Research collaboration between practitioners and research professionals aims to develop both practice and knowledge. However, a tension can arise between these objectives: to preserve local relevance, the content, form, and timing of data collection may vary between cases, complicating the comparability …

Research collaboration between practitioners and research professionals aims to develop both practice and knowledge. However, a tension can arise between these objectives: to preserve local relevance, the content, form, and timing of data collection may vary between cases, complicating the comparability …

1. Introduction Most western societies are currently faced with an ageing population, decreasing workforce and increasingly technology-supported care. Whilst digitalisation of healthcare and care technology developments are demonstrating their adequacy and benefits in replacing professionals for certain …

Children with developmental language disorders (DLDs) may experience barriers to communicative participation. Communicative participation is defined as ‘participation in life situations in which knowledge, information, ideas or feelings are exchanged’. Barriers experienced in communicative participation …

Citizen science can be a powerful approach to foster the successful implementation of technological innovations in health, care or well-being. Involving experience experts as co-researchers or co-designers of technological innovations facilitates mutual learning, community building, and empowerment. …

Chapter 5 Research and Practice in the Professional Development of School-Based Teacher Educators Enhancing the Value of Teacher Education Research ISBN: 9789004689992

In 2004 Joke Hermes was appointed professor (lector in Dutch) at hogeschool Inholland (University of Applied Sciences). Since then she has researched media, culture and citizenship, currently with a focus on inclusion and the creative industries. She specialises in participative forms of audience research. …

The Eastern Scheldt faces sand starvation as a result of the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier construction, which has led to a decreased tidal prism and subsequent loss of intertidal areas. These areas are crucial for birds and seals to rest and forage for food. To address this issue, Rijkswaterstaat …

· As a platform for interdisciplinary applied research in the community setting, the living lab model offers a unique environment for the imagination of tourism interventions that can recast the activity as a force for good. Mandating a quadruple helix ecosystem, living labs encourage participation …