Faculty identity through spheres of teaching and research activity and associated genres

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 962-974
Author(s):  
Liliana Gallego ◽  
Montserrat Castelló ◽  
Antoni Badia
Keyword(s):  
Research Activity ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Faculty Identity

The Use of Computers to Reduce Animal Experimentation in Pharmacology

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-276
Author(s):  
Ian E. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Drug Design ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Molecular Modelling ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Animal Experimentation ◽  
Literature Searching ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Teaching And Research

Computers are now used routinely as tools in pharmacology, particularly in the areas of teaching, data processing and collection, information retrieval and literature searching, and in molecular modelling and drug design. Their use in these areas has enhanced research activity and has extended and increased the availability of new teaching methods. Here, their impact on the use of animals in both teaching and research is discussed. It is concluded that computers may have some potential to reduce animal experimentation in the medium to long term, but their current use as alternatives to animals has made only a marginal impact on the total number of animals utilised for experimental purposes.

Mapping teaching and research activity in general practice

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selena Gray ◽  
BEN TOTH ◽  
HELEN JOHNSON ◽  
DAVID PERCY ◽  
DAVID MANT
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Teaching And Research

scholarly journals Results from a Spanish national survey on the application of ultrasound in pulmonology services

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Ramos-Hernández ◽  
Maribel Botana-Rial ◽  
Rosa Cordovilla-Pérez ◽  
Manuel Núñez-Delgado ◽  
Alberto Fernández-Villar
Keyword(s):  
Low Complexity ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Intermediate Complexity ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Rule Out

Abstract Background This was an observational, cross-sectional, and multicentre study carried out from October to December 2020, through a survey sent to Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery members in public hospitals with different levels of complexity. Our objective was to complete a national analysis of clinical practice, organisation, infrastructure, the services portfolio, teaching, and research activity related to ultrasound. Results Data from 104 hospitals were analysed. Ultrasound was used in 56.7% of cases, both in the area of bronchopleural techniques and on conventional wards, with no differences between centres. Lung ultrasound (LUS) was performed more often in the procedures area in intermediate-complexity centres compared to high- and low-complexity centres (36% vs. 31% and 6.25%, respectively). More high-complexity centres had three or more ultrasound scanners than intermediate-complexity centres (38% vs. 16%); 43% of low-complexity centres shared their ultrasound equipment with other specialties. Fewer than 6% of centres did not have an ultrasound machine. LUS was most often used during the treatment of pleural effusion (91.3%), in the differential diagnosis of dyspnoea (51.9%), and to rule out iatrogenic pneumothorax (50.9%). Only 5.7% of the centres had a pulmonologist specialised in LUS. Finally, fewer than 35% of the hospitals were teaching centres and fewer than 18% participated in research projects. Conclusions The use and availability of LUS has grown in pulmonology services, however, still relatively few pulmonologists are specialised in its use. Moreover, teaching and research activity in this field is scarce. Strategies are necessary to improve physicians’ skill at using LUS and to promote its use, with the ultimate goal of improving healthcare activity.

Origins and transformations: histories of communication study

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 727-737
Author(s):  
John Corner
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Communication Study ◽  
History Of Study

This is a brief, interconnected review of some of the extensive work published in the last few years on the history of study into communication. It highlights in particular the expansion of this work to include international contexts and the examination of how teaching programmes as well as research activity have helped to institutionalize the area as one with a discrete, if much-debated, academic identity. Different originating contexts, historical links with professional practice and the impact of new media on the recent history both of teaching and research are among the themes addressed.

scholarly journals Teaching and research in astronomy using small aperture optical telescopes

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (SPS5) ◽  
pp. 245-252
Author(s):  
Shiva Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Large Fraction ◽  
Ccd Camera ◽  
Variable Stars ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Small Aperture ◽  
Optical Telescope ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Active Stars ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
Optical Telescopes

AbstractSmall aperture (<1m, typically 20–50 cm) optical telescopes with adequate back-end instrumentation (e.g. photometer, CCD camera and CCD spectrograph) can be used for spreading the joy and excitement of observational astronomy among postgraduate and research students in colleges and universities. On the basis of our experience over a decade of observing with small optical telescopes it has been amply demonstrated that such a facility, which any university can hope to procure and maintain, can be effectively used for teaching and research. The Physics Department of Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University at Raipur, India offers Astronomy & Astrophysics as one of the specializations of its MSc program in Physics. A set of observational exercises has been incorporated with a view to provide training in observations, analysis and interpretation of astronomical data. Observing facilities available in the department include 8”–14” aperture telescopes equipped with a photometer, CCD camera and a CCD spectrograph. A facility of this kind is ideally suited for continuous monitoring of a variety of variable stars, and thus can provide valuable data for understanding the physics of stellar variability. This is especially true for a class of variable stars known as chromospherically active stars. The stars belonging to this class have variable light curves that change from year to year in a rather strange way. A large fraction of these active stars are bright; hence the importance of small aperture telescopes for collecting much-needed photometric data. For over a decade the research activity using the 14” optical telescope has focused on photometric monitoring of well known and suspected active stars. These data, together with X-ray and radio data from archives as well as spectroscopic data obtained at Indian observatories, has led to the identification of new chromosperically active stars. This paper is aimed at sharing our experiences with the colleagues from the developing world on the usage of small optical telescopes for teaching and research with the objective of spreading the joy of astronomy among young students.

TRAINING ENGINEERING MSC STUDENTS FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
PETR F. KUBRUSHKO ◽  
◽  
ALEKSEI S. SIMAN ◽  
MARINA V. SHINGAREVA
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Power Engineering ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Content Structure ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
The University

The paper discusses the organization features of training engineering MSc students for teaching and research activity. The authors have analyzed the historical and pedagogical aspects of the origin and development of master’s degree programs in Russia as one of the most important resources for providing the higher education system with teaching staff . The modern requirements of society for training university teaching staff in changing conditions and increasing their professional mobility are revealed. Training nonpedagogical MSc students for teaching and research activity at a university involves a pedagogical component in the teaching content structure, as exemplifi ed by “Fundamentals of Pedagogical Activity” or “Methods of Vocational Training” courses and teaching practice programs. Research conducted by the authors at the the Goryachkin Institute of Mechanical and Power Engineering at Russian Timiryazev State Agrarian University for three years, showed a high demand for lecturers with a master’s degree in modern technical universities, as well as high motivation of Msc students for teaching and research activity. The study involved 109 MSc students in the areas of training “Agroengineering”, “Heat Power Engineering and Heat Engineering”, “Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering”. All the participants were taking a course of “Fundamentals of Pedagogical Activity” and having teaching practice at the university. As a result of the research, the authors have off ered some ways to solve the problem of training teaching staff with a master’s degree for technical universities. They include conducting fundamental research on the methodological issues of master’s degree training, considering past experience and modern trends; developing theoretical and applied issues of the master’s degree training content structure in order to increase the eff ectiveness of training programs, including the pedagogical component; identifying and implementing eff ective forms, models, and adaptive programs in the university study process to train MSc students for teaching and research activities and ensure their further professional development.

Public Stakes, Public Stories: Service Learning in Literary Studies

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 987-993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcy Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Faculty Identity ◽  
Hispanic Populations

Discussions about academic work often tangle with the seemingly bifurcating demands of teaching and research. occasionally, they celebrate how the two endeavors nurture each other. These professional divisions, which George Levine a decade ago called a “combat” scenario between “two nations” (9), have not been reconciled since then. Despite that persistent tension, when I shifted my professional energies to the academy after several years of community-based social work with not-for-profit organizations serving Hispanic populations, the challenges of balancing teaching and research were not my only concerns. I also wondered how I could incorporate community service into the multiple demands of academic life. Would there be time to devote to the community? Would I find academic work in an area where I might have something to contribute beyond the campus? Aside from location and time constraints, would I find a way to integrate into my faculty identity an engagement with the wider society, or would those endeavors be relegated to a separate self, dissociated from my academic world? I anticipated that extensions of my teaching and scholarship might connect with realms outside the academy. Accepting the challenge, I patiently observed my campus and surrounding community, searching for opportunities for interaction.

scholarly journals La mercantilización de la Educación Superior a través del modelo universitario inglés: elementos clave, críticas y posibilidades

2020 ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
David Menéndez Álvarez-Hevia ◽  
Reyes Hernández-Castilla
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
University Experience ◽  
European University ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

This article provides a theoretical reflection on the challenges associated to the practices of marketisation and the economising trend of higher education. We refer to the English university experience to illustrate how the tendency to marketisation transforms relationships between agents, functions, organisation and the form it is understood higher education. The article focuses on three fundamental elements fundamental elements that explain the marketisation of the English higher education. Firstly, we discuss the transformation of the student into consumer and the higher education into a commodity. Secondly, we explore the concept of employability, focusing on pedagogical implications and showing how it promotes instrumentalised conceptualisations of university education. Thirdly, we discuss practices associated with evaluation and enhancement of competition by taking as a reference the systems used to assess teaching and research activity. We provide a critical analysis of these three elements and discuss ideas to reconfigure the transformation caused by the process of marketisation. Besides critical arguments, this article also provides forms to reconfigure practices associated to marketisation. Rather than rejecting marketisation, we suggest a reorientation that eases the most pernicious effects of this trend that is already present in the European university models.  

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