It is becoming increasingly difficult for Nigerian universities to go it alone in terms of serving as a citadel of learning, coping with the huge wage bill and competing with their peers in other parts of the world, due to competitive, economic and other pressures. As a consequence, Nigerian universities are left with no option than to carry their industrial partners along in terms of research ...

Objectives: This commentary seeks to highlight the benefits of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and promote its use in the violence field. Community perspectives remain underrepresented in the CBPR literature despite the emphasis on equitable partnerships and shared ownership in the research process. Method: Informal interviews were conducted with 10 community partners to understan...

International Food Policy Research Institute discussion papers contain preliminary materials and research results and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that most discussion papers will eventually be published in some other form, and their content may be revised. ABSTRACT Public-private partnerships offer potentially ...

Nursing schools state that faculty shortages caused by low faculty salaries are a primary reason for nursing shortages. In a Shenandoah University graduate survey, many nurses wanted to teach but could not leave their higher-paying clinical jobs. Shenandoah University’s Graduate Program in Winchester, VA received funding from the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority to use rural comm...

May 15, 2010 – Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is delighted to announce the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service (CCHERS) in Boston, MA, USA as the recipient of the 9th Annual CCPH Award. The award, presented during the closing session of CCPH's 11 th conference in Portland, Oregon, USA, recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher educa...

D uring graduation season, it is not uncommon for senior scientists to dispense wisdom from stages, lecterns, bus stops or bar stools. Nearly 50 years ago, in a memorable line from the 1967 movie, The Graduate, a single word of career advice is bestowed upon the film’s protagonist: plastics. For the biomedical graduate in 2015, another “p” word might be more appropriate: partnerships. Partnersh...

BACKGROUND This article reports on the experiences of teachers as coresearchers in a long-term partnership with university researchers, who participated in an asset-based intervention project known as Supportive Teachers, Assets and Resilience (STAR). In an attempt to inform participatory research methodology, the study investigated how coresearchers (teachers) experienced power relations. We u...

This research addresses the interrelations existing between trajectories of intimate partnerships and attitudes toward sexuality, sexual desire, and sexual satisfaction. It is based on a dataset of 600 adults aged 25-46 living in Geneva (Switzerland) and uses innovative multivariate techniques for clustering life trajectories. The results emphasize the diversity of men's and women's trajectorie...

Prompted in part by constrained national budgets, European governments are increasingly partnering with the private sector to underwrite the costs of constructing and operating public hospitals and other health care facilities and delivering services. Through such public-private partnerships, governments hope to avoid up-front capital expenditure and to harness private-sector efficiencies, whil...

Pursuing and achieving service innovation is of outmost importance for firms operating in technologyand knowledge-intensive sectors. The lack of market consolidation combined with the environment uncertainty – due to both market volatility and technology unpredictability require the formation of partnerships to produce innovation in ever-shorter service life cycles. Recent research in partnersh...