Transferring research to policy and practice: quo vadis?

Transferring research to policy and practice: quo vadis?

Introduction: Research findings are of little use if they are not used to help inform the development of policy and practice. A number of studies during the last decade have indicated the continued need to move more towards evidence-informed policy and practice, yet today there remains too little use of a common language or approach between the research and policy communities. Moreover, researc...

General systems research: quo vadis?

This yearbook in its new format is an extensional definition of progress in general systems research. The papers represent a selection of the key material published in 1978-1979 over a wide range of systems topics. This paper complements them as a collective introduction to the topics rather than a set of individual introductions to the papers. It certainly does not encompass them, for it would...

Cancer research: quo vadis—to war?

The notion that we should wage all-out war on cancer to break the back of the problem is considered fundamentally untenable because of the inherent nature of the disorder. An alternative is argued on the basis that we can only achieve a greater degree of control through attrition, since only a minority of tumour types might truly be curable in many cases.

Research competency and specialist registration: Quo vadis ?

The requirement of 'research completion' as necessary for specialist registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has recently been subject to legal action, with a court order potentially shifting requirements beyond those envisaged by the HPCSA. The research requirement is congruent with National Department of Health strategy in this regard, i.e. the strengthening o...

Quo vadis: Scandinavian Information Systems Development Research?