Two Applied Research Projects: Spatial Impacts and Potentials of ICTs

2015 ◽  
pp. 39-72
Author(s):  
Corinna Morandi ◽  
Andrea Rolando ◽  
Stefano Di Vita
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Spatial Impacts

Researching Alternative Cash Crops for Small Scale Farmers in Southern Ohio

HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 530a-530
Author(s):  
Brad Bergefurd ◽  
Gary Gao
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Extension Agents ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Cash Crops ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
Culinary Herbs ◽  
Small Scale Farmers

Speciality crops are great alternative cash crops for small scale farmers. Small scale farmers are constantly searching for viable economic crops to grow. We have been conducting applied research on the production and marketing of culinary herbs, oriental vegetables, colored peppers, and muskmelons to name a few. These crops show excellent potential for southern Ohio. Field demonstration, seminars, and surveys were used to gather and disseminate information on these speciality crops. More than 230 people attended our seminars on alternative cash crops. More than 150 people attended our field days. In addition, we had identified many chefs that are willing to purchase from local speciality crop growers. It will be a win-win situation for both chefs and growers. Growers will be able to maximize their profitability while chefs will receive fresh and unique produce. As a result of our research, we were able to show small scale growers what they can grow successfully and how they can market their crops for most profit. These applied research projects received a combined funding of $10000.00 from OSU Extension-Innovative Grant program. These projects are a great way to establish credibility among clients. We would also like to demonstrate how other extension agents can help their clients. A lecture utilizing slides and overhead transparencies will be the format of the seminar.

scholarly journals Creative Activism: a pedagogical and research tool

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
A Value ◽  
External Threat ◽  
Outreach Programme ◽  
Activist Groups

Environmental activism has a long history in protest, addressing issues of degradation and segregation that threaten existing ecologies, social and built fabrics. Environmental activism is traditionally understood as a reaction, chiefly by groups of people, against a perceived external threat. In the 60’s and 70’s, an activist stance began to emerge in the work of some artists and architects, who used creative methods such as performances, happenings, temporary spatial interventions etc to convey their political/aesthetic messages. Some of this work engaged directly with communities but predominantly it was the production of one individual working ‘outside’ society. However such actions demonstrated not only the power of the visual in conveying a political message but also the potential of conceptual creative approaches to reveal alternative values and hidden potentials. This marked a shift from activism as protestation towards an activism of reconceptualisation. Recently, activist groups have developed a more politically informed process. Whilst their ‘tools’ may resemble work from the 60’s and 70’s, their methodologies are nontraditional, ’rhizomatic’, pedagogical and fluid; working alongside, rather than against, the established power and funding structures. Such creative processes build new, often unexpected, stakeholder networks; offer neutral spaces in which contentious issues can be faced; and create better understanding of values and identities. They can also lead to permanent improvements and development in the physical fabric. This paper will discuss a pedagogical example of activism in architectural education. The event (www.fourdaysontheoutside.com) is in its fifth year of existence and as such has revealed a value and impulse beyond its learning and teaching value. The paper will discuss how the event contributes to the university’s outreach programme and how its structure acts as a seedbed for potential research projects and partnerships. UK Universities talk extensively about applied research but have few actual strategies by which to generate it. Fourdaysontheoutside offers some potential ways forward.

Making It Count: Using Real-World Projects for Course Assignments

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-324
Author(s):  
Jason Wollschleger
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Real World ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Course Evaluations ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Evaluation Scores ◽  
Previous Scholarship

Previous scholarship has demonstrated the value of high-impact practices of community engagement, inquiry-based pedagogy, and collaborative learning for engagement and learning in sociology courses, especially undergraduate research methods and statistics. This article explores the changes made to an upper-division undergraduate course focused on applied research practices and community-level interventions. After teaching the course once as a lecture-based course with assignments that simulated real projects and receiving poor student evaluation scores, I revised the course by partnering with local nonprofit organizations that were in need of research assistance. I turned the major graded assignments into real-world research projects that would ultimately be presented to the local organization, thus making everything actually count—in the real world. The findings from surveys of students, course evaluations, and assessment of group projects suggest that students found this to improve their experience of the course and to increase their learning and engagement of the material and confidence in their ability to conduct applied research on their own.

scholarly journals COASTAL ENGINEERING IN SOUTH AFRICA

1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
K.S. Russell
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Coastal Engineering ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
The South ◽  
Evolution And Development ◽  
Basic And Applied Research ◽  
Historical Movement

The paper presents a review of the historical movement of ships around the South African coastline, traces the evolution and development of the harbours of South Africa, describes the development of coastal engineering and summarises the organisations and their activities in both basic and applied research projects contributing towards coastal works.

Benefits and impacts of THRIP‐supported applied research projects

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-313
Author(s):  
Maurice Oscar Dassah ◽  
Ernst Uken
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
Research Projects

APPLICATIONS OF DECISION TREES TO THE EVALUATION OF APPLIED RESEARCH PROJECTS

1972 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Gear ◽  
J. S. Gillespie ◽  
J. M. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Trees ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Research Projects
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