scholarly journals Mind the evaluation gap: reviewing the assessment of architectural research in the Netherlands

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank van der Hoeven
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Assess Quality ◽  
Quality Assessments

The definition of research quality is directly linked to public funding access in countries like the United Kingdom, Australia and the Netherlands. Architecture, as a design discipline, faces the problem that it has limited access to these resources. It experiences a so-called evaluation gap. Its research performance does not easily fit the conventional moulds commonly used to assess quality. Assessments are increasingly based on the analysis of indexed journals, while indexes (such as the ISI) have, so far, mostly neglected the arts and humanities to which architecture may be assumed to belong. Schools of architecture have to face this matter head-on if they want to survive in times of austerity, and they need to do so sooner rather than later. They have to decide whether they want to continue to push for the acceptance of discipline-specific performance indicators or whether they would rather adapt to the standards and dissemination practices that characterise more established fields of scientific research. The direction they choose will inevitably shape future research in architecture.

scholarly journals Secondary use of clinical data in data-gathering, non-interventional research or learning activities: definition, types, and a framework for risk assessment (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Jungkunz ◽  
Anja Köngeter ◽  
Katja Mehlis ◽  
Eva C. Winkler ◽  
Christoph Schickhardt
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Secondary Use ◽  
Definition Of

UNSTRUCTURED Background: The secondary use of clinical data in data-gathering, non-interventional research or learning activities (SeConts) bears great potential for scientific progress and health care improvement. At the same time, it poses relevant risks for privacy and informational self-determination of the patients whose data are used. A tailored framework for risk assessment in SeConts is still lacking and so does a clarification of the concept and practical scope of SeConts. Methods: (1) We analyze each element of the concept of SeConts to provide a synthetic definition. (2) We investigate the practical relevance and scope of SeConts through a literature review. (3) We operationalize the widespread definition of risk (as a harmful event of a certain magnitude that occurs with a certain probability) in order to conduct a tailored analysis of privacy risk factors typically implied in SeConts. Results: (1) We offer a conceptual clarification and a definition of SeConts. (2) We provide a list of types of research and learning activities that can be subsumed under the definition of SeConts. We also offer a proposal for the classification of SeConts types into the categories “non-interventional (observational) clinical research”, “quality control and improvement”, or “public health research”. (3) We provide a list of risk factors that determine either probability or magnitude of harm implied in SeConts. Discussion: The risk factors mentioned above provide a framework for assessing the privacy-related risks for patients implied in SeConts. We illustrate the usage of the risk assessment by applying it to a concrete example. Conclusion: In the future, research ethics committees and data use and access committees will be able to rely on and apply the framework offered here when reviewing projects of secondary use of clinical data for learning and research purposes.

scholarly journals Introducing the new culture section of BJPsych Bulletin

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
David Foreman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Psychiatric Service ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Article Type ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Regulatory Culture

SummaryThis editorial launches the new culture section in the journal. Without any unchallengeable definition of ‘culture’, potential contributors may consider submissions under four headings: the arts and humanities relating to practice; regulatory culture; becoming a cultured practitioner; and psychiatry's cultural context. A new article type, ‘Cultural reflections’, has been created, and submissions may reflect any appropriate methodology, including those from the arts. Peer review (from methodologies outside psychiatry if appropriate) will assure quality. Our objectives are to establish BJPsych Bulletin as the ‘journal of record’ for cultural studies relevant to psychiatric service delivery and demonstrate equivalent quality between them and scientific studies.

scholarly journals Critical, agentic and trans-media: Frameworks and findings from a foresight analysis exercise on audiences

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 535-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjana Das ◽  
Brita Ytre-Arne
Keyword(s):  
Research Priorities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Audience Analysis ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Analysis Task ◽  
The Future

We write this article presenting frameworks and findings from an international network on audience research, as we stand 75 years from Herta Herzog’s classic investigation of radio listeners, published in Lazarsfeld and Stanton’s 1944 war edition of Radio Research. The article aims to contribute to and advance a rich strand of self-reflexive stock-taking and sorting of future research priorities within the transforming field of audience analysis, by drawing on the collective efforts of CEDAR – Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research – a 14-country network (2015–2018) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom, which conducted a foresight analysis exercise on developing current trends and future scenarios for audiences and audience research in the year 2030. First, we wish to present the blueprint of what we did and how we did it – by discussing the questions, contexts and frameworks for our project. We hope this is useful for anyone considering a foresight analysis task, an approach we present as an innovative and rigorous tool for assessing and understanding the future of a field. Second, we present findings from our analysis of pivotal transformations in the field and the future scenarios we constructed for audiences, as media technologies rapidly change with the arrival of the Internet of Things and changes on many levels occur in audience practices. These findings not only make sense of a transformative decade that we have just lived through but they present possibilities for the future, outlining areas for individual and collective intellectual commitment.

scholarly journals Secondary Use of Clinical Data in Data-Gathering, Non-Interventional Research or Learning Activities: Definition, Types, and a Framework for Risk Assessment

10.2196/26631 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. e26631
Author(s):  
Martin Jungkunz ◽  
Anja Köngeter ◽  
Katja Mehlis ◽  
Eva C Winkler ◽  
Christoph Schickhardt
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Secondary Use ◽  
Definition Of

Background The secondary use of clinical data in data-gathering, non-interventional research or learning activities (SeConts) has great potential for scientific progress and health care improvement. At the same time, it poses relevant risks for the privacy and informational self-determination of patients whose data are used. Objective Since the current literature lacks a tailored framework for risk assessment in SeConts as well as a clarification of the concept and practical scope of SeConts, we aim to fill this gap. Methods In this study, we analyze each element of the concept of SeConts to provide a synthetic definition, investigate the practical relevance and scope of SeConts through a literature review, and operationalize the widespread definition of risk (as a harmful event of a certain magnitude that occurs with a certain probability) to conduct a tailored analysis of privacy risk factors typically implied in SeConts. Results We offer a conceptual clarification and definition of SeConts and provide a list of types of research and learning activities that can be subsumed under the definition of SeConts. We also offer a proposal for the classification of SeConts types into the categories non-interventional (observational) clinical research, quality control and improvement, or public health research. In addition, we provide a list of risk factors that determine the probability or magnitude of harm implied in SeConts. The risk factors provide a framework for assessing the privacy-related risks for patients implied in SeConts. We illustrate the use of risk assessment by applying it to a concrete example. Conclusions In the future, research ethics committees and data use and access committees will be able to rely on and apply the framework offered here when reviewing projects of secondary use of clinical data for learning and research purposes.

scholarly journals Public Funding and the “Untamed Wilderness” of Victorian Studies

2010 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Russell M. Wyland1
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
National Foundation ◽  
Capitol Hill ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Victorian studies emerged, like many interdisciplinary fields, during the 1950s and 1960s. While scholars today accept the validity of interdisciplinary work, it was not always so, and early issues of Victorian Studies and the Victorian Periodicals Newsletter reflect both scholars’ excitement over the prospect of interdisciplinary work and their hesitation in the face of an “untamed wilderness.” The same forces that gave rise to Victorian studies had their equivalent on Capitol Hill with passage of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965. This essay explores the relationship between the emerging field of Victorian studies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The debates and methodological discussions that shaped the founding of the field left scholars well positioned to take advantage of opportunities offered by the Endowment. NEH-supported projects such as Walter Houghton’s Wellesley Index shaped Victorian studies in profound ways, and Victorian studies, in turn, helped shape the Endowment.

scholarly journals Benchmarking: An International Comparison

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Tower ◽  
Brenda Ridgewell
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

The study examines the impact of national research assessment exercises for the accounting and visual arts disciplines. Analysis is also made of the impact of a national research quality assessment exercise of New Zealand and UK initiatives (Tertiary Education Commission. 2004; RAE, 2001) and well as the proposed Australian RQF (2005). We find that whilst the definition of research is broad enough to include most of the activities of accounting and finance, and visual arts academia the actual measures of research performance may be problematic. The need to clearly demonstrate quality peer review is the largest hurdle especially for visual arts academics with their individualist and independent mindset. Whilst visual arts and, accounting and finance academia research performance activity was ranked low in both the UK and NZ, we conclude that that the focus on output quality and peer assessment offers a potentially broader and more accurate depiction of activity. Obtaining a balanced broader assessment of both traditional performance measures such as research publications of accounting and finance along with the more creative elements of visual arts such as exhibitions is paramount. We also make a call for more research training for both disciplines to assist them in the recognition of quality research productivity.

Arts and Humanities Engagement: An Integrative Conceptual Framework for Psychological Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yerin Shim ◽  
Louis Tay ◽  
Michaela Ward ◽  
James O. Pawelski
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Review ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts

Psychologists are increasingly interested in studying the psychological effects of engaging with various forms of the arts and humanities because of their significance and ubiquity in human life. There is, however, a lack of a robust conceptual framework to support a systematic and integrative approach to the study of the psychological effects of the arts and humanities. Through an extensive review of the extant literature on conceptual and operational definitions of the arts and humanities engagement from historical, institutional, and disciplinary perspectives, the present article further expands an initial conceptualization of the arts and humanities presented in Tay, Pawelski, and Keith. The implications and limitations of the integrative conceptual framework of arts and humanities engagement, as well as directions for future research, are discussed.

scholarly journals Qualitative Research Methods in Translation Theory

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110407
Author(s):  
Dominic Glynn
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Social Sciences Citation Index

This article analyses different methodological approaches adopted by theoretical articles published in translation studies journals. To account for the range of perspectives, a small corpus comprising articles from three journals listed in both the Thomson and Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) was studied. The article discusses how the methods used could gain in rigor from being formalized. It begins by defining translation theory before outlining a corpus of articles to be studied. It then moves onto describing and discussing four methodologies to provide recommendations for conducting future research in translation theory.

Applying personalized medicine to adult severe asthma

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. e8-e16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelica Tiotiu
Keyword(s):  
Personalized Medicine ◽  
Severe Asthma ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Target Therapy ◽  
Asthma Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Biologic Therapies ◽  
Eosinophilic Asthma ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Structured Approach

Background: Severe asthma is a heterogeneous disease that consists of various phenotypes driven by different pathways. Associated with significant morbidity, an important negative impact on the quality of life of patients, and increased health care costs, severe asthma represents a challenge for the clinician. With the introduction of various antibodies that target type 2 inflammation (T2) pathways, severe asthma therapy is gradually moving to a personalized medicine approach. Objective: The purpose of this review was to emphasize the important role of personalized medicine in adult severe asthma management. Methods: An extensive research was conducted in medical literature data bases by applying terms such as “severe asthma” associated with “structured approach,” “comorbidities,” “biomarkers,” “phenotypes/endotypes,” and “biologic therapies.” Results: The management of severe asthma starts with a structured approach to confirm the diagnosis, assess the adherence to medications and identify confounding factors and comorbidities. The definition of phenotypes or endotypes (phenotypes defined by mechanisms and identified through biomarkers) is an important step toward the use of personalized medicine in asthma. Severe allergic and nonallergic eosinophilic asthma are two defined T2 phenotypes for which there are efficacious targeted biologic therapies currently available. Non-T2 phenotype remains to be characterized, and less efficient target therapy exists. Conclusion: Despite important progress in applying personalized medicine to severe asthma, especially in T2 inflammatory phenotypes, future research is needed to find valid biomarkers predictive for the response to available biologic therapies to develop more effective therapies in non-T2 phenotype.

Bottlenecks in the Implementation of On-Site Wastewater Treatment Plants on a Large Scale in The Netherlands

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 291-298
Author(s):  
Frits A. Fastenau ◽  
Jaap H. J. M. van der Graaf ◽  
Gerard Martijnse
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Domestic Wastewater ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Definition Of

More than 95 % of the total housing stock in the Netherlands is connected to central sewerage systems and in most cases the wastewater is treated biologically. As connection to central sewerage systems has reached its economic limits, interest in on-site treatment of the domestic wastewater of the remaining premises is increasing. A large scale research programme into on-site wastewater treatment up to population equivalents of 200 persons has therefore been initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment. Intensive field-research work did establish that the technological features of most on-site biological treatment systems were satisfactory. A large scale implementation of these systems is however obstructed in different extents by problems of an organisational, financial and/or juridical nature and management difficulties. At present research is carried out to identify these bottlenecks and to analyse possible solutions. Some preliminary results are given which involve the following ‘bottlenecks':-legislation: absence of co-ordination and absence of a definition of ‘surface water';-absence of subsidies;-ownership: divisions in task-setting of Municipalities and Waterboards; divisions involved with cost-sharing;-inspection; operational control and maintenance; organisation of management;-discharge permits;-pollution levy;-sludge disposal. Final decisions and practical elaboration of policies towards on-site treatment will have to be formulated in a broad discussion with all the authorities and interest groups involved.

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