Transformative service research: research that matters

Transdisciplinary Research, Transformative Learning, and Transformative Science

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An Extended Conceptual Framework for Transformative Service Research

Meta-research: Why research on research matters

Meta-research is the study of research itself: its methods, reporting, reproducibility, evaluation, and incentives. Given that science is the key driver of human progress, improving the efficiency of scientific investigation and yielding more credible and more useful research results can translate to major benefits. The research enterprise grows very fast. Both new opportunities for knowledge a...

History matters...through partnerships that advance research, education, and public service

In the summer of 2015, as part of a seminar made possible through a grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), a dozen primary and secondary teachers from across the United States gathered at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda, Maryland. Joining them and offering a presentation about the sign...

Doing IT Research that Matters to Practice: Perspectives on Propositions

The ICIS 2009 Call for Papers states that “[o]ur discipline faces an unprecedented challenge as we struggle for relevancy in the face of changing demographics and world events. More to the point, much of our research is being questioned in terms of impact, both real and potential”. Such an assessment, if true, suggests a dangerous situation for the IS field, and significant challenges for its f...