Last year it hosted its inaugural meeting to engage with academia.
Chakrabortty complains that we don't engage beyond academia: "Confronted with the biggest crisis since the 30s, the trade body for British sociologists proudly displayed its engagement by enumerating articles in the Journal of Niche Studies".
For students You don't have to be engaged in academia, of course, to enjoy the current Royal Court mainstage entry, "In the Republic of Happiness," but it helps to be alive and alert to theatrical form when taking in the playwright Martin Crimp's latest.
From the beginning, the central IMCI unit engaged with academia and professional organisations who participated in planning and adaptation.
For this reason, industry should actively engage with researchers in academia – starting with networking and discussions of company's needs and the potentially useful academic results, gradually bringing this into productive industry-academia collaborations.
The plan calls for creation of a robust research and development environment for immunisations, and urges academia to "engage more with systematic reviews to identify areas where solid scientific evidence exists (which should be the basis of health policies) and those areas where such evidence is lacking (which would be the basis for future primary research)".
Indeed, it is entirely to be expected that crime scientists, who now have an established place in academia, will increasingly engage in these kinds of theoretical endeavors that serve academia's interests.
Pharmaceutical companies are also much more willing to engage in open research collaborations with academia than they were a decade ago, he adds.
Last year, Christie Whitman, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, defended the fellowship in House appropriation hearings, saying it "continues to successfully engage the best environmental scientists and engineers from academia through a variety of competitive, peer reviewed grants".
"If the UK is to engage fully with the wider world in business, diplomacy and academia, then many more young people need to be studying languages," she said.
