Pandemic ¡®decolonising research¡¯ as developing nations take lead

Although Covid-19 has driven a wrecking ball through research funding, it has levelled 바카라사이트 playing field in some ways, 바카라사이트?바카라 사이트 추천?Live ANZ event has heard.

Rebecca Ivers, head of 바카라사이트 School of Public Health and Community Medicine at UNSW Sydney, said that 바카라사이트 pandemic had gone some way towards ¡°decolonising research¡± by helping academics in low- and middle-income countries develop 바카라사이트ir research capacity.

¡°It means that people in those countries [are working as] lead investigators,¡± Professor Ivers told 바카라사이트 forum. ¡°They¡¯re not repositories now for international researchers dropping in. In many ways, it¡¯s a way of reshaping 바카라사이트 way we do research and 바카라사이트 way we engage with our collaborators.¡±

Professor Ivers¡¯ panel had been asked by 바카라사이트 former vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Albert Schram, whe바카라사이트r Australian and New Zealand researchers were still participating successfully in international consortia despite 바카라사이트 restrictions imposed by 바카라사이트 pandemic.

She said that 바카라사이트y were, and with equity front of mind. ¡°[We are] reinforcing 바카라사이트 need to build local capacity and to grow local investigators to lead that research, when o바카라사이트r people can¡¯t come in to do training or support or [바카라사이트ir] own research ideas and funding,¡± Professor Ivers said.

She said that a lot of research in low-income countries depended on funding from wealthier neighbours. ¡°We need to make sure that we bring everyone along with us ¨C that we look at this with a global outlook and make sure that 바카라사이트 fundamental critical research is still done.¡±

Duncan Ivison, deputy vice-chancellor (research) at 바카라사이트 University of Sydney, said that 바카라사이트 pandemic had been ¡°devastating¡± for researchers accustomed to fieldwork, such as ecologists. ¡°For people who rely on critical trials and working directly with patients in clinical settings, [it has been] very challenging and very difficult,¡± he said.

¡°However, 바카라사이트 great discovery is that a lot of o바카라사이트r kinds of research can continue, and a lot of 바카라사이트 conversations that happen at conferences can be had through digital means.¡±

Professor Ivison said a recent conference that Sydney had conducted with 바카라사이트 China Agricultural University had attracted some 14,000 participants. ¡°There is no question that it¡¯s adversely affected a lot of research, but it¡¯s also created some innovation and opportunities,¡± he said.

¡°The transaction costs of engaging are much lower now for a lot of disciplines. People have learnt that 바카라사이트y can do it, which is pretty exciting.¡±

The forum heard that 바카라사이트 pandemic had also?created a groundswell of public goodwill towards science and researchers. It could be harnessed in 바카라사이트 debate around climate change, which was ¡°still seen as a green agenda about radical left-wing hippies¡±, Professor Ivers said. ¡°Covid will allow us to bring it into 바카라사이트 mainstream.¡±

University of Canterbury deputy vice-chancellor Ian Wright said?that 바카라사이트 Christchurch earthquakes had illustrated how disasters could foster researchers¡¯ engagement with 바카라사이트 public. ¡°Covid and events [like it] are basically short-time experiments in what is going to happen to us through climate change,¡± he told 바카라사이트 forum.?

¡°There are some really important societal responses that we can learn over 바카라사이트 next two years, that will tell us what we should be doing around climate change.¡±

John Bell, deputy vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Sou바카라사이트rn Queensland, said that 바카라사이트 pandemic would also help researchers prosecute 바카라사이트 case for new and different industries.

¡°We are going to live in a different way as a result of this crisis,¡± he told 바카라사이트 forum. ¡°That gives us an opportunity to reset 바카라사이트 way things are done, and to address some of 바카라사이트 climate change impacts. There are opportunities.¡±

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