scholarly journals Looking back at 2018 and ahead to 2019: Royal Society of Biology News

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 48-49
Author(s):  
Mark Downs, CSci FRSB
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Public Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Will Power ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
The Eu

The year ahead will bring big changes; we will be leaving the EU, there will be a UK spending review with implications for research and education budgets, and there will be further visibility of UKRI's strategy for public research funding in action. Despite all these changes, it will be the people and the science, as always, that will power our community and give us focus.

The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas König ◽  
Michael E. Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Public research funding agencies today are required to address proactively interdisciplinary research. “The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research: A Look Inside Public Research Funding Agencies” looks specifically at two funding agencies—the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the EU European Research Council (ERC)—and how these bodies promote interdisciplinarity, on the one hand, and how they claim to identify it, on the other. Inevitably, this gives the funding agencies some definition power over what interdisciplinary research actually is or should be. At the same time, there are organizational constraints that restrict the funding agencies’ capacity to fully embrace novel ways of interdisciplinary collaboration and investigation.

The Government and Pharmaceutical Innovation: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhaven N. Sampat
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Pharmaceutical Innovation ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
The Government ◽  
Looking Back

AbstractCurrent debates about the roles of the public and private sectors in pharmaceutical innovation have a long history. The extent to which, and ways in which, the public sector supports drug innovation has implications for assessments of the returns to public research funding, taxpayer rights in drugs, the argument the high prices are needed to support drug innovation, and the desirability of patenting publicly funded research.

Looking Back … And Looking Forward

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Ravenscroft
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Studies ◽  
The People ◽  
Cost Of Education ◽  
Statistical Approaches ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Looking Back

ABSTRACT In this essay I reflect on my career in academic accounting and explore what has remained the same and what has changed over that time. I examine the people who enter academic accounting, the content of graduate studies, and the contents of the American Accounting Association's premier journal, all of which have changed. I consider how our research remains constrained by boundaries and some statistical approaches that we impose on it. I briefly discuss two significant changes facing students—the major impact of technology on their lives and the rapidly increasing cost of education. I note what I believe are some unsustainable features of our profession and end with a call to revisit our purpose—individually and as a profession.

“Preamble” to a Constitution for New Confederation of European nations: text and context

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
DAVID ENGELS ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Official Position ◽  
Political Program ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
The Eu

The idea of protecting the European essence from collapse due to modern challenges (migration, terrorism, tensions between the EU and Asia, threats from the Middle East, discord in relations with Russia) is not new and has been discussed many times by many researchers. The author offers his solution for these and many other challenges. His vision of united Europe is offered in the preamble to the Constitution of a new confederation of European nations. This text is not an official position for political action or propaganda. This message is necessary to broaden the horizons for those Europeans who are accustomed to living for the sake of modern realities, without looking back at the great past of Europe. The author sees the solution to the impending challenges of our time in the history of European states, their economic and social development. The author proposes to Europe - if it wants to survive in the 21st century as a civilization, it needs to return to historical values and traditions that shaped it since the Middle Ages, and moreover, sharply reduce Brussels’ tendency towards centralism. Wherein a close partnership should be maintained between European countries in key policy areas. The proposed preamble appears to be a unifying political program that can act as gathering point for politicians and citizens with different views.

Cotton Mather Anguishes Over the Consequences of His Son's Inoculation Against Smallpox

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 756-756
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
New Method ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Inoculation Technique ◽  
Cotton Mather ◽  
The People ◽  
Small Pox ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Historical Writings ◽  
The Town

Cotton Mather (1663-1728), usually remembered for his theological and historical writings, was also much concerned with medicine. He was interested in many aspects of contemporary science and became one of the few colonial members of the Royal Society of London. In 1721, when a smallpox epidemic hit Boston, Mather urged Boston physicians, particularly Zabdiel Boylston, to employ the inoculation technique used by the Turks as a means of preventing fatal cases of the disease. In his Diary, Mather records the anguish he suffered for having taken this stand. [May] 26 [1721]. The grievous Calamity of the Small-Pox has now entered the Town. The Practice of conveying and suffering the Small-pox by Inoculation, has never been used in America, nor indeed in our Nation, But how many Lives might be saved by it, if it were practised? . . . [June] 13. What shall I do? what shall I do, with regard unto Sammy? He comes home, when the Small-pox begins to spread in the Neighbourhood; and he is lothe to return unto Cambridge. I must earnestly look up to Heaven for Direction. . . . [July] 16. At this Time, I enjoy an unspeakable Consolation. I have instructed our Physicians in the new Method used by the Africans and Asiaticks, to prevent and abate the Dangers of the Small-Pox, and infallibly to save the Lives of those that have it wisely managed upon them. The Destroyer, being enraged at the Proposal of any Thing, that may rescue the Lives of our poor People from him, has taken a strange Possession of the People on this Occasion.

Zelensky and Servant of the People

2020 ◽  
pp. 270-297
Author(s):  
Joseph Jack Place
Keyword(s):  
Ideological Position ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Eu

This work examines the ideological stances of Volodymyr Zelensky and the effectiveness of him and his party so far of breaking with the past politically in Ukraine. It assesses the ideological basis of Servant of the People and Zelensky initially, examining the different and sometimes inconsistent aspects of the party and argues there is an issue in that it appears to be a continuation of personality first politics. It then outlines issues for the new government, both domestically and internationally, and outlines the effects real and potential regarding Ukraine's relationship with the EU and Russia. It finally makes some suggestions on areas to focus on to assist in the growth and stability that Ukraine needs. The author makes the argument that the new government, while implementing some necessary reforms, due to an inexperience, broad, and unsustainable ideological position and oligarchic influence, isn't as adept at modernising as it wants to be and even runs the risk of returning Ukraine to the hands of anti-reformers with some poorly thought out policies.

Dangerous Aliens, Crisis Constellations, and Information Gaps

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-131
Author(s):  
Nick Vaughan-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Media Representations ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The People ◽  
Different Types ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Crisis Narratives ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Made In ◽  
Information Gaps

Chapter 4 shifts the analytical focus from elite claims made in the name of ‘the people’ to EU citizens’ vernacular knowledge of migration. Particular emphasis is given to the vernacular knowledge and categories used by citizens to discuss the issue of migration as it is perceived to impact and disrupt their everyday lives, the underpinning assumptions about hierarchies of race and gender used to position citizens in relation to perceptions about different ‘types’ of people on the move, and citizens’ awareness of/support for dominant governmental and media representations of the issue of migration in Europe. As well as offering a map of these contours, the discussion identifies three overriding themes. First, vernacular conversations problematize the notion of a linear transmission between elite crisis narratives and their reception among diverse publics. Second, the claim that elite narratives merely ventriloquize what ‘the people’ think about and want in regard to about migration is challenged by the complexity and nuance of vernacular narratives. Third, EU citizens repeatedly spoke of what they perceived to be a series of ‘information gaps’, which led to a widespread distrust of mainstream politicians and media sources, anxieties about their individual and collective futures, and demands for more detailed, higher quality, and accessible knowledge about migration from the EU, national governments, media sources, and academics. By taking vernacular views and experiences of migration seriously we can better understand how the propagation of misinformation, confusion, and uncertainty among EU citizens set the scene for populist notions of ‘taking back control’ to thrive.

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