Despite having a workforce consisting of highly qualified staff, some universities
do not have high levels of research productivity and lack a research culture. The
possible reasons for research-inactive staff may be due to a lack of mentoring for
“new” members of staff in terms of research proposal preparations, viable research
strategies, ongoing research supervision, as well as finding and targeting funding
agencies.
This book has been divided into three sections: the first defines and characterizes
research, with chapters identifying strategies for research and pinpointing ethical
issues; the second section discusses in detail developing the research proposal,
formulating the research problem, using statistics effectively and evaluating the
successful research project; and the final section addresses ways to write the
research results in such a way as to secure funding and publish in peer-reviewed
journals. It contains useful checklists, activities and practical suggestions to
facilitate research productivity and output.
The work is of interest to graduate students, junior-level faculty, and university
administrators committed to increasing research productivity and global research
funding and rankings.
Contributors: Serwan M.J. Baban, Patricia Mohammed, Peter Baberstock,
Clement Sankat, William Boyd, Bruce Laukner and David Lloyd
Serwan M.J. Baban is Professor of Environmental Geoinformatics, and Director
of the Centre for Geoinformatics Research and Environmental Assessment
Technology (GREAT), Southern Cross University, Australia. He was formerly
Professor of Surveying and Land Information, Chairman of the School for
Graduate Studies, and Research Coordinator for the Centre Caribbean Land and
Environmental Appraisal Research, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and
Tobago. He is the author of numerous articles in refereed journals and the editor
of Enduring Geohazards in the Caribbean: Moving from the Reactive to the Proactive.
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