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Quantifying planning system performance and Australia's housing reform agenda
This Investigative Panel draws on international evidence and experts to understand how planning performance links with housing market efficiency, and how these factors will be affected by the housing reform agenda. The panel drew on experts from the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand to benchmark Australian planning systems and housing outcomes against comparable...
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Careers professionals' involvement with schools: A practical guide for headteachers
This document offers practical guidance for school leaders based on findings from A review of careers professionals' involvement in schools in the UK. The report explored what the best available recent research tells us about successful careers education, information, advice and guidance (CE/IAG) for supporting all school pupils (i.e. 'universal support') and those who are...
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Researchers of tomorrow: the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students
Researchers of Tomorrow is the UK’s largest study to date on the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students (born between 1982 and 1994). JISC and the British Library jointly commissioned the three year study in 2009, which involved 17,000 doctoral students from 70 universities at various stages in the project. Our research findings reveal...
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One culture: computationally intensive research in the humanities and social sciences
This report results from a study of eight international projects that have uncovered previously unimagined correlations between social and historical phenomena through computational analysis of large, complex data sets. How many lifetimes? This question often arose when the authors of this report pondered the extraordinary scale and complexity of research conducted in the Digging into...
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Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications
This report, also known as The Finch Report, recommends that the U.K. embrace the transition to open access, and accelerate the process in a measured way which promotes innovation but also what is most valuable in the research communication ecosystem. The report of the Working Group chaired by Dame Janet Finch recommends a programme of...