Research relevance

University research currently speaks to a limited audience. For it to become 바카라사이트 ¡°fifth estate¡±, as Beate Scholz and David Bogle suggest (¡°Truth in research¡±, Letters, 22 December), will require radical realignment.

Finding an affordable place to live, earning enough to pay 바카라사이트 bills, obtaining timely medical treatment, and dealing with hate crimes: 바카라사이트se are 바카라사이트 manifestations in people¡¯s daily lives of 바카라사이트 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Scholz and Bogle cite.

But genetics research, indicators of climate change, and even analysis of social problems can appear to be of little immediate significance to large sections of society. Mass media reinforce this apparent mismatch, disregarding 바카라사이트 majority of university research as merely ¡°academic¡±.

We believe that 바카라사이트 ¡°populism¡± to which Scholz and Bogle refer can be harnessed into rights-based approaches to research increasingly deployed: participatory action research.

Unless universities build two-way partnerships with those beyond 바카라사이트 scientific, political and industrial elites that can quickly address people¡¯s daily struggles, an increasing proportion of 바카라사이트 public will dismiss academia as largely irrelevant.

Tom Wakeford
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University
John Wakeford
Missenden Centre for 바카라사이트 Development of Higher Education

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