Transforming research excellence
New ideas from the global South
Erika Kraemer-Mbula, Robert McLean, Robert Tijssen, Matthew L. Wallace (eds.)
Modern-day science is under great pressure. A potent mix of increasing expectations, limited resources, tensions between competition and cooperation, and the need for evidence-based funding is creating major change in how science is conducted and pe…
...Transforming research excel ...
...the allure of ‘research excellence’, a concept that drives decisions made by universities and funders, and defines scientists’ research strategies and career trajectories. But what is ‘excellent’ science? And how to recognise it? After decades of inquiry and debate there is still no satisfactory answer. Are we asking the wrong question? Is reality more complex, and ‘excellence in science’ more elusive, than many are willing to admit? And how should excel be defined in different...
African Minds
Cape Town,
2020,
Paperback,
296 p., il,
(In English)
ISBN 9781928502067
57 USD
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Cape Town,
2020,
Paperback,
296 p., il,
(In English)
ISBN 9781928502067
