Whatever we call it, investment in research will lead the way to important short- and long-term discoveries.
For the last three years, the university has been sending newly minted doctors to this isolated territory to practise rural and remote medicine.
Is it best to start from scratch, or to retrofit an existing institution?
The aim is to bring an end to “colonial approaches” that have traditionally excluded Inuit from research planning processes.
“When we noticed that people were using university or grant money for these conferences, we had to put a stop to it,” said one department chair.
New Zealand’s chief scientist Peter Gluckman was among a trio of advisers offering their insights at the recent AAAS annual meeting.
University consortium partners with Beijing to remove barriers for Canadians to study there.
Over the years, academic freedom has been both recognized and constrained, based on the particular historical context.
Where the plan goes off track is the system-wide metrics it uses to assess research excellence and impact.
With the shut-down scheduled for March, a group of researchers is lobbying the government to fund foreign facilities, or risk losing local expertise.
Research today is about partnerships and networks to share data and ideas, and to answer the big questions that confront us.
