‘Getting Going’ – Research by Design

Career Progression: Getting-On, Getting-By and Going Nowhere

This research examines factors that help or hinder the ‘career progress’ of individuals in NCDS through the labour market. We employ different measures of an individual’s status based on earnings. To a large extent this paper is an empirical implementation of the Sicherman and Galor model of Career Mobility (Journal of Political Economy 1990) in that this paper attempts to chart exactly how peo...

Getting the audience ’ s attention by going viral

Qualitative research: getting started.

As scientifically trained clinicians, pharmacists may be more familiar and comfortable with the concept of quantitative rather than qualitative research. Quantitative research can be defined as “the means for testing objective theories by examining the relationship among variables which in turn can be measured so that numbered data can be analyzed using statistical procedures”.1 Pharmacists may...

Unraveling abiotic stress tolerance mechanisms--getting genomics going.

Homeostasis, a set-value for metabolism under optimal conditions, is rarely achieved by plants because of the cost exerted by external stress factors: climatic, biotic, and nutrient imbalances. Among these, stresses caused by abiotic conditions, such as temperature extremes (freezing, cold and heat), water availability (drought and ion excess) and ion toxicity (salinity and heavy metals), have ...

Getting started in clinical research.

Interestingly, when asked about careers in research, some hygienists associate these opportunities with “lab jobs” or “desk jobs,” leaving patient contact and clinical experiences behind. Basic science is a very necessary component of clinical research, but for those wanting to utilize their basic science training combined with clinical skills gained during practice, a career in clinical resear...