Collaborating across the researcher-practitioner divide

Collaborating Across the Miles

In today's scientific environment scientists can no longer work in isolated laboratories. The problems being studied require experts from several fields to combine their talents. The instruments used to gather scientific data are expensive and difficult to build so there are only a few in the world. The Internet connectivity and the powerful desktop workstations available today provide the pote...

Unlocking knowledge: Florida's researcher practitioner partnerships work

In an effort to increase the use of research in criminal justice and correctional practices, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) supports research to study and develop the best strategies to achieve this goal. Translational criminology studies, such as those by Laub1 and Innes and Everett,2 often found that researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) serve as an effective strategy to increa...

Matching Software Practitioner Needs to Researcher Activities

We present an approach to matching software practitioners ’ needs to software researchers activities. It uses an accepted taxonomical software classiJication scheme as intermediary. in terms of which practitioners express needs, and researchers express activities. A decision support tool is used to combine these expressions of needdactivities, and to assist in studying the implications of that ...

Across The Great Divide

Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is licensed to allow users the freedom to copy, reuse, study and develop the software. As a term which efficiently encompasses both ‘free software’ and ‘open-source’ models, FLOSS may offer music practitioners and researchers the opportunity to develop and use such software without becoming mired in a particular stance. In this article, parallels between ...

The Great Academic-Practitioner Divide: A Tale of Two Paradigms