background: evaluating the research projects in qualitative and quantitative terms is necessary to clarify their advantages and disadvantages and to resolve the possible failures.   purpose: the study aims to assess the quality of the approved research projects. the objective is to determine whether the design of the research in the approved proposals is accurate in regard of different scientif...

Findings Qualitative findings informed changes to fundamental aspects of trial design and proposed outcome measures. Clinicians’ interpretations of the original interventions were variable, and descriptions of current practice/ terminology consistently differed with assumptions made in the grant proposal and commissioned call for research. New outcomes were recognised, prompted by clinicians’/p...

Writing an educational research grant in health profession education is challenging, not only for those doing it for the first time but also for more experienced scholars. The intensity of the competition, the peculiarities of the grant format, the risk of rejection, and the time required are among the many obstacles that can prevent educational researchers with interesting and important ideas ...

The review process of academic, scientific research and its basic tenets is considered, thereby distinguishing between (i) reviewing of manuscripts to be published in the scientific literature, (ii) reviewing of research proposals to be financed by funding agencies, (iii) reviewing of educational or research institutions with respect to their proper functioning, and (iv) reviewing of scientists...

I begin by stating that I have not regretted coming back to Greece after 17 years of working abroad and that I have no plans to seek employment in another country. I still enjoy both living in and doing science in Greece. Having said that, let me say that most non-Greeks to whom I describe my life as a researcher tend to see in me a clear-cut case of schizophrenia. How can one plan anything in ...

While Elizabeth Barrett Browning counted 25 ways in which she loves her husband in her poem, "How Do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways," we identified only eight ways to evaluate the potential for success of a federal research grant proposal. This may be surprising, as it seems upon initial glance of the review criteria used by various federal funding agencies that each has its own distinct se...

Climate virtue ethics points to the subjective/personal dimensions of climate ethics, which have been largely neglected by previous research. There is a lot of research from diverse fields that pertains to the cultural and the individual dimensions that come along with climate virtue ethics, but, as of yet, these dimensions have hardly been examined together. Future research on climate virtue e...

My current and planned research divides into three areas: the relationship between stable and unstable cohomology operations, the differential topology of loop spaces, and the use of category theory in geometry. This research lies in the areas of algebraic topology, differential topology, and differential geometry and it has further application to mathematical physics. In addition to the techni...