- By Dartington SRU
- Posted on Thursday 18th December, 2014
Community engagement holds the key to successful research
Rigorous research in prevention science often relies on persuading the right people to take part and keeping them involved. Recruitment and retention strategies used successfully to evaluate an anti-obesity programme in New Mexico show just how much foresight, care and effort it can take.Community research, in particular, is an area where the recruitment and retention challenges can be formidable…
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- Posted on Friday 12th December, 2014
What can brain science bring to education?
Neuroscience is a rapidly developing field. Can a better understanding of what is happening in a child’s brain inform educational practices? Ongoing work by the Educational Endowment Foundation (EEF) and Wellcome Trust examines the potential use of neuroscience in the classroom, highlighting areas such as reading and mathematics where developments in neuroscience could help inform education.The…
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- Posted on Thursday 27th November, 2014
Why don’t policy makers make more use of research evidence?
When we have a headache we reach for the painkillers: scientifically proven remedies that we know will make things better. So why do we not rush with the same speed to evidence-based remedies for social problems? What is it that gets in the way?An international team of researchers has systematically reviewed 145 worldwide studies that explore the impact of research on public policy in order to ide…
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