Wages may make it hard to attract scientists to synchrotrons

Teaching Computer Scientists to Make Use

Scenario-based design is a family of techniques in which the use of a future system is concretely described at an early point in the development process. Narrative descriptions of envisioned usage episodes are then employed in a variety of ways to guide the development of the system that will enable these use experiences. Scenarios are stories of users and their behaviour, which makes them an e...

Recruitment to trials - why is it hard and how might we make it less so?

Background Recruiting participants to trials can be extremely difficult. Estimates of just how difficult vary but around half of trials fail to recruit their original target sample size. Poor recruitment can lead to an underpowered study, which may report clinically relevant effects to be statistically non-significant. A non-significant finding increases the risk that an effective intervention ...

Managing To Make It: Afterthoughts

Why make diversity so hard to achieve?

It Won’t Be Easy: How to Make Universal Pharmacare Work in Canada

One of the glaring gaps in Canada’s universal healthcare system is the low level of public financing of prescription drugs - 42.7% of total spending in 2018. At the federal level there is renewed interest in moving towards universal coverage, supported by a recently commissioned report on how to achieve it. It will take superb political navigation to extract Canadian ph...