Bridging the gap between research and practice: a continuing challenge

Istre continuing challenge Bridging the gap between research and practice

Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice.

Health secretary Alan Johnson announced in March the identities of the first five academic health science centres in the UK, one of which is the result of a collaboration between Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. These centres are partnerships between world-class universities and leading NHS organisations, and this article examines the implications of their esta...

Bridging the Gap Bridging the Educational Research-Teaching Practice Gap

The first paper [1] in this two-part miniseries on conceptual understanding discussed expert and novice conceptual knowledge, the multifaceted nature of conceptual understanding, and the cognitive skills essential for constructing it. This second article presents examples of instruments for the assessment and development of five facets of conceptual understanding that require competence in the ...

Convergence! Collision! Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice

University Timetabling: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice

As an academic in the School of Computer Science at Queen’s University, a visiting researcher to the Automated Scheduling, Opimisation and Planning (ASAP) group within the School of Computer Science and IT at the University of Nottingham and Managing Director of eventMAP Limited, a university technological spin out company, the author is in a unique position to provide comments on both the prac...