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How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley’s book How Innovation Works (2020) is a mass market book that offers a thematic run down of innovations (in health, energy, transportation, etc). The chapters are mostly brief descriptions, with little on the “so what?” of the innovation processes. When there are very interesting questions, such as simultaneous innovations in distant locations, these […]
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Decolonizing Methodologies
What are the ways in which research approaches and methodologies replicate colonial attitudes and processes? In “Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples” (1999), Linda Tuhiwai Smith makes these ways clear, while also presenting new pathways for research – not simply a decolonization of research, but a reformation of research that is embedded within a broader […]
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Conducting Research in Ethiopia? Read this.
Received ethics approval from your home institution or organization to conduct your research overseas? Great. However, that is insufficient. Authorities in the country where you plan to conduct research have a legal and ethical right to approve the research you plan to conduct in their country. In addition to abiding by legal requirements, researchers ought to […]
Tags: #Ethical Approval #Ethics #Ethiopia #Ethiopian Public Health Institute #Research
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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