote university students.
Survey Suggests University Researchers Feel Powerless to Take Climate Change Action
To feel able to contribute to climate action, researchers say they need to know what actions to take, how their institutions will support them and space in their workloads to do it.
There’s Something in the Air, Part 2 – But It’s Not a Miasma
Robert Dingwall looks at the once dominant role that miasmatic theory had in public health interventions and public policy.
A Former Student Reflects on How Daniel Kahneman Changed Our Understanding of Human Nature
Daniel Read argues that one way the late Daniel Kahneman stood apart from other researchers is that his work was driven by a desire not merely to contribute to a research field, but to create new fields.
Three Decades of Rural Health Research and a Bumper Crop of Insights from South Africa
A longitudinal research project project covering 31 villages in rural South Africa has led to groundbreaking research in many fields, including genomics, HIV/Aids, cardiovascular conditions and stroke, cognition and aging.
Daniel Kahneman, 1934-2024: The Grandfather of Behavioral Economics
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, whose psychological insights in both the academic and the public spheres revolutionized how we approach economics, has died […]
Using Translational Research as a Model for Long-Term Impact
Drawing on the findings of a workshop on making translational research design principles the norm for European research, Gabi Lombardo, Jonathan Deer, Anne-Charlotte Fauvel, Vicky Gardner and Lan Murdock discuss the characteristics of translational research, ways of supporting cross disciplinary collaboration, and the challenges and opportunities of adopting translational principles in the social sciences and humanities.
Putting People at the Heart of the Research Process
In this article, Jessica Weaver, Philippa Hunter-Jones, and Rory Donnelly reflect on “Unlocking the Full Potential of Transformative Service Research by Embedding Collaboration Throughout the Research Process,” which can be found in the Journal of Service Research.
