Traditional Academia Research Articles

The Sex Work Historian

The Sex Work Historian is a multi-media collaborative effort that utilizes the author’s skills and experiences as a trained historian to highlight the many struggles and resistances of sex worker communities. As a collaborative effort, The Sex Work Historian is both living and ongoing, prioritizing and working alongside those already combatting whorephobia. Often operating outside the bounds of traditional academia, The Sex Work Historian consists of a blog, its own Twitter/X, Instagram, and Bluesky social media accounts, and a Discord and Twitch channel, all of which focus on sex work and sex workers. Through these various modes of engagement, The Sex Work Historian offers one more voice, comprised of various stories, experiences, and realities, in the fight against the endless cycles of erasure sex workers and their histories face.

Anthropology at speed, at scale, in action: The CommuniVax example

AbstractThis special issue presents accounts of different aspects of the CommuniVax Coalition and its work—a project that conducted rapid, multisited, applied anthropological research to deliver guidance during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Our purpose in writing these articles is to provide details of our work so anthropologists interested in similar types of research can learn from our efforts. While anthropological research has been, and largely still is, an endeavor of individuals at a relatively slow pace, the future of the discipline, and especially of anthropologists working outside traditional academia, is team‐based, rapid research. As such, anthropologists need to know how to conduct research at speed, participate as members of research teams and, more importantly, how to organize and lead teams to conduct timely, collaborative, focused, and practical research.

Empowering Students Through Entrepreneurship: Assessing Skill Acquisition in Targeted Project-Based Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly transformed the educational landscape, with students, educators, and institutions adapting to new challenges and opportunities. As students navigate the academic terrain reshaped by the pandemic, they are in pursuit of educational journeys that blend hands-on, practical skills alongside foundational aspects of traditional academia, highlighting a shift towards more meaningful and applicable learning experiences. Entrepreneurship has emerged as a key area of interest, yet a gap exists regarding whether smaller liberal arts institutions can compete in the higher education landscape and make an impact by infusing targeted entrepreneurial projects into the curriculum, focusing on the skills acquired. Through qualitative analysis of end-of-term reflections and depth interviews with an undergraduate population engaged in entrepreneurial educational experiences and projects, using a tripart Entrepreneurial Skills (ES) model as a reference framework, themes emerged that can help form a better understanding of how students gain proficiency and compete in a global and digital world through entrepreneurial initiatives in higher education, including the ability to be open to novelty, to create solutions to emerging problems, and to communicate effectively.

"Paper in a day": A model to encourage psychology collaboration and participation in research/program evaluation.

Although psychologists are trained to conduct research as well as clinical work, it can be challenging for psychologists outside of traditional academia to find the time or capacity to engage in research. Providing opportunities for practicing psychologists to conduct research may enhance the generalizability of psychological research, as well as provide benefits to psychologists in terms of collaboration, promotion, and engagement. Yet, several barriers exist, including competing demands on time, lack of institutional support, and limited research confidence. This article describes "Paper in a Day" (PiaD), a novel approach to research engagement that is well-suited for busy practitioners. PiaD considers many of the aforementioned factors and provides a method to navigate the often-daunting prospect of research involvement for the practicing clinician. Through PiaD, two Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers engaged clinicians and trainees in collaborating in a time-limited way to write and publish peer-reviewed articles. The current article outlines the process by which clinicians at these two sites structured research engagement utilizing PiaD, and it was also written utilizing the PiaD model. The authors have now led or participated in the PiaD process five times, with 13 teams of clinicians producing nine peer-reviewed articles and five conference presentations. A brief survey indicated that participants felt engaged in the process and would participate again if given the opportunity. This article outlines barriers and facilitators of the PiaD process, with the hope of encouraging other settings to consider using such a method to enhance research productivity and engagement for psychologists. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

The Potential of Public–Private Partnerships for the Bioeconomy

GEN BiotechnologyVol. 2, No. 3 EditorialFree AccessThe Potential of Public–Private Partnerships for the BioeconomyHana El-SamadHana El-SamadE-mail Address: helsamad@altoslabs.comEditor-in-Chief, GEN Biotechnology.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:19 Jun 2023https://doi.org/10.1089/genbio.2023.29097.editorialAboutSectionsPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is betting on an imminent $1-trillion bioeconomy, with the potential of growing to multiple trillions in the next 10–20 years. Last year, a task force on synthetic biology and the bioeconomy, commissioned by Schmidt Futures, produced a remarkably detailed and actionable report, with five strategic areas and many recommendations to deliver a resilient and competitive bioeconomy.1 The recommendations ranged from growing a diverse talent pool to building a national infrastructure for bioproduction scale-up capacity, to changing regulatory funding and practices, and to modernizing data sharing infrastructures.In an interview with Forbes in May 2023, Schmidt augmented this list with some additional elements.2 First, he commented on his excitement about “the prospects for AI to accelerate many sectors of the bioeconomy—biomedical, agricultural, and industrial—as well as to drive new basic research discoveries in biology broadly.” He also highlighted the critical need to increase public trust in new biotechnologies by applying them responsibly and increasing confidence that these technologies will ultimately improve lives.He then reiterated the need for reformulating commercialization and regulatory processing, emphasizing “a deliberate focus on moving engineering biology discoveries from lab to market, helping new technology developers through new loan programs for biomanufacturing infrastructure, as well as through newly streamlined, clear regulatory processes.”Of particular interest was Schmidt's emphasis on the need for public–private partnerships (PPPs), using as an example BIOMADE (see below), where Schmidt Futures has made an important investment. PPPs are R&D networks that involve a range of stakeholders, including traditional academia and industry stakeholders, charities, patient organizations, and even national regulatory agencies. In the context of biomedical research, PPPs have typically been leveraged for initiatives targeting diseases that are more common in the developing world, the one notable example being Sanofi's development of fexinidazole for treating sleeping sickness.This project was a PPP, including seven European countries (France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom) as well as private foundations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Medecins Sans Frontieres.BIOMADE is a particularly compelling initial example for a bioeconomy-focused PPP. It is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and a member of Manufacturing USA®, a national network of public–private collaborations created to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing. BIOMADE membership includes an impressive array of companies, universities, and national laboratories, community and technical colleges, nonprofit and K-12 education, as well as venture capital.As an example of its many activities, BIOMADE announced in April 2023 a roster of five projects (supported by Schmidt Futures) to advance bioreactor design and development. The membership of these projects includes both universities and for-profit companies. Commenting on these projects and the prospect of success of the BIOMADE model, Schmidt brings up three points that merit contemplation and discussion.First, these projects are a meaningful coinvestment, leveraging the opportunity for the total being more than the sum of its parts with enhanced capabilities compared with private-only or public-only enterprises.Second, the BIOMADE ecosystem surrounding these projects is purposefully constructed for sharing technologies created by any team with other BIOMADE members, while preserving proprietary information. This seems like a strategy tailored to promote the public's interest.Third—and this gave me reflective pause given that I am a San Francisco dweller—BIOMADE has a site in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. This location in the nation's heartland, Schmidt argues, is “important because a thriving future bioeconomy depends on distributing production evenly across the country, not just in the known coastal hubs of biotechnology such as Boston and San Francisco.”Broad research on the topic has generated some understanding of additional benefits of PPPs, including amalgamation of unique skills, expertise, and resources of multiple players, reduced costs, and diversified risks among stakeholders, as well as increased project efficiency owing to clear timelines and goals.3,4 At the same time, PPPs, including BIOMADE, have many documented challenges.5Nonetheless, for all the reasons mentioned above, it is clear that PPPs are a model worth considering at scale for biotechnology. This discussion would be interesting to follow as the footprint of the bioeconomy continues to grow and as governments scrutinize the role of the bioeconomy in both societal and national security challenges and solutions. The opportunity to forge synergistic partnerships across sectors through BIOMADE and other similar PPPs is very meaningful. It is one where public sector players can work productively as partners to balance the public interest, including equity, fair access, inclusion, and environmental considerations with the market pull.

Uma conversa filosófica com Lorena Cabnal da Guatemala

Abstract: In this paper I want to focus on the feminist Lorena Cabnal from Guatemala. I want to do so through her words in various spaces: videos, conferences, conversations with her, and her writings. My final goal is to engage with Cabnal’s ideas/actions not only as feminist thought, but as philosophical formulations, even though they are not presented as they are usually presented in traditional academia, and they are not formulations involving universal categories. I want to talk with/from the concepts she develops in/with her experience in the same way as we usually engage with concepts formulated by an intellectual recognized as such by academia. My conversation with Cabnal will be grounded in my particular experience as a mestiza woman philosopher from Colombia (Diana Milena PATIÑO, 2021).

Me, You and the Big Picture: Top Academic Managers’ Narratives of Entrepreneurship

This case study examines how top academic managers make sense of entrepreneurship at the university. Based on semiotic analysis, the findings outline three management narratives. The entrepreneurial narrative emphasizes management by experience, the humanistic narrative focuses on management by networks and the development narrative highlights management by vision. Unpacking the dynamics of each narrative, our analysis sheds light on the conflicted role of academic managers at a crossroads between traditional academia and entrepreneurial management. Research Questions/Objective How top academic managers make sense of entrepreneurship at the university through narratives? Links to Theory The conceptual and theoretical framework of this case study is built based on academic entrepreneurship and narrative theory. Phenomenon Studied Academic entrepreneurship Case Context Academic top managers of a Finnish multidisciplinary university Findings The findings outline how top academic managers make sense of academic entrepreneurship through three management narratives. The entrepreneurial narrative centres around the idea of management by experience and emphasizes the manager’s own entrepreneurial experiences. The humanistic narrative centres around the idea of management by networks highlighting how the managers can guide and assist others who act as entrepreneurs. Finally, the development narrative centres around management by vision and focuses on the overall picture of the entrepreneurial university. Discussions The case study implies that academic entrepreneurship (AE) is understood and conceptualized by the managers in multifaceted and sometimes contradictory ways. Representing the frontline of academic management and changes in Finnish universities, the top academic managers are confronted with tensions between the ideals of traditional academia and the contemporary entrepreneurial developments in universities. This study contributes to the field of academic management by highlighting the much-needed experience-based perspective of top academic managers in relation to AE.

THE ROLE OF ELECTRONIC EDUCATION IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

The word e-learning is used synonymously with virtual knowledge, online education, computer-based training, web-based knowledge, and networked education. Whatever may be the explanation of e-learning, it is revamping the style traditional academia teaches and the learners grasp. E-Learning has made education easy for everyone including office-goers, housewives etc without compromising much. E-Learning is effective and powerful. It makes information easy to grasp and absorb. It imparts enhanced ability to learn and implement among the learners. This article is about the changes that are entering the education system today through information technology. In addition, the pros and cons of distance learning, which is widely used today, are extensively analyzed in this article.

Social media in academics and research: 21st‐century tools to turbocharge education, collaboration, and dissemination of research findings

The near-ubiquitous use of smartphones and the rapid emergence of free, widely used, social media platforms have combined to turbocharge the dissemination of information at a scale and speed that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. Increasingly, internet-savvy pathologists of all ages from every corner of the world are flipping the paradigm of traditional academia by posting educational content online free of charge, unencumbered by the limitations of traditional print media and educational conferences. These platforms are being used in innovative ways, not just to disseminate research findings, but also to create new knowledge through using them to empower research collaborations. In this review, we outline ways in which social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, are being used by pathologists to enhance academic work and facilitate the dissemination of research. We outline key differences between the various platforms with respect to pathology academics and research, and describe key areas in which these platforms have already made an impact. These include rapid dissemination of research findings to a worldwide audience, live transnational discussion of journal articles and conference proceedings, intercontinental networking between pathologists for academic purposes, free education on a global scale at minimal or no cost, and research collaborations initiated on and facilitated by social media platforms. Finally, we provide practical tips for pathologists who wish to adopt these novel 21st-century technologies to enhance their academic endeavours.

¡Adelante! Reflections and Aspirations on the First Anniversary of LALVC

We take this opportunity to reflect on the first year of publishing LALVC , plan for the future, and thank all of the contributors, peer reviewers, editorial board members, subscribers, and other supporters. The enthusiasm for LALVC 's content, as revealed by submissions, subscriptions, mentions on

A Design Approach to Teaching an Entrepreneurial Mindset

The following research explores methods to develop an entrepreneurial culture with a growth mindset among adolescents, within the age bracket of 9 to 11 years old. In doing so, the proposal argues for the cultivation of an alternative learning experience that would not only challenge the rigorous hold of traditional academia over student imagination, but also acknowledge the impact of climate change, a surge in population growth, and high levels of automation, which, if left unaddressed, may jeopardize human ability to preserve capital and create long‐term sustained growth.

Biohackers: A growing number of amateurs join the do-it-yourself molecular biology movement outside academic laboratories.

EMBO Reports (2019) e48397 Just a bit more than a decade ago, genetic engineering was the sole purview of biologists with an advanced degree working in highly specialized laboratories. PCR, for instance, a staple technique of molecular biology to create multiple copies of DNA fragments, requires DNA synthesizers, PCR machines, and reagents that used to be expensive and were only available to researchers working in academic or industry laboratories. Today, anyone wanting to dwell into molecular biology can buy a PCR machine, reagents, primers, and other materials online. The same is true for cloning experiments: Anyone with Internet access can easily find protocols online and order DNA sequences, reagents, and equipment. Amateur molecular biologists can even save themselves from the hassle of buying equipment and reagents, and join a community laboratory to run their experiments. As a result, more and more people are becoming do‐it‐yourself (DIY) biologists or biohackers, amateurs outside traditional academia, who tweak DNA, as well as any trained researcher, but without having to submit to the rules of mainstream science. To some, biohackers are just a group of wannabe scientists, while others think they are a creative force to some extent akin to the computer hackers in the 1990s who started a whole new industry. However, some are worried about the potential safety and health risks of DIY biohacking. These concerns relate not only to nefarious or criminal abuse to create biological weapons or modify pathogens, but also to human and public health. These worries are not at all unfounded. Indeed, there are examples of amateurs trying to circumvent the usual route and safety checks of clinical research, such as a biohacker who tried to develop a purported cure for lactose intolerance [1]. Skipping the traditional routes of human clinical trials, he swallowed his concoction during a live …

An Investigation into Uncovering and Understanding Tacit Knowledge in a First‐Year Design Studio Environment

AbstractTacit knowledge, intuitive responses, empirical research – how can design elevate itself as a discipline when its main forms of knowledge gathering and generation are still believed to be less valuable than those in traditional academia? Beginning design students must learn to put words to their actions, to understand their processes and to be critical and reflective throughout all stages of a project. By guiding students into developing rigorous iterative processes that combine theoretical research, empirical research, questioning and reflection students will no longer need to hide behind the lure of the enigma of intuition. The introduction of writing in the studio classroom is one method that can help students see the relationship between the various stages of their creative process and articulate the reasons behind the decisions they make. Experiential learning techniques that combine writing, making, research and reflection will help students shift their personal frames of reference and thus create a more critically engaged student body.

The trend for “preserving classical learning” in Anhui in the late Qing dynasty: Centered on Shen Zengzhi and the Tongcheng School

In the waning years of the Qing dynasty, traditional Chinese academia generally presented an aspect of decay and disintegration. However, in Anhui Province, the study of the classics was still commonly practiced: the gentry and officials were profoundly in accord with respect to the intrinsic principles of regional cultural and academic development, and worked in concert in the cause of cultural education, thus forming an intertwined structure in which the literati way of thinking, relations between bureaucrats and elites, academic customs, and the cause of cultural education mutually complemented one another. Shen Zengzhi (沈曾植, 1850–1922), Yao Yonggai (姚永概, 1866–1923), Ma Qichang (马其昶, 1855–1930), and other elites from the Tongcheng School held liberal yet well-rooted ideas on education and cultural views, and embodied distinctive considerations and choices with respect to the continuation and perpetuation of Chinese learning. Anhui learning of the late Qing dynasty, chiefly represented by the Tongcheng School, emphasized the “lineage method” of passing down learning from master to disciple, and minimized “sectarianism”; it took a forward-thinking and liberal approach to Western learning, actively adjusting to the changing times. The observations in this article may aid us in casting aside a potential tendency toward “demonization” prior to this point, adhering to the traditional respect for elites in Chinese culture, and taking a “localized” perspective to further understand the contemporary characteristics of Chinese society in the late Qing and early Republican eras, as well as those aspects that were “unchanged” or experienced “change within tradition.”

This thing called life.

Academic pursuits are inseparable from the medium within which they take place — life. The lives of medical trainees can present many challenges that are independent of academic demands. Poor psychological health has been found to develop in medical trainees. Can medical educators minimize this decline in well-being? Positive education — learning skills for traditional academia and to foster happiness — has been shown to improve students’ well-being. This piece considers the application of ‘positive education’ to medical training. By using this approach, we may optimize the lives of our trainees, potentially enhance learning and improve their academic and personal outcomes.

The sensitive knowledge of dance

Abstract In this article I will discuss the dancer’s physical potential and the sensitive knowledge (‘la connaissance sensible’) that emerges from dance practice. For this, I take Lévi-Strauss’ (2010) theory of the ‘savage mind’ as a reference. This theory is important to understand how the discipline of dance does not need to be justified through modern science (Lévi-Strauss 2010). It is understood that dance operates from sensitive knowledge, while modern science is expressed through the intelligible. I will point out how the dancer operates the sensitive, or dancing, thought, stressing that this type of knowledge is created through interest in how to use it and not through interest in how it serves, or what it means. I will then explain how, through sensitive knowledge, dancers propose new challenges during their aesthetic training in order to develop new body technologies, thereby increasing their expressive potential. For this, dancers need to develop body acuity. In other words, I will discuss the processes that dancers use to transform the perception of the self and of the world through danced gestures. In this process, the dancer is always looking for new challenges; he/she constantly deals with new risks in order to discover new knowledge. I will also discuss the problem that dance faces in traditional academia, which disregards sensitive knowledge and values scientific knowledge.

Translating evidence-based interventions from research to practice: challenges and lessons learned.

Despite the increasing popularity of translation research, few studies have described the process and challenges involved in implementing a translation study. The main objective was to determine whether a multi-component group behavioral intervention could be successfully translated from an academic setting into the community health system of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in Miami, NY, and NJ. Key challenges and "lessons learned" from the dissemination and implementation process for the SMART/EST (Stress Management And Relaxation Training/Emotional Supportive Therapy) Women's Project (SWP) III in low-resource primary care settings are described. The Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance (RE-AIM) model served as the theoretical framework for the translation of the study. This study outlines several essential factors related to Glasgow's RE-AIM model that need to be considered in order to accomplish successful translation of evidence-based interventions from traditional academia to "real-world" community health center settings.

Aportes al conocimiento desde áreas intersticiales. Género y epistemologías no legitimadas

Las propuestas metodológicas en torno a la generación de nuevos conocimientos han considerado al menos en los últimos treinta años variables que no son siempre atendidas por la academia más tradicional; por ejemplo aquella que proviene de la práctica sociocultural y por el que apuestan diversos investigadores como Estelle Barrett (2010) -conocimiento situado en la persona- Brad Haseman (2006) -investigación performativa- o el que aportó Elliott Eisner en 1981 cuando presentó su decálogo sobre los aportes de las artes en la educación por sobre los métodos científicos, pues se enfocan más en la creación de sentido que en el descubrimiento de la verdad.Por otra parte, el punto de mira de la investigación, desde la epistemología feminista, se ha modificado de una verdad general a una objetividad situada (Haraway 2004; Braidotti, 2009; De Lauretis, 2004), que permite dar cuenta del contexto específico, así como de la temporalidad y la espacialidad del fenómeno investigado. Los criterios metodológicos abordan también ya la posicionalidad del investigador (Denzin y Lincoln) y le toman en cuenta al momento de emitir resultados de las mismas (Aguirre-Calleja, 2012).

The scholarship of application in the context of academic entrepreneurialism

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to undertake an inquiry into the way academic entrepreneurialism manifests itself in the changing discourses of the notion of “scholarship”. It particularly examines the contexts, rationales, definitions and implications of the discursive field of the “scholarship of application”. The global trend of academic entrepreneurialism profoundly affects the organisation of higher education institutions and academic life. Particularly, the form of scholarship has been undergoing subtle but constant transformation. The emergence of knowledge economies worldwide influences the practices and goals of traditional academy and illustrates commitment for fundamental knowledge and the new economies emphasise the results and impacts brought by applied knowledge. Alongside the “scholarship of discovery”, the “scholarship of application” is given attention.Design/methodology/approach– By reviewing the related literature, this paper articulates the definitions and dimensions of the “scholarship of application”. In addition, the impacts brought about by the concerned academic and policy discourses will be discussed.Findings– This paper finds that the emergence of the discursive field of the “scholarship of application” – as well as the discussions and actions in response to it – coincide with the intense neoliberal changes that affected traditional academia in the 1990s. It is argued that the emergence of and subsequent responses to the discursive field of the “scholarship of application” resulted in transforming purposes and practices of academic life. The discursive field of the “scholarship of application” also impacts on the concerned academic and policy discourses.Originality/value– To sustain the advancement of the scholarship of application, this paper implies the need to develop practices, cultivate culture as well as formulate prestige and reward mechanisms inherent to the existing higher education systems.

Reflections on Communication and Sport

In this essay, Garry Whannel reflects on why research on media and sport has often been disdained by traditional academia and liberal intelligentsia. The first section argues that mediated sports are an important constituent part of popular culture, making its discourses worthy of scholarly study. The second section considers how early studies of mediated sport set in the tradition of British cultural studies opened the door to a inquiry that has grown in importance in both critical sport and media studies. The central section focuses on the complexities of “sport analysis, snobbery, and anti-intellectualism.” Considered here is the early and continued resistance to the study of media and sport and its derogatory stigmatization as a “Mickey Mouse” subject even in the face of excellent scholarship that has developed around the cultural and political analysis of sport. The article closes with suggestions for future work and ways to change narrative constructions of the field.