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Dr. Paul Tana is a social scientist with the Kenya Agricultural and Livetock Research Organization (KALRO), in Nairobi, KENYA. The organization is responsible for the promotion of sound agricultural research, [...]

SONYA LEGG will be serving as the first permanent director of The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)'s new Center for Ocean Leadership (COL). Legg, who comes to UCAR from [...]

The Kluane Lake Research Station (KLRS) welcomed Megan Leung as its artist in residence in 2022. Megan conducted workshops with KLRS guests, was invited to run a workshop at the [...]

Alexandra Tremblay joined AINA in September 2022 as an information analyst with Data and Information Services (Fig. 1). During Alexandra's post-secondary studies, she worked as a historian, archivist, and special [...]

Journal of International Affairs (JIA): Global Feminism is a debated nomenclature. With the course of feminist movements being largely dependent on their unique social, cultural and geographical contexts, how then, [...]

The individual charged with stewarding the academic research and creative activity enterprise (i.e., Chief Research Officer or Vice President/Chancellor for Research), has tremendous responsibility and influence over the institution's ability to achieve its overall mission. Yet, the skills and knowledge required to successfully serve in this role have not been comprehensively studied. To address this deficiency, we synthesize the views of 78 sitting Chief Research Officers to document the academic and experiential pathways of respondents, their current roles and responsibilities, and future challenges. We provide recommendations for effective ways of preparing future candidates for this important role. Keywords: Chief Research Officer; Vice President/Chancellor for Research; training; experience, A Current Profile and Challenges for the Future American research universities currently face an environment of change, marked by broad opportunities for growth in terms of research development, as well [...]

UNIVERSITY TEACHING-STREAM JOBS that 'unbundle' research from traditional faculty duties now make up a substantial minority of the academic positions at many institutions, including some of the largest (Bradshaw). While [...]

This paper investigates the geographic and professional mobility of scientists employed in Singapore's publicly funded research institutes in various techno-and lifescience specialisations. Using Bourdieu's conceptual framework, we analyse the capital portfolios of individual scientists against the structures of power which have informed Singapore's developmental history, the culture of its westernised political elite and its present day aspirations to become a knowledge-based economy. Using survey and interview data, we examine how individual scientists mobilize their portfolios of social and cultural capital in order to extract maximum value from the transnational field of research and development. These processes of mobilization require individuals to negotiate alignments between their habitus and the political-cultural field in Singapore. This empirical grounding enables us to offer some preliminary ideas about transformations to the scientific habitus. Keywords Knowledge economy * Talent migration * Migration * Capital accumulation strategies * Transnational scientific habitus, Introduction In 1986, in the midst of a recession, the government of Singapore released a document titled, The Singapore Economy: New Directions. It noted the end of 'the period of [...]

The programme's director has resumed his post after being investigated -- but some staff are not happy with the way the case was handled. The programme's director has resumed his post after being investigated -- but some staff are not happy with the way the case was handled., Author(s): Linda Nordling Author Affiliations: Head of Wellcome-funded Malawi health project investigated for bullying The director of a pioneering Malawi-UK research partnership, who stepped aside from his post after being [...]

His Royal Highness Prince Turki Bin Faisal Al-Saud is one of the founders of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. Prince Turki served as the Director of [...]

Colleagues of Alan Cooper, who has been suspended as leader of the prestigious Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, describe a toxic work environment. Colleagues of Alan Cooper, who has been suspended as leader of the prestigious Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, describe a toxic work environment., Author(s): Dyani Lewis Author Affiliations: 'Paralysed by anxiety': researchers speak about life in troubled ancient-DNA lab The University of Adelaide has suspended evolutionary biologist Alan Cooper as head of the [...]

The journal is pleased to publish the abstracts of the six finalists of the 2007 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society's student paper competition. The 2007 prize committee was chaired [...]

The Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, a subunit of Arizona State University's Hispanic Research Center (HRC), is delighted to inaugurate a much-needed publishing resource in Latina/o poetry. Francisco Aragon has recently agreed [...]

GEORGE B. DANTZIG (1914-2005)--OPERATIONS RESEARCH/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE PIONEER, MATHEMATICIAN, PROFESSOR, EDUCATOR, CONSULTANT AND AUTHOR--WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN ESTABLISHING THE O.R. PROFESSION AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING AND ITS APPLICATIONS. ********** DR. […]

Andrew Walker, Professor at the University of Manchester and the director of Northern Aerospace Technology Exploitation Center (NATEC), discusses the various manufacturing techniques and materials that will be used by the aerospace industry in future.

Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory initiated a research program that laid the groundwork for applying nuclear energy to submarine propulsion. It is argued that the Navy, not the Army deserves credit for laying the groundwork for nuclear energy in the United States.

Brookings Institution Senior Fellow and Former Vice Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors Alice Rivlin discusses policy decisions made during her time working for the Federal Reserve and aspects of the future economy.

We are in the midst of a 'research-bourgeois' revolution within higher education in the UK. Part of the global project of neo-liberalism to strengthen the link between money and work, and driven by research assessment, diverse research use-values are being subordinated to homogeneous RAE-value. Academic research workers are becoming alienated from the product of their labour. Once freely available to all academics, 'intellectual commons' - well-stocked library, material security, time and other resources - are being enclosed, access becoming dependent upon production of RAE-value. Two new classes are emerging in academia as some research workers are forced to alienate their own research-labour-power, selling their ability to carry out research work to 'research capitalists', who are able to appropriate a portion of the RAE-value which results.