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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"research culture"”.
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Embedding a Culture of Research in Canadian Community Hospitals
This study aims to understand how research culture is experienced and shaped in Canadian community hospitals to provide strategies for strengthening community hospital research culture. This qualitative interpretive study employed Schein’s Model of Organizational Culture as a theoretical framework …
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Publish or Perish? An investigation into research publication milieus in a differentiated higher education sector: two case studies
… requirements for all universities to do research and to be rated in similar terms according to a single set of research-related criteria is slowly eroding the basis of differentiation. This research study attempts to understand research and publication milieus and cultures in a …
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A Conceptual Framework for Research at Canadian Colleges
… regional economic development) by incorporating research into their traditional programs. However, the recent dramatic growth of research cultures at colleges is occurring in an unsystematic and uncoordinated manner. The purpose of this thesis is to address this issue by proposing a …
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London Zoo, Commercial Television, and Primate Ethology from the Launch of ITV to The Naked Ape
… of apish instincts overlaid by a thin veneer of culture - of ‘man’, ‘the naked ape’ - were built on British commercial television. It highlights TV as a major arena of science and cultural politics, while also unpicking its intermedial relations with other technologies of expert and mass …
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All in Good Time: The Evolving Role of Faculty in Ontario Colleges
… consider whether or not the decision to create a research culture at the colleges included making time available to the professoriate to engage in applied research activities. Web content was analyzed to select four Ontario colleges at various stages of research evolution using D.J. Madder’s …
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Postgraduate Student Success: A Case Study of the South African Military Academy
… success allows HEIs to not only improve the research experience of the postgraduate students, but also improve the research output and student throughput rates of the institution. Researchers assert that it is important to explore the research experience of postgraduate students to improve …
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The research support needs and expectations of emerging researchers employed at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s Faculty of Education: a case study
Providing research support services is an important role and function of an academic library. Nationally and internationally, academic institutions are under pressure to improve the quality and quantity of their research outputs. An important aspect in developing a research culture is the provision …
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Free movement of scientists within the European Research Area: an analysis of the Cypriot research market
… mobility/migration’ of EU and non-EU scientists, researchers and doctoral candidates within the European Research Area (ERA), focusing on the legal and policy framework of Cyprus. This work is at the intersection of the ERA framework, the Area of Freedom Security and Justice and the free movement …
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Barriers to clinical research in Africa, a quantitative and qualitative survey of 27 African countries
Background There is a need for high quality research to improve perioperative patient care in Africa. The aim of this study was to understand the particular barriers to clinical research in this environment. Methods Electronic survey of African Surgical Outcomes Study (ASOS) investigators, …
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Building `capacity' for education research among scholars of the global South: Learning from the case of an international research collaboration in Tanzania
… production vis-à-vis a case study of one research collaboration between scholars based in Tanzania and the United States. The Teaching in Action Research Project involved nine faculty based in Tanzania in an applied, multi-sited team ethnography that examined aspects of pedagogical …
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Immersive, Participatory, Community-Based Research and Learning
… immersive, participatory, community-based research. Using a multimodal design, the three studies document the scholarly progression from discovery, through practice and development of pedagogical methods, to immersive field research. The research design is inclusive of Texas Woman’s …
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Doing the heavy lifting: the experiences of working-class professional services and administrative staff in Russell Group universities
… historically problematic statues, reviewing research culture environments, and renaming university buildings (Chigudu, 2021; Heath et al, 2013). Research has sought to understand how people from different 'non-traditional' backgrounds experience these institutions (Reay, 2017b). At present, …
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Methods, paradigms, and practices: Advancing Dissemination and Implementation Science
… Activity Guidelines for Americans. To bridge the research-practice gap, Dissemination and Implementation (DandI) Science has emerged as the study of how evidence-based interventions, programs, and policies are integrated in typical settings. Recent research illustrates barriers to conducting DandI …
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Understanding the impact of culture on business IT alignment within a South African parastatal
… adapt their strategies together. Previous research on BITA has focused more on formal structures such as reporting structures, decision-making rights and centralisation vs decentralisation, rather than informal structures such as relationship-based structures, including organisational …
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Overcoming Avoidable Research Waste in Carious Lesion Management Research
… health and wellbeing. <br/><br/>Relevant research has not always resulted in widespread adoption of novel techniques and approaches. This is, in part, due to limitations arising from the avoidable waste resulting from issues with the conduct of the research.<br/><br/>This thesis explores …
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Nursing staff experiences and responses to violence and aggression in the emergency department: a grounded theory study
… a well recognised, global phenomenon. Published research exploring ED violence and aggression however is limited, both numerically, and in terms of quality and sophistication. The literature review conducted for this study identified very few studies that considered defining violence and …
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Collaborating and learning in strategic international university partnerships at the research faculty and administrator levels between the US and Europe
… is one of the first major empirical studies on research faculty and administrative collaborations in the context of seed grant-based strategic international university partnerships (IUPs), designed as a multiple case study. The partnership at focus is between two large, comprehensive, public …
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The discourse of cultural leadership.
… been transformed since the term was coined. This research investigates the evolution of cultural leadership as a discursive formation in these contexts. It traces the short history of the term itself and situates it within longer trajectories of cultural policy. Through critical discourse analysis …