Transformative research may not be the perfect setting for a Ph.D. student to develop a thesis, Marín says.
Transformative research requires good personal and communication skills including flexibility, open-mindedness, and the ability to manage cultural differences across fields, John says.
The KTAs and HW were both researchers and participants in a transformative research process so the usual notion of researcher neutrality and objectivity could not apply.
She did find, however, that the popular hunch that transformative research tends to rely on innovative approaches is true, in that the researchers used unproven or difficult techniques, or used existing techniques creatively.
Patient advocates have quite a different idea of what would be "transformative" research.
Are toddlers meant to be locked in the hotel room by themselves while academics brainstorm about transformative research?
There is enough transformative research going on in the biological sciences and in nanotechnology to spawn entirely new industries, like making batteries from viruses.
Frances M. Visco President National Breast Cancer Coalition Washington, June 29 , 2009 To the Editor: Your article about the need to fund more transformative research on cancer applies to all scientific research.
With funding from the Economic and Social Research Council's Transformative Research initiative, we conducted a study involving people living in homes, female spouses of men with dementia who lived in a home and 16 care staff in north-west England, between May and August 2014.
"We don't want people having to game the system -- 'we'll do the incremental, non-transformative research on your dime, and we'll do the really interesting stuff when nobody's looking, because you guys aren't capable of realizing it.' That's just not what we want to happen".
Another man in our sample articulated the way that he understood the gender-transformative research of which he was a part: 'I can say that they are researching men because they say men are lacking somehow in their behaviour.
