Problems of science faculties

Gender in Science and Engineering Faculties: Demographic Inertia Revisited

The under-representation of women on faculties of science and engineering is ascribed in part to demographic inertia, which is the lag between retirement of current faculty and future hires. The assumption of demographic inertia implies that, given enough time, gender parity will be achieved. We examine that assumption via a semi-Markov model to predict the future faculty, with simulations that...

THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Faculties of Arts , Economics , Education , Engineering and Science MATH 3917 Hamiltonian

On the Natural Faculties

BOOK ONE 1. Since feeling and voluntary motion are peculiar to animals, whilst growth and nutrition are common to plants as well, we may look on the former as effects of the soul and the latter as effects of the nature. And if there be anyone who allows a share in soul to plants as well, and separates the two kinds of soul, naming the kind in question vegetative, and the other sensory, this per...

Developing your faculties.

I cannot remember when I first came across the phrase ‘faculty development’ to describe training doctors how to teach, but I remember I found it puzzling. I had been involved in training general practitioners (GPs) for many years, but we simply talked about ‘training the trainers’ and that seemed a good enough description. I was not sure why doctors who taught medical students or trainees neede...

An integrated undergraduate pain curriculum, based on IASP curricula, for six health science faculties.

Pain education, especially for undergraduates, has been identified as important to changing problematic pain practices, yet, no published data were found describing an integrated, interprofessional pain curriculum for undergraduate students. Therefore, this project aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate an integrated pain curriculum, based on the International Association for the Study of Pa...