Cancer research: French change

French research split

Life scientists are rapidly waking up to the threat to their future in the face of France's announcement of a break-up of the CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France's major research organisation — amid a raft of other concerns. The winter of 2003–04 was one of discontent for French scientists, who demonstrated in masses against government policies that they felt were forcin...

French public research--saved?

French Cancer Centers

A system for monitoring French scientific research

The introduction of France’s Constitutional Bylaw on Budget Acts (LOLF) in 2006 and its concept of performance-based management implies a profound reengineering of the relationship between the central government and the autonomous agencies in charge of implementing policy. In this paper, we examine the case of French scientific research policy, which is carried out via a network of 160 universi...

Change process research.

Research on change processes is needed to help explain how psychotherapy produces change. To explain processes of change it will be important to measure three types of outcomes—immediate, intermediate, and final—and three levels of process—speech act, episode, and relationship. Emphasis will need to be placed on specifying different types of in-session change episodes and the intermediate outco...