The divide between research and teaching in higher education is often presented as a tension—academics are expected to publish, yet also to provide high-quality teaching. This artificial separation ...

Last week, more than 100 university presidents/vice chancellors from the Asia-Pacific region attended the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) President's meeting, chaired by Prof.

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is often made between basic and applied research. Basic research, as this distinction goes, is ivory-tower research, with no ...

There’s an old saying: When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Sometimes referred to as “the law of the instrument,” that hammer-and-nail idea is a common pitfall in ...

Social purpose organizations need better ways to determine the quality of the evidence they use for making decisions. They need the strongest possible evidence they can find to plan effective action, ...

Laurenz Langer receives funding from from the UK government's Department for International Development for a programme supporting capacity to use research evidence in southern Africa. Ruth Stewart ...

Across the 20 places surveyed, there is relatively high trust in the military and scientists to do what is right for the public; trust tends to be lower in the national government, news media and ...