Research, policy and funding - academic treadmills and the squeeze on intellectual spaces1

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 176-195

  Smith, Katherine ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evidence based policy; Health inequalities; Knowledge transfer; Public sociology; Research funding; UK

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FREEDOM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL; POLICY; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOLOGY; THINKING; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENGLAND; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FACULTY; FEMALE; FREEDOM; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; POLITICS; PUBLIC POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; SCOTLAND; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; THINKING;

EID: 77951659128     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: 14684446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01307.x     Document Type: Article

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