Deadliest cancers in research funding gap: report - CBC news

How do charities become 'popular' and which conditions are marketed best - and what relationship is there with actual risk.

This is helpful.

Deadliest cancers in research funding gap: report - Health - CBC News


One of the projects I am working on at the moment is to investigate the role of charities in the research system. But it isn't sexy. Nevertheless, medical charities now represent a significant level of research funding compared with government expenditure.

Fix the PhD system - Nature.

There is a very interesting set of articles in a recent issue of Nature

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7343/full/472259b.html

A must read. Even if you don't agree, it is a very though provoking set of articles. Personally, I lean towards agreeing the systems needs fixing. But what that looks like isn't clear.

Brian.

Canadian businesses need our social science PhDs

Recently from University Affairs Few academic supervisors ever advise their social science PhD students to seek employment in the private sector. It is time that changed. Canadian businesses need our social science PhDs And of course the only response to that is - of course. The Canadian economy is probably as dependent on the social sciences as it is the natural sciences - but that is seemingly a secret.