Translational Social Science and Humanities Research in Malaysia

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

Digging into Metadata : Enhancing Social Science and Humanities Research 1

Metadata ‘data about data’ is a crucial component of information infrastructures that supports the finding, retrieving and sharing of resources; metadata in the social sciences and humanities helps researchers, educators, students and others to share data and information, and to collaborate in research, education and learning. Metadata work is highly resource intensive, and there can be signifi...

Problematizing Digital Research Evaluation using DOIs in Practice-Based Arts, Humanities and Social Science Research

This paper explores emerging practices in research data management in the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS). It will do so vis-à-vis current citation conventions and impact measurement for research in AHSS. Case study findings on research data inventoried at Goldsmiths', University of London will be presented. Goldsmiths is a UK research-intensive higher education institution which sp...

Translational research and nursing science.

B asic research seeks to increase or advance knowledge through systematic investigation of a subject or phenomenon. In the healthcare sciences, basic research typically involves an exploration into physiologic processes at the level of the molecule, cell, tissue, or organism, and pathophysiologic mechanisms of injury or illness. Still, science does not thrive in a vacuum. As Louis Pasteur noted...

Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare

Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory animals (the '3Rs'), work in the humanities and social sciences can help understand the social, economic and cultural processes that enhan...