Academic Life and Culture

 

Game-Based Approaches for Research Skills Training and Researcher Development: A Survey of Attitudes and Acceptance in Higher Education

Research skills training is both crucial and ubiquitous in Higher Education (HE), however there are a range of pedagogical challenges in effectively delivering research capabilities and learning outcomes. The move towards constructivism, including …

Game-based approaches in the teaching and learning of critical and research skills in Higher Education. [PhD thesis]

Game-Based Learning (GBL) is the integration of gaming elements into learning experiences. There are research gaps in GBL for adult learning, in particular for higher order learning outcomes within Higher Education. This leads to a lack of …

Good supervision and mentoring: a key part of responsible research cultures

Tamarinde Haven works as a postdoctoral researcher at the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Charité, Berlin, where she focusses on topics related to responsible supervision, responsible assessment, and Open Science. In her PhD, she focused …

Graduate students need more quantitative methods support

Graduate students in psychology need hands-on support to conduct research using quantitative techniques that exceed their curricular training. If supervisors are not willing or able to provide this support, student-led projects must be redesigned to …

Grand challenge: social psychology without hubris

In this editorial, the Founding Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Social Psychology expresses several ideas about the past, present, and possible future of social psychology, seeking to explain we need social psychology, why we need a new journal in …

Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences

Conversations about the internationalization of psychological sciences have occurred over a few decades with very little progress. Previous work shows up to 95% of participants in the studies published in mainstream journals are from Western, …

Harvard Professor’s Papers Contain Copied Images, Says Science Sleuth

A Harvard Medical School scientist who studies deadly brain tumors is facing accusations that more than two dozen papers he co-authored contain scientific images that appear doctored or copied.

Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of Six Papers by Top Researchers

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, is seeking to retract six studies and correct 31 other papers as part of a probe involving four of its senior cancer researchers and administrators.

How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger

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How flash mobs can be used for data collection in healthcare? A scoping review protocol

Background Traditional research methods often involve a lengthy process, but the emergence of flash mobs as an innovative data collection method offers the potential to gather substantial data within a short time frame. Flash mobs draw inspiration …