Tag: Research funding

Kickstarting research on development: Right on involvement, wrong on outputs

by Dominik Lukeš · 2012-04-09

What it is I've written a lot on this site about the idea of using crowdsourced funding to support research efforts. Here's the first example of that sort of thing that I've come across. What Works in Development: 10 Meta-Analyses of Aid Programs is a funding call for $10,000 to support research dissemination. Namely printing…

Toward Community-based Research for Education

by Dominik Lukeš · 2011-02-11

It is no secret that there is a huge gap between research and practice in education (and many other areas of social practice). Here's a suggestion of a model that might remedy some of this. Parts of it are based on a draft of a proposal for development project. Why community-based research? There are many…