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"The Complexity of Experience": A Grounded Theory Exploration of Scholarly Practice
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Falciani-White, Nancy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This grounded theory study explores the ways in which scholars conduct their research, including how they find and organize resources, how they identify and work with collaborators, how they interact with technology during the course of their research, and how they disseminate the results of a research project. Nine scholars were interviewed…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Scholarship, Researchers, Research Methodology
Evaluating the Broader Impacts of Sponsored Research through the Lens of Engaged Scholarship
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Nagy, Dianne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) broader impacts merit review criterion for research grant proposals has encountered persistent resistance from the scientific community. This study examined the factors that shape response to the broader impacts merit review criterion by investigating the effect of characteristics of NSF-funded researchers…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Evaluation Criteria, Financial Support, Research Projects
The Making of a Researcher, Researcher-in-the-Making: An Empirical Examination of Practices and Processes Involved with Doctoral Research Training
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Jenkins, Damian Elizabeth Corbin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Over the past three decades, researchers have studied doctoral research training programs using large scale surveys making visible trends in numbers of and kinds of research courses required, or using focused qualitative methods to gain rich, textured accounts of graduate school experiences. Both kinds of studies fail to capture the local,…
Descriptors: Program Development, Researchers, Doctoral Programs, Research Methodology
Big Science, Nano Science?: Mapping the Evolution and Socio-Cognitive Structure of Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Using Mixed Methods
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Milojevic, Stasa – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examines the development of nanoscience/nanotechnology over a 35 year period (1970-2004) by mapping its social and cognitive structures using social network analysis, bibliometrics and document analysis, and following their changes in time. Mapping is performed based on 580,000 journal articles, 240,000 patents and 53,000 research…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Network Analysis, Cognitive Structures, Social Structure