Resisting Best-Practice in Australian Practice-Based Jazz Doctorates

Methodological Innovation in Practice-Based Design Doctorates

This article presents a selective review of recent design PhDs that identify and analyse the methodological innovation that is occurring in the field, in order to inform future provision of research training. Six recently completed design PhDs are used to highlight possible philosophical and practical models that can be adopted by future PhD students in design. Four characteristics were found i...

96 Practice - based Doctorates and Questions of Academic

Best Practice

A process improvement program starts with the recognition of the organization’s needs and business goals, usually based on the main drivers and stimuli identified. From an analysis of the organizations needs and existing stimuli for improvement, the objectives of process improvement are identified and described. The final stage of the preliminary definition of the goals for the improvement prog...

Best Practice/Next Practice: Mental Health

So, are you wondering what I need? Are you wondering what I would do about all of this if I had the power? First of all, it would help if you would start with one simple, clear commandment to yourself: Never forget that I am watching. Never forget that every single thing you do matters immensely to me (even when I work like crazy to make you think that it does not). And I will remember. You may...

Bringing evidence-based best practices into practice.

The Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) defines the term as " the judicious application of scientific knowledge by clinicians in tandem with patient preferences and values … an ongoing process of integrating evidence with the clinician's training and expertise for the care of patients and patient populations. " But, according to a 2003 study of 89 health plans sponsored by the C...