Moving beyond orthodoxies in academic development

Moving beyond post-development: facilitating indigenous alternatives for “development”

Using the example of smallholder oil palm production in Papua New Guinea the paper illustrates how elements of a market economy and modernity become enmeshed and partly transformed by local place-based nonmarket practices. The persistence, even efflorescence, of indigenous gift exchange in tandem with greater participation in the market economy challenges conventional notions regarding the stru...

Against Orthodoxies in Rabies

Better governance in academic health sciences centres: moving beyond the Olivieri/Apotex Affair in Toronto.

The Toronto experience suggests that there may be several general lessons for academic health sciences complexes to learn from the Olivieri/Apotex affair (OAA) regarding the ethics, independence, and integrity of clinical research sponsored by for profit enterprises. From a local perspective, the OAA occurred when there already was a focus on the complex and changing relationships among the Uni...

Against Orthodoxies in Rabies

Mentor networks in academic medicine: moving beyond a dyadic conception of mentoring for junior faculty researchers.

PURPOSE Career development award programs often require formal establishment of mentoring relationships. The authors sought to gain a nuanced understanding of mentoring from the perspective of a diverse national sample of faculty clinician-researchers who were all members of formal mentoring relationships. METHOD Between February 2010 and August 2011, the authors conducted semistructured, in-...