Topic: Research and innovation
Unpacking the teaching-research nexus and its influence on academic practice
Brad Wuetherick, Director of Undergraduate Student Services in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta looks at how rethinking the teaching-research nexus might enhance both the student and faculty experience of higher education.
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Intellectual property, International issues, Public policy, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission
Disentangling university research policies
G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney (editors). Research and Innovation Policy: Changing Federal Government – University Relations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. David D. Dill and Frans A. Van Vught (editors). National Innovation and the Academic Research Enterprise: Public Policy in Global Perspective. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
READ MOREMedical publishing and the drug industry: IS MEDICAL SCIENCE FOR SALE?
Observation #1 I recently looked at the c.v. of a distinguished professor of medicine and saw that he had authored (most usually […]
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Intellectual property, Journals and publishing, Online education, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Technology
Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age
The Internet has made Open Access publication – the free distribution of scholarly work – a powerful possibility for scholars, administrators and publishers alike. Leslie Chan takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits, and looming challenges, facing this new approach to knowledge dissemination.
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Are physician-scientists a vanishing breed?
Their research builds on the lived experience of patients and the ethical issues created by patient care in a complex, highly technological medical system. What is needed to save them? Andrew. L. Shafer, Vanishing Physician-Scientist? (Cornell University Press, 2009)
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Corporatization and commercialization, International issues, Research and innovation, Technology, Universities and the academic mission
The entrepreneurial university
A look at some institutions are coping with having to balance their traditional commitment to learning, basic research and community outreach with a demanding technology transfer mission. Roger L. Geiger and Creso Sá, Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth (Harvard University Press, 2009)
READ MOREStrange Bedfellows
The call for evidence-informed decisions makes strange bedfellows of researchers and politicians. Researchers and political decision-makers live in different worlds, respond to […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Governance, Research and innovation, Universities and the academic mission
Grappling with academic capitalism in Canadian universities
With the academic culture changing and managerialism threatening collegiality, can academics defect from “corporatization’’ by defining their knowledge as a public good? A review of: The Exchange University: Corporatization of Academic Culture Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher, eds. (UBC Press, 2008)
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Contract faculty, Governance, Public engagement, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission
Getting it “just right”: What’s the right combination of values for universities as they adapt to changing social, economic, and political circumstances?
Debora Rhode. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status and Academic Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Mary Burgan. Whatever Happened to the Faculty: Drift and Decision in Higher Education. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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