What Will Research Assessment Bring Japan’s Universities?

Health psychology: what will the future bring?

This commentary highlights several important themes and trends in this series of articles focusing on the future of health psychology. First, the challenges posed by changes in populations will only be met if health psychologists can develop a contextual competency. Second, with increasing evidence for the efficacy of health psychology interventions comes heightened interest in testing the effe...

What will membrane vesicles (MVs) bring to bacterial communication?

What Will Molecular Biology Bring to Our Daily Practice ?

Power to the people: what will bring about the patient centred revolution?

The incoming coalition government wasted no time in declaring its intention to “put patients at the heart of the NHS” in England. The 2010 white paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS promised more choice, control and information. It also promisedmore shared decisionmaking with “no decision about me without me” and a powerful new “consumer” champion Healthwatch to stand up for our inte...

What Can Residential Research-­‐based Universities Learn …? What Can Residential, Research-based Universities Learn about Their Core Com- Petencies from Moocs (massive Open Online Course)?

Over the past five years Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have ignited the imagination of venture capitalists, politicians, non-traditional students and the public more than most other e-learning trends for the past decades. There have been not only hopes to „bring top-notch courses to the world’s poorest citizens and reshaping the way all students learn” but even promises to provide world c...