http://blog.oup.com/2012/08/stonewalling-progress/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2012/08/stonewalling-progress/#comment-289391 Serena Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:30:21 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=26631#comment-289391 Is it reasonable to ask a charity, whose funding and survival depends on its ability to prove that there is a stringent need for its services, to deliver high quality research and to refrain from using sensionalistic terms in order to impress its public (most charities do that to avoid being ignored)? Is the credit crunch and cuts impacting on the quality of reports by charities? Is high quality research, on the other hand something that should be done exclusively by academics, universities being theoretically neutral? If the answer is the latter why has such high quality research not been done yet? Are LGBT issues considered not so important by the academic world? These are just a few question arising while reading this article. Is it reasonable to ask a charity, whose funding and survival depends on its ability to prove that there is a stringent need for its services, to deliver high quality research and to refrain from using sensionalistic terms in order to impress its public (most charities do that to avoid being ignored)?
Is the credit crunch and cuts impacting on the quality of reports by charities?
Is high quality research, on the other hand something that should be done exclusively by academics, universities being theoretically neutral?
If the answer is the latter why has such high quality research not been done yet? Are LGBT issues considered not so important by the academic world?
These are just a few question arising while reading this article.

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