Teaching philosophies revalued: beyond personal development to academic and institutional capacity building

Building institutional capacity for diversity and inclusion in academic medicine.

Today, most agree that the health care system in the United States is in need of reform and that existing health disparities have huge implications for both that system and society as a whole. As a result, academic medicine has come to play a central role in addressing health disparities in a pluralistic society. Today, diversity is no longer a projection; it is a reality. Yet, most diversity e...

Academic and institutional capacity: a global issue.

Capacity building in obstetrics and gynaecology through academic partnerships to improve global women's health beyond 2015.

Significant progress has been made since Allen Rosenfield termed maternal mortality a neglected tragedy and asked ‘where is the M in MCH?’ Recent data from the World Health Organization demonstrates significant declines in maternal mortality ratios, with a 49% reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), from 990 in 1990 to 510 per 100 000 live births in 2013. Still, Millennium Development Goal (MDG)...

Building Institutional Capacity in Digital Preservation

The Chronicles in Preservation project, being led by the Educopia Institute, is undertaking research to evaluate the degree to which several of the current digital preservation standards in use today (e.g., OAIS, TRAC, PREMIS, METS, etc.) can be applied to the diverse and at-risk content genre of digital newspapers. Institutions need guidance on incremental, skilled approaches and lightweight t...

Building capacity for teaching and learning research

Building research-capacity is an important element in the contemporary political economy of social science research. For example, the principal funding body, the ESRC, continues to invest substantially in the development of researchcapacity through, for example, its Research Methods Programme and its recently announced National Centre for Research Methods, to be located at Southampton Universit...