Design lab connects autism families with research
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the most common neurological disorder in children and it is impacting our society in profound ways. In Canada, more than 515,000 people are affected and approximately 87,000 of these are school age. ASD now affects one in 68 births. And, given this prevalence rate, it is estimated that there are 60,000 people affected by ASD in British Columbia alone. More...
Higher education cuts will be felt in the classroom, not the lab
In a recent Productivity Commission report, the bias of universities in favour of research over teaching was exposed. More...
The Black Box Problem
There’s another fascinating study out from the Stanford History Education Group, the folks who studied high school and college students’ capacity to figure out what news is fake, finding that they don’t really know how to do that. More...
Connecting on Climate Change Research
11 Research Universities Start Aid Initiative
By Ashley A. Smith. A consortium of research universities announced today that it is starting a new initiative to provide students with grants that help them face financial challenges as they near graduation. More...
Making Research Matter: A Public Challenge to Scholars
Academics need to reach across political and ideological divides to bring their research expertise to bear on the policy issues of the day, writes Linda Stamato. More...
REF2021: Where are we on interdisciplinary research?
The UK funding bodies have recently published initial decisions (REF2017/01) for the development of REF2021 and have now opened sub-panel nominations which include a specific role with duties related to IDR. More...
Research workloads (Advocate 24 03)
When we first started working in academia, we were confused about workload measurement in EFTSLs. It took us a while to figure out the effective full-time student load for an hour-long lecture to 150 people was the same as six hour-long tutorials. How absurd! So, no wonder we were feeling under the pump. More...
Les caractéristiques socioprofessionnelles des chercheurs en entreprise en 2015 - Note Flash n°16 - Octobre 2017
En 2015, parmi les 348 000 personnes travaillant en entreprise aux activités de recherche et développement (R&D) en France, 226 000 occupent la fonction de chercheur. La force de travail correspondante est de 166 000 chercheurs équivalents temps plein. Les chercheurs en entreprise sont relativement jeunes (la moitié ont moins de 39 ans), majoritairement des hommes (80 %) et issus d’une école d’ingénieur (à 56 % contre 12% de titulaires d’un doctorat). Cependant, ce profil moyen est dépendant de la taille de l’entreprise et surtout de son secteur de recherche. Environ 12 000 chercheurs de nationalité étrangère mènent leur activité R&D dans une entreprise implantée en France, soit 5 % des chercheurs en entreprise. Plus...