ABSTRACT
As readers will have noted, despite the authors being often at a very early stage of their career, all of the chapters in this book have presented genuine attempts to discover something. This is actually quite rare, whether it is in masters’ and PhD dissertations or the work of more established academics. Such “real” research is quite easy to spot or recognise in practice, but harder to define beforehand. This makes it difficult to assess how research capacity can best be promoted. What we wanted to illustrate in this book is a kind of replicating apprenticeship or pipeline of researcher development. This has so far involved researchers from every continent, and the example chapters in this book are written by researchers from China, England, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Singapore, and the US. Evidence collated in this book is worldwide, such as in the various structured reviews reported.
