Building Bridges between Gerontology and Elder Law

Gerontology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-102
Author(s):  
Nina Kohn ◽  
Maria Brown ◽  
Israel Doron
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
The Other ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Scientific Dialogue ◽  
Elder Law ◽  
Learning And Collaboration

Background: Academics have long called for greater interaction between gerontologists and legal scholars. However, prior studies have suggested that disciplinary borders remain a barrier to such interaction, hampering gerontology’s ability to function as a truly multi- or interdisciplinary field. Objective: This study was designed to understand the nature of current interactions between legal scholars and gerontologists, and to identify opportunities to advance scientific dialogue and cooperation between the two. Methods: Semi-structured, open-ended interviews with 27 participants (12 elder law scholars, 15 gerontologists) were conducted by phone, recorded, and analyzed by an interdisciplinary team. Results: Both elder law scholars and gerontologists indicate that their field would benefit from research collaboration and cross-disciplinary teaching with the other field, but the fields remain distinct with little cross-disciplinary learning. Participants identified a series of opportunities, however, for increasing such learning and collaboration. Conclusions: The authors identify ways gerontologists can be encouraged to integrate elder law into their teaching and research, and suggest how this integration could enhance understanding of the aging experience.

Folding and Fracturing of Rocks: the birth of modern structural geology

2018 ◽  
Vol 487 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan H. Treagus ◽  
Peter J. Hudleston
Keyword(s):  
Structural Geology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
The Other ◽  
Postgraduate Student ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Second Year

AbstractIn 1967, the publication of John Ramsay's book, Folding and Fracturing of Rocks, was a landmark event that affected both of us, inspiring us into careers in structural geology. At that time, one of us was a postgraduate student at Imperial College, London, the other a second-year undergraduate at Manchester University. It is hard to convey, 50 years on, how precious this book was then. The true and lasting value is how this book has changed individuals, and influenced the teaching and research in structural geology, in Britain and around the world. In our view, Folding and Fracturing of Rocks marks the birth of modern structural geology.

Cross-CTSA Evaluation of KL2 Scholars' Scholarly Productivity Using Bibliometrics and Federal Follow-on Funding (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelli Qua ◽  
Fei Yu ◽  
Tanha Patel ◽  
Gaurav Dave ◽  
Katherine Cornelius ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Citation Rate ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scholarly Productivity ◽  
Training Success ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Time Point

BACKGROUND Evaluating outcomes of a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) hub’s clinical and translational research (CTR) training (e.g., KL2 program) requires selecting reliable, accessible, and standardized measures. Since measures of scholarly success usually focus on publication output and extramural funding, CTSA hubs have started to use bibliometrics to evaluate the impact of their supported scholarly activities. However, the evaluation of KL2 programs across CTSAs is limited, and the use of bibliometrics and follow-on funding is minimal. OBJECTIVE This study sought to evaluate scholarly productivity, impact, and collaboration using bibliometrics and federal follow-on funding of KL2 scholars from three CTSA hubs and define and assess CTR training success indicators. METHODS The sample included KL2 scholars from three CTSA institutions (A-C). Bibliometric data for each scholar in the sample were collected from both SciVal and iCite, including scholarly productivity, citation impact, and research collaboration. Three federal follow-on funding measures (at the five-year, eight-year, and overall time point) were collected internally and confirmed by examining NIH RePORTER. Both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis were computed using SPSS to assess bibliometrics results and federal follow-on funding of KL2 scholars. RESULTS A total of 143 KL2 scholars were included in the sample with relatively equal groups across three CTSA institutions (A-C). The included KL2 scholars produced more publications and citation counts at the eight-year than the five-year time point (3.4 vs. 3.75 publications per year on average; 26.16 and 26.44 citations per year respectively). Overall, the KL2 publications from all three institutions were cited twice as much as others in their fields based on NIH Relative Citation Ratio. KL2 scholars published work with researchers from other US institutions over two times (five-year point) or three and a half times (eight-year point) more than others in their research fields. Within five-year and eight-year post-matriculation, 44% (n = 63) and 52% (n = 74) of KL2 scholars achieved federal funding respectively. Institution C's KL2-scholars had a significantly higher citation rate per publication than the other institutions (p < .001). Institution A had a significantly lower rate of nationally field-weighted collaboration compared to the other institutions (p < .001). Institution B Scholars were more likely to have received federal funding than scholars at Institution A or C (p < .001). CONCLUSIONS Multi-institutional data showed a high level of scholarly productivity, impact, collaboration, and federal follow-on funding achieved by KL2 scholars. This study provided insights on using bibliometric and federal follow-on funding data to evaluate CTR training success across institutions. CTSA KL2 programs and other CTR career training programs can benefit from these findings in terms of understanding metrics of career success and using that knowledge to develop highly targeted strategies to support early-stage CTR investigators' career development.

Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languages: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Place Names 2019

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Symposium ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
The Other ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Place Naming ◽  
Selection Of

Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languages is a selection of double-blind peer-reviewed papers from the 5th International Symposium on Place Names that took place 18-20 September 2020 in Clarens, South Africa. The symposium celebrated 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages as declared by the United Nations. Some of the studies in this publication excavate lost or disappearing indigenous toponyms. Those researchers contribute in a very concrete way to the preservation of indigenous toponyms, and thereby also the associated cultural heritage. The other papers explore how place naming functions as a mechanism with which to create mental maps and exert socio-political power. These proceedings are the outcome of international collaboration between Southern African and international scholars. As such, it is a valuable resource to local as well as international scholars who are interested in the interdisciplinary field of toponomy.

Games and Exercises for Teaching and Research: Exploring How Learning Varies Based on Fidelity and Participant Experience

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Gralla ◽  
Zoe Szajnfarber
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Real World ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Experience Level ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Participant Experience

It has long been recognized that games are useful in engineering education, and more recently they have also become a common setting for empirical research. Games are useful for both teaching and research because they mimic aspects of reality and require participants to reason within that realistic context, and they allow researchers to study phenomena empirically that are hard to observe in reality. This paper explores what can be learned by students and by researchers, based on the authors’ experience with two sets of games. These games vary in both the experience level of the participants and the “fidelity” or realism of the game itself. Our experience suggests that what can be learned by participants and by researchers depends on both these dimensions. For teaching purposes, inexperienced participants may struggle to connect lessons from medium-fidelity games to the real world. On the other hand, experienced participants may learn more from medium-fidelity games that provide the time and support to practice and reflect on new skills. For research purposes, high-fidelity games are best due to their higher ecological validity, even with inexperienced participants, although experienced participants may enable strong validity in medium-fidelity settings. These findings are based on experience with two games, but provide promising directions for future research.

scholarly journals Retraction: The “Other Face” of Research Collaboration?

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 1681-1708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Tang ◽  
Guangyuan Hu ◽  
Yang Sui ◽  
Yuhan Yang ◽  
Cong Cao
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
The Other

What is Theology of Education?

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Hull
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Other Hand

An understanding of the nature of theology of education, as of any other field of applied or practical theology, will spring from some previous understanding of the nature and functions of theology itself. But here the theorist in the interdisciplinary field is in something of a dilemma. If he fails to make it clear that theology of education rests upon an interpretation of the nature of theology, his treatment will tend to be superficial. He will be exploring the theological implications of education, but he will not have shown himself aware of the implications for theology of the methods he uses in his exploration. Since his aim is to elucidate implications for theology, he must turn his scrutiny inwards towards himself as theologian, as well as outwards towards education. On the other hand, in setting forth the understanding of theology which informs his work in applied theology, he makes his work more controversial, since there will be other understandings of theology, and other understandings of applied theology will flow from these to relativise his own methodology. Or it may be thought that the interdisciplinary field necessarily rests upon this and only this understanding of theology, and then those whose understanding of theology differs will conclude that the whole interdisciplinary enterprise is misconceived. A relatively under-developed interdisciplinary field such as theology of education is particularly susceptible to this misunderstanding.

Experts vs. Novices

Babel ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Künzli
Keyword(s):  
Potential Benefit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Systematic Variation ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Thinking Aloud ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The One ◽  
Professional Translator ◽  
The Way

Résumé Ce travail a pour objectif d’tudier le développement de deux éléments de la compétence traductionnelle, à savoir les compétences discursive et pragmatique, grâce à l’tude de la façon dont est traduit le dialogue fictif entre émetteur et receveur dans des textes publicitaires. Trois étudiants en traduction (en première, troisième et quatrième années de leur formation) et un traducteur professionnel avaient pour tâche de traduire une publicité en pensant à haute voix. Les résultats révèlent une interdépendance entre l’importance accordée au dialogue fictif, les compétences discursive et pragmatique et léxpérience de la traduction. Notre étude présente un intérêt pour la pédagogie et la recherche. Elle met ainsi en évidence le bénéfice que l’enseignement pourrait retirer de la combinaison d’exercices de traduction et dánalyses de corpus. Elle fait également apparaître l’intérêt que la recherche aurait à manipuler les variables de façon plus systématique. Abstract This study investigates the development of two components of translational competence, i.e., discursive and pragmatic competence, by analyzing the way the fictitious dialogue between sender and receiver in advertising texts is translated. Three translation students (1 st , 3 rd and 4 th year of study) and one professional translator were asked to translate an advertisement while thinking aloud. The results show a correlation between the degree of awareness of the role played by the fictitious dialogue, discursive and pragmatic competence, and experience of translation. The study has implications for teaching and research: It reveals the potential benefit of combining translation exercises and analyses of corpora in teaching on the one hand, and of a systematic variation of variables in research on the other.

scholarly journals LITERATURA E CIDADE: campo interdisciplinar e vazios investigativos

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clovis Ultramari ◽  
Manoela Massuchetto Jazar
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Research Field ◽  
The Other ◽  
Machado De Assis ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Selection Of

O artigo objetiva trazer ao debate a relação literatura e cidade como campo interdisciplinar de pesquisa. Serve-se de revisão bibliográfica sobre essa relação e, a partir da seleção de dois autores - Machado de Assis e Graciliano Ramos, analisa como a produção cientifica nacional em teses e dissertações defendidas entre 2000 e 2015 se apropria desse potencial investigativo. Adicionalmente, toma o caso de Graciliano Ramos para a identificação de possíveis caminhos metodológicos neste campo interdisciplinar. O debate sobre trabalhos que integrem ou possam integrar literatura e cidade indica que, se, por um lado, há uma recorrência de concordâncias sobre a riqueza dessa interdisciplinaridade; por outro, é reduzido o número de pesquisas com essa perspectiva específica. Mais que isso, é possível observar que áreas tradicionalmente afeitas ao urbanismo gestão urbana, design, arquitetura e planejamento não estão presentes no restrito número de pesquisas que foi possível selecionar, havendo uma concentração exclusiva na área da própria literatura.Palavras-chave: Cidade e literatura. Metodologia. Interdisciplinaridade.LITERATURE AND CITY: interdisciplinary field and investigative emptinessAbstract: This article aims to start a debate on the relation between literature and cities as an interdisciplinary research field. It is developed based a bibliographic review on such relation and, guided by a selection of two Brazilian authors, Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos, analyses how the national academic production in dissertations and thesis - defended thought 2000 to 2015 - refers and takes advantage from this rich interdisciplinary. Additionally, we take the work and public life of Graciliano Ramos to identify possible methodological paths in such interdisciplinary field. In the search of researches that combine interests in literature and cities, we could observe that, on one side, there is a consensus on the importance of different multi scientific approaches; on the other it is reduced the number of researches adopting this procedure. More than that, it is possible to conclude that areas closely connected to urbanism, like urban management, design, architecture and planning are absent in the restrict number of researches considered appropriated for this discussion.Keywords:  City and Literature. Methodology. Interdisciplinarity. LITERATURA Y CIUDAD: campo interdisciplinario y vacío investigativoResumen: El artículo tiene como objetivo argumentar sobre la relación entre literatura y ciudad como campo interdisciplinario de investigación. Hace uso de la revisión teórica acerca de esta relación y, a partir de la selección de dos autores - Machado de Assis y Graciliano Ramos - analiza cómo la producción científica nacional en tesis y disertaciones defendidas entre 2000 y 2015 se apropian de este potencial de investigación. Además, toma el caso del escritor Graciliano Ramos para la identificación de posibles enfoques metodológicos en este campo interdisciplinario. El debate sobre trabajos académicos que integran o que desean integrar literatura con ciudad indica que, por un lado, hay una grande concordancia de la riqueza de este enfoque interdisciplinario; en el otro, que hay todavía un muy bajo número de resultados con esta perspectiva específica. Más que eso, se puede ver qué áreas de estudio tradicionalmente relacionadas con el urbanismo,la gestión urbana, el diseño y la planificación no están presentes en el limitado número de resultados encontrados.Palabras clave: Ciudad y literatura. Metodología. Interdisciplinaridad.  

On the Move

In the Field ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
George Gmelch ◽  
Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Team Research

In a five-year interdisciplinary team research project on the migration and mobility patterns of rural Newfoundlanders, the author learns the strengths and drawbacks of collaborative research. In this case, the other researchers are sociologists and geographers whose jargon and ways of doing research the anthropologist must learn in order to collaborate successfully.

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