A Commentary on Blackett: Operational Research

’Excellence in research on schools’ - a commentary

The DfEE in early 1998 commissioned the Institute for Employment Studies at the University of Sussex to undertake a review of educational research relating to schools in England (Hillage et al., 1998). This report, published in August 1998 was based upon a literature review of research activities, 40 interviews with ’stakeholders’ a mixture of researchers, people from research funding bodies, n...

Operational Research: a Multidisciplinary Field

This paper is focusing on the following question: What is Operational Research (OR)? We will show that there is not a single and simple answer. Epistemological assumptions and practical traditions define different types of OR. We have identified three: The technical or hard OR, the practical or soft OR, and the critical OR. Following a historical perspective we will present these three schools....

A commentary on hunger in Quranic verses

Hunger has been always regarded as one of the signs in mysticism and morality and all Sufis have known it as one of the bases for their special manner of life. Some have known it to mean eating based on need, some other to mean fasting and some to mean not eating but necessarily. The author, as is understood in the paper, relying on Quran and sunnah, has explained that the meanings are intended...

Commentary on population health intervention research.

This commentary discusses the importance of the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network in facilitating the coordination and infrastructure of Canada's public health system. Within Canada, effective intervention practice and research is at the forefront of public health, but there are questions regarding how best to conduct population health intervention research, how to put the evidence into practi...

Commentary: Patanjali and neuroscientific research on meditation