We need continued efforts to communicate the value of research between researchers and end-users of research (policy-makers, clinicians, and other researchers), integration of participatory research strategies, and promotion of the value of end-user involvement in research.
Focus groups and individual interviews showed considerable shifts in student attitudes about the value of research and in their development toward becoming active researchers who see research as a tool for answering questions in education.
One contributor wrote that with budgets shrinking, researchers really should be concentrating on communicating the value of research to the public.
Although that may be true, such arguments highlight the value of classroom study, not the value of research.
He appreciated the value of research and academic training, and recognized the importance of psychiatry's future advances.
He also has been a leading voice for the value of research and liberal arts education.
Current indicators of research output (such as paper counts or the h-index) conceptualize the value of research narrowly.
The service, Slosson said, would not "indulge in propaganda unless it be propaganda to urge the value of research and the usefulness of science".
Academics are effectively required to seek publication in those highly ranked places, as the journals themselves become proxies for measuring the value of research.
Scientists might become better at explaining the value of research that's happening anyway, and non-scientists might become better at tuning in to it".
However, few attempts have been made to systematically evaluate AOM practitioners' perspectives on the value of research to their profession.
