Producing Planning Knowledge: How Professional PhD Candidates Bridge Research–Practice Divides

PHD - Professional Hypnosis Databank

Objective To examine South Australian obstetricians and midwives attitude's towards the use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) during pregnancy, to examine their referral patterns and their views on the usefulness and safety of these therapies during pregnancy. Design All members of the South Australian branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gy...

Theory, Practice and Policy: How can teacher research help bridge the divides

Sadly, there are commonly divides between the worlds of theory, practice and policy; in this paper I draw on 20 years experience in the Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL) and a range of other projects that have involved forms of teacher research to discuss how both the process and the products of teacher research can help bridge these divides. The paper looks at three areas where P...

The road to sustainability must bridge three great divides.

The world's large and rapidly growing human population is exhausting Earth's natural capital at ever-faster rates, and yet appears mostly oblivious to the fact that these resources are limited. This is dangerous for our well-being and perhaps for our survival, as documented by numerous studies over many years. Why are we not moving instead toward sustainable levels of use? We argue here that th...

Digital Divides in the Knowledge Society

The Professional Doctorate: Its Relativity to the PhD and Relevance for the Knowledge Economy

The Professional Doctorate (ProfDoc) is attracting increasing attention because of its perceived greater than the Doctor of Philosophy’s (PhD’s) focus on meeting the needs of the knowledge economy. The paper examines the nature of the ProfDoc vis-a-vis the PhD and identifies significant characteristics of the ProfDoc, especially in respect of relevance and performativity. It then analyses these...