developing research and innovation
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Developing Research and Innovation. Innovation Research at Liverpool Hope University Joe Gazdula, Amanda Dalzell, Javed Munshi. What is an expert?. Enabling ‘The Virtuous , Cycle’ Novice to Expert ( adapted from Johnston et al 2000). Choosing a Research Subject or Topic. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Experts have the following Schanck (1990) :• Highly developed capacity of observation• Capacity to simplify complicated problems• Creativity• Capacity to convey expert knowledge to others• Awareness of their capabilities• Up to date knowledge
Novices Need basic research skills• Enquiry• Writing• Referencing• Subject knowledge
These come in a number of ways
accident
design
interest
currency
delegation
uniqueness
innovation
Process by which an idea or invention is translated into a good or service for which people will pay. To be called an innovation, an idea must be replicable at an economical cost and must satisfy a specific need.
research
Systematic investigative process employed to increase or revise current knowledge by discovering new facts..
exploit
The use or exploitation of something in order to gain a benefit.
profit
A measure of the success of an enterprise, it is the surplus remaining after total costs are deducted from total revenue
(www.businessdictionary .com)
Students ran a series of after school clubs under the Every Child Matters Policy – The first in the UK!
24 Schools
Over 200 children
40 teachers and support staff
5 main themes
Pupil/Student after school learning, teachers opinions and attitudes, current approaches to ECM, healthy eating, cultural awareness, IT and young children, parents attitudes, groupwork and learning, teaching methodologies, effectiveness of ECM, activity learning, attitudes to exercise, IT as a placement facilitator, new ECM approaches, etc. etc. etc.
And
We were asked to do a research project under ‘Being Healthy’
In particular how to get kids active
We wrote a commissioned paper for Liverpool Extended Schools Service
We thought we were experts by ‘Informing the Professions’
We should have got this published and peer We should have got this published and peer reviewedreviewed
20 schools
100’s children
Some teachers
What do you think they wanted?
More Research!More Research!
But it only worked 2 dance mats
And we had a problem!And we had a problem!
All the children wanted to be on a dancemat at once
More Research!More Research! We revisited the children in the schoolsWe revisited the children in the schools
They were impatientThey were impatient
Did an emoticon surveyDid an emoticon survey
Kicked the results aroundKicked the results around
Went back to the Local AuthorityWent back to the Local Authority
We had another idea!We had another idea!
We Envisaged a Fantastic We Envisaged a Fantastic Exercise SystemExercise System
HUB
We wanted to run clubs in South Liverpool to improve Health
throughout the community for;
Children
Young Adults
Mature Adults
People with Special Needs and Disabilities
But No Suitable Systems Were Available!But No Suitable Systems Were Available!
RationaleRationale
● AdaptableAdaptable
● Can build in multiple Can build in multiple aspects of healthy aspects of healthy activitiesactivities
- Dance- Dance
- Sports- Sports
- Games- Games
- Add on for individual and - Add on for individual and
Personal developmentPersonal development
- Programmable- Programmable
Concept – Multi MatConcept – Multi Mat
Our Digital Activity System
M.A.T.S.
If you’re not having a go try and get some ideas on a flipchart to answer the following question.
““Where do we go from Where do we go from here with the M.A.T.S.?’’ here with the M.A.T.S.?’’
✔ Mentoring✔ System
Development✔ Club Leaders✔ Health Awareness✔ Programming✔ Innovation
We Attracted interest from others
● Developers
● International
Researchers
●Commercial Prospects
● Big Companies
(Apple)
● International Links
Cardio respiratory adaptations eg. Cardio respiratory adaptations eg. respiratory rate band.respiratory rate band.
Individual recording of improvementsIndividual recording of improvements
Community wide health benefits (Clubs)Community wide health benefits (Clubs)
PhysiotherapyPhysiotherapy
Supports individual health plansSupports individual health plans
Provides on the ground research Provides on the ground research opportunitiesopportunities
Health Learning extensionsHealth Learning extensions
An Integrated solution!An Integrated solution!
Recent discoveries show you can treat angina (Heart artery blockages) with exercise. (Cohn 1999 )
We built the first on line Cardiology centre with NRAC
Significant health benefits for communities
Adaptable for individual needs
Research across communities (graduate -Phd level, Medical – Social Sciences)
Programmable
Can be developed from research
Adaptable
Links to LA Children and Young Peoples Plans 2006 -2009
Our entrepreneurial activities led us to develop a Dragons Den Programme with Liverpool Primary Schools.
Every Child Matters, (ECM) Economic well being, Enjoy and Achieve
More after school clubs
Start a business
Public Showcase – Liverpool City Hall
Judged by key business figures
Showing products
Being quizzed
Amanda and Javed
Uniqueness is the key
Look for the ‘new’ or unexplored
Be first! Be Certain
Don’t jump at the first opportunity
Develop your area fully
Search related avenues
Write it up
Publish!
Many Possibilities
Research to be more interdisciplinary (Burkhardt 2003)
Experts across a number of disciplines (Frazier 2008)
Arrival of ‘Research Entrepreneurs,’ not necessarily subject experts but value recognisers (Iles et al 2001)
New knowledge makes expert research easier
Web as an increasing source of information
Research to be exploited (LERA 2003) etc. etc.
Johnston, R., Matthews, M., Dodgson, M., 2000, Enabling the Virtuous Cycle: Identifying and Removing Barriers to Entrepreneurial Activity by Health and Medical Researchers in the Higher Education Sector Department of Education, Training, and Youth Affairs, Australian National University
(http://www.aciic.org.au/system/files//f4/f8/o39//wills.pdf. Accessed 10/4/09)
Howells, J., and McKinlay, C., 1999, Commercialisation of University Research in Europe, University of Manchester
Cohn, P. 1999, Emerging treatments for refractory angina, Elsevier Science
Gazdula, J. 2007, Future Schools, UK Future TV
( http://www.ukfuturetv.com/educationlearning/index.htm accessed 13/4/2009)
Burkhardt, H. 2003 Improving Educational Research:Toward a More Useful, More Influential, and Better-Funded Enterprise Educational Researcher, Vol. 32, No. 9, 3-1410.3102/013189X032009003
Frazier, R. 2008 Creative Problem solving Across Disciplines PittChronicle, University of Pittsberg Press (http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=1883 Accessed 12/4/2009)
2003 Research Intensive Universities as Engines for the ‘Europe of Knowledge’ League of European research Universities (LERA)
Schanck, R. C. (1990) What is AI anyway? The foundation of artificial intelligence, I. Partridge, D. and Wilks, Y. (Ed). Cambridge University Press, New York.
Iles, P., Yolles, M. & Altman, Y. (2001). HRM and Knowledge Management: Responding to the Challenge, Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, 9(1), 3-33