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Category Archives: Transformative Research
The meaning of ‘transformative research’ | AAAS MemberCentral
Bob Frodeman and I have another post about transformative research. Making great headway on the workshop report/white paper, too. Stay tuned! The meaning of ‘transformative research’ | AAAS MemberCentral.
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Good Transformations — Science Progress
Bob Frodeman, Kelli Barr, and I combined forces to present this first take on the recent Workshop on Transformative Research we ran at National Science Foundation headquarters in Arlington, VA. This was a good workshop involving some really good — … Continue reading
What is Knowledge Mobilisation and Why Does it Matter to Universities? « Mobilize This!
Essential reading for all those concerned with accountability and impact! What is Knowledge Mobilisation and Why Does it Matter to Universities? « Mobilize This!.
Doing Transformative Research | Reflexivity
@stephjoke weighs in with her account of experimenting with Tweets from the NSF Transformative Research workshop (#NSFTR). Doing Transformative Research | Reflexivity.
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The ‘most important questions’ in science policy
A group of scientists in Britain has authored a list of the 40 most pressing, unanswered questions concerning the intersection of science and public policy, the result of a workshop at Cambridge University. Some have met the exercise with open … Continue reading
Innovation for the People, by the People – NYTimes.com
Obama’s innovation strategy includes giving Federal agencies wide latitude to offer prizes to link innovation with specific national needs. Would be interesting to see how the competitions are judged. Without checking, my bet would be peer review. Innovation for the … Continue reading
Our research must eventually become irrelevant: this is how to prove we had an impact on policymaking | Impact of Social Sciences
Sounds kinda right to me: Our research must eventually become irrelevant: this is how to prove we had an impact on policymaking | Impact of Social Sciences. It’s an interesting spin on Steve Fuller’s Schumpeterian reading of teaching: we destroy … Continue reading
NSF Tweaks Its Merit Review Rules – ScienceInsider
Jeffrey Mervis on NSB’s decision and report on NSF’s merit review criteria. Still digesting the report, which is quite substantial. But it looks as if NSB and the Task Force on Merit Review did a bang-up job. Highlights include: Retaining … Continue reading
Democratizing Science
Senior Fellow Steve Fuller publishes a new piece in Logos & Episteme: The question in the title is addressed in three parts. First, I associate the democratisation of science with the rise of ‗Protscience‘ (i.e. ‗Protestant Science‘), which pertains to the long-term … Continue reading
Don’t Let What You Know Limit What You Imagine | LinkedIn
A thought-provoking blog from Bill Taylor about a book written by Cynthia Barton Rabe. In her underappreciated book, The Innovation Killer, Cynthia Barton Rabe, a former innovation strategist at Intel, explains how “what we know limits what we can imagine.” … Continue reading
Militarized Millipedes?
Thinking about the broader impacts of an “army of cyborg insects” is probably worth doing…and not just because of NSF funding criteria. There’s some pretty wild hubris in the BBC article below – most likely a mix of sensationalistic journalism … Continue reading
A Primer on Field Philosophy
Our concept of field philosophy could use some elaboration. Our tack has been to define it in contrast with applied philosophy. We have, I think, made three points. First is the question of audience. Applied philosophy assumes a disciplinary audience–(applied) … Continue reading
Citizen science takes off — but do we know where it’s going?
Anyone interested in innovation and accountability ought to read this article, which simultaneously raises a host of fascinating issues and evokes the feeling of the sublime. Citizen Science Takes Off: Could Community Labs Hatch the Next Generation of Bio Innovators? … Continue reading
Faster than Light Paradigm
Thomas Kuhn would be ecstatic at the next paradigm busting that might open a shift in our thinking… Nothing is supposed to move faster than light, at least according to Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity: The famous E (equals) mc2 … Continue reading
Having Fun & Doing Research
Where the human mind trumps the human created algorithm: …a microscope gives only a flat image of what to the outsider looks like a plate of one-dimensional scrunched-up spaghetti. Pharmacologists, though, need a 3-D picture that “unfolds” the molecule and … Continue reading
Mesa Verde, Interdisciplinarity: Endpoints… Process…
Update on a previous post by Steve Wolverton The Mesa Verde team has now persisted through many months, and these blog posts represent initial products of our experiment to tell the stories of our experiences in the field through the … Continue reading
Cutting Edge Mapping Science Exhibit
CSID is a proud co-sponsor of the Spaces & Places: Mapping Science exhibit. The University of North Texas is pleased to be the first Texas host of this important exhibit as well as the world premier site for the 7th set of … Continue reading
Hiding on-going enclosures behind buzzwords
Big Buzzword on Campus: Is “Convergence” a Revolution in Science or Simply Jargon?: Scientific American. Scientific American editors are right to ask if the hot new term “convergence” is just more jargon for the academy or an actual new Zeitgeist, … Continue reading