Both South Africa’s courts and its legislature have failed to do their bit in creating a culturally diverse society.
L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique
Articles sur Research
Affichage de 461 à 480 de 772 articles
African cities are failing to raise development funds through bond markets.
Information about the threats facing Lake Victoria and how they’re perceived are crucial to reverse the damage that’s been done.
Research explores why parents in Nairobi actively choose to send their children to private schools, despite the financial constraints.
Half of all patients diagnosed with cancer in the UK still die of the disease.
Official reasons for joining the Somalia mission were that the conflict posed a security risk. But in fact other factors played a bigger role.
Politics Podcast: Bill Ferris on Australia’s innovation mission
CC BY46,8 Mo (download)
Innovation and Science Australia chair Bill Ferris launched a report this week setting out a plan that seeks to put Australia into the top tier of innovation nations by 2030.
The discovery of a new prime number – and it’s a big one – is a great opportunity to revisit Marin Mersenne, the French theologian who dreamed of a formula that could predict where they hide.
Big data open-access publishing and other advances offer ecologists the ability to forecast events like pest outbreaks over days and seasons rather than decades. But scholars need to seize this opportunity.
The subject of Technology can be used to support and develop pupils’ entrepreneurial skills.
According to a management scholar, a team’s mindset and structure – not its stars – will often determine its success.
Health research in Indonesia are mostly kept in library shelves instead of being used in policymaking.
Science should be about answering the “what if?” questions, but is that under threat by the privatisation of science and the drive for results ahead of any competition?
Gaps in the two tier board structure which is favoured in Europe may be partly responsible for the Steinhoff corporate scandal.
The organisation Sense about Science advocates for openness and honesty about research, and ensures the public interest in sound science and evidence is recognised in public debates and policymaking.
Research institutes and “centres of excellence” exist around the world to draw talent and to share resources - all with the aim of solving important problems.
Tanzania’s laws about forcing girls to leave school if they’re pregnant are out-dated and miss the point.
Sporting extravaganzas are a way for globalising cities in emerging market economies to try and play the “modernity game”. But they don’t make the rules, and so they can never “win”.
Creative people seem to possess a unique connection between three brain networks that typically work separately.
E-learning is both a technological and a social innovation. At its best, it can address problems within a particular social context.
Les contributeurs les plus fréquents
-
Professor of Marketing, The Ohio State University
-
Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
-
Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
-
Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
-
Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
-
Thomas Merritt est un·e ami·e de La Conversation
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University
-
Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
-
Assistant Professor, Khalifa University
-
Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
-
Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
-
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Quality and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
-
Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
-
Associate Professor of Communication, Michigan State University
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Director, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
