A broad definition of community practice has implications for how occupational therapy services are defined, delivered, and funded. The historical foundations of occupational therapy support an expansion into health promotion and prevention programming that is based in the community. Moving into these roles opens up an array of funding possibilities. It may also require developing new partnersh...

Manual annotation of genomic data is extremely valuable to produce an accurate reference gene set but is expensive compared with automatic methods and so has been limited to model organisms. Annotation tools that have been developed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI, http://www.sanger.ac.uk/.) are being used to fill that gap, as they can be used remotely and so open up viable communi...

The practitioners of community networking sense that its nature as a “Movement” is ending. But what does that mean? As daily life online becomes ordinary, and as capacity to engender community online becomes an ordinary function of daily life, what is effective in advancing community networking as a community of practice? How can we get a clear view of community networking as radical practice i...

The idea for a study of the attitudes of trainees and recently appointed specialists in community medicine arose out of discussions I had with successive classes of trainees on the MFCM course run by the Southern Universities Consortium. The object was to determine whether trainees considered it desirable that specialists should have the option of continuing to practise clinical medicine on a p...

Communities of Practice (CoPs) bring together practitioners who share a common interest and provide forum for them to improve upon their practice. The City Librarians Community was formed in late 2019 fulfil professional development need among librarians across the city. from sectors were invited join this multi-sectoral CoP with intent it being an opportunity networking, collaboration, sharing...