scholarly journals Evidence on the Effect of DoD Acquisition Policy and Process and Funding Climate on Cancellations of Major Defense Acquisitions Programs

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. McNicol ◽  
Sarah K. Burns ◽  
Linda Wu
Keyword(s):  
Funding Climate

Chuck out the teacher: critical pedagogy in the community

2018 ◽  
pp. 142-156
Author(s):  
Tom Woodin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Educational Relationships ◽  
Individual Ability ◽  
Publishing Groups ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Funding Climate

The internal workings of working class writing and publishing groups reveals important insights about the nature of democracy. The attempt to form collective and co-operative groups that supported everyone led to an active re-making of educational relationships along democratic lines. The insistence upon equality between writers, irrespective of individual ability, was a cardinal principle. However, in a changing funding climate, workshops came under pressure to formalise relationships, professionalise and introduce management structures. This had mixed results as groups attempted to negotiate these tensions. The example of the Fed brings into question some key aspects of critical pedagogy which privileges the role of tutors and education as a whole and, in some cases, assumes that learners have internalised dominant ideas.

Basic research — a new funding climate?

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Skoie
Keyword(s):  
Basic Research ◽  
Funding Climate

scholarly journals Carbon tax acceptability with information provision and mixed revenue uses

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Maestre-Andrés ◽  
Stefan Drews ◽  
Ivan Savin ◽  
Jeroen van den Bergh
Keyword(s):  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Perceived Fairness ◽  
Public Acceptability ◽  
Carbon Taxation ◽  
Funding Climate ◽  
Policy Perceptions

AbstractPublic acceptability of carbon taxation depends on its revenue use. Which single or mixed revenue use is most appropriate, and which perceptions of policy effectiveness and fairness explain this, remains unclear. It is, moreover, uncertain how people’s prior knowledge about carbon taxation affects policy acceptability. Here we conduct a survey experiment to test how distinct revenue uses, prior knowledge, and information provision about the functioning of carbon taxation affect policy perceptions and acceptability. We show that spending revenues on climate projects maximises acceptability as well as perceived fairness and effectiveness. A mix of different revenue uses is also popular, notably compensating low-income households and funding climate projects. In addition, we find that providing information about carbon taxation increases acceptability for unspecified revenue use and for people with more prior tax knowledge. Furthermore, policy acceptability is more strongly related to perceived fairness than to perceived effectiveness.

scholarly journals Canadian M.D.-Ph.D. Programs Produce Impactful Physician-Scientists: The McGill Experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianwei E. Zhou ◽  
Paul A. Savage ◽  
Mark J. Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Budget Constraints ◽  
Annual Average ◽  
Protected Time ◽  
Operating Budget ◽  
Physician Scientist ◽  
Healthcare Innovation ◽  
Funding Climate ◽  
Physician Scientists ◽  
Canadian Healthcare

On June 18, 2015, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced that it would terminate funding to M.D.-Ph.D. programs due to budget constraints, against the recommendations from two advisory panels. CIHR’s M.D.-Ph.D. program grants, which amounted to an annual average of $1.8 million in the form of 14 six-year studentships, represent only 0.15% of CIHR’s $1.2 billion operating budget. As over half of M.D.-Ph.D. trainees are dependent on these studentships, this poses a threat to physician-scientist training in Canada. In response to the current volatile funding climate, we surveyed McGill University’s M.D.-Ph.D. program alumni to assess its success in producing physician-scientists. In this program, 60.0% of graduates who have completed training have become physician-scientists, the majority being retained in Canada. These individuals have attained positions with sufficiently protected time for research and had grant success and significant publications for early- to mid-career investigators. This suggests that the current M.D.-Ph.D. system is an effective way of producing competent physician-scientists. As physician-scientists have remarkably contributed to Canadian healthcare innovation despite making up a fraction of physicians and researchers, vulnerability in the M.D.-Ph.D. pipeline would invariably affect the health of Canadians.

scholarly journals Funding climate adaptation strategies with climate derivatives

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Richard Little ◽  
Alistair J. Hobday ◽  
John Parslow ◽  
Campbell R. Davies ◽  
R. Quentin Grafton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Funding Climate

Riding the waves: The politics and funding context of twenty-five years of research on community action to reduce alcohol harm in New Zealand

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Conway ◽  
Sally Casswell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Action Projects ◽  
Funding Climate ◽  
The Waves

One of the earliest evaluated community action projects on alcohol took place in New Zealand in the 1980s. This was a demonstration project using a quasi experimental design. In the two decades since, there have been a number of different approaches taken, responding to the political and economic context of the project, but all utilizing community development processes and focused on implementing policy. Six community action projects on alcohol are described and analysed to illustrate how contextual influences can shape a project. Changes in the funding climate after the 1980s meant that subsequent projects had to rely more on existing resources and non-research funds for their implementation and evaluation. Lessons from these projects are discussed and related to a generalisable knowledge base about the structure and content of effective community action projects.

scholarly journals Mentorship in academic radiology: why it matters

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam A. Bredella ◽  
David Fessell ◽  
James H. Thrall
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Faculty Mentoring ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Academic Radiology ◽  
Funding Climate

AbstractMentorship plays a critical role in the success of academic radiologists. Faculty members with mentors have better career opportunities, publish more papers, receive more research grants, and have greater overall career satisfaction. However, with the increasing focus on clinical productivity, pressure on turn-around times, and the difficult funding climate, effective mentoring in academic radiology can be challenging. The high prevalence of “burnout” among radiologists makes mentorship even more important. This article reviews benefits and challenges of mentorship in academic radiology, discusses how to institute a faculty mentoring program, examines different types of mentoring, and reviews challenges related to diversity and inclusion.

scholarly journals Several complementary methods of plant establishment are required for effective restoration of banksia woodland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Brundrett ◽  
Anna Wisolith ◽  
Margaret Collins ◽  
Vanda Longman ◽  
Karen Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Plant Density ◽  
Vegetation Type ◽  
Plant Cover ◽  
Direct Seeding ◽  
Summer Drought ◽  
Native Plant ◽  
Perennial Weed ◽  
Summer Mortality ◽  
Funding Climate

AbstractNew banksia woodland vegetation was established at two sites totalling 50 ha in the Perth region of Western Australia as part of an offset-funded project. Restoration methods included topsoil transfer (16 ha), planting of nursery-raised local provenance seedlings (46,000 seedlings over 39.5 ha) and direct seeding with machinery or by hand (16.5 ha) with treatments overlapped. Six years of rigorous monitoring revealed trends in plant diversity, density and cover and allowed comparison of vegetation structure and composition to reference sites. Of the 162 native plants recorded, 115 originated primarily from the topsoil seed bank and the remainder from planting and seeding. Native plant germination from topsoil peaked at 700,000 stems per ha in year 2, but there was very high attrition during extreme summer drought. By year 5, native perennials averaged 20,000 stems per ha, well above the target of 7,000, but there was high spatial variability in plant density with 1/3 of quadrats below target. Saplings of Banksia spp. (the dominant local trees) plateaued at 150-220 stems per ha due to high summer mortality. Native plant cover reached 20% and perennial weed cover stabilised at under 5% within 5 years. Several complimentary methods were required for successful restoration, since transferred topsoil established most of the plant diversity. However, trees required planting or seeding, due to their canopy stored seed. Direct seeding and planting without respread topsoil led to lower overall diversity and density, but higher tree density. Most completion criteria targets were reached after 5 years. Areas with respread topsoil are trending towards recovery as a banksia woodland, but areas with only planting and seeding are likely to remain a separate vegetation type. Evidence for resilience of restored areas was provided by abundant pollination and seed set and second-generation seedlings. We suggest it may be possible to restore banksia woodland despite major challenges due to unpredictable offset funding, climate, weeds, grazing, recalcitrant species, and seed availability, but long-term monitoring is required to confirm this.

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