HUMI-Suva is a project that is deliberately aimed as being a longitudinal study. The initial goal is to collect data for 5 years. Mainly as a settling programme and ensuring that our partners are in fact on-board with our data collection and so on. We think 5 years is a good goal to have regardless,Continue reading “Longitudinal Studies and this time Period (aka climate change)”
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A HUMI Theory-of-Change
The Healthy Urban Microbiome Initiative (HUMI) is a science-led endeavour to help decision-makers and the public apply the rapidly growing knowledge of environmental microbiomes in ways that might improve the health of communities. Urban communities in particular, but any setting in which healthy microbial exposures are lacking. If you are interested so far, you mightContinue reading “A HUMI Theory-of-Change”
Is it the journey or the destination that counts?
One thing that is apparent to me is helping to set up HUMI-Suva is the expectation of what is important in terms or actually doing the project. I think I have a comment to make on this because although I am involved in this as the ‘education’ component of the venture, I am really trainedContinue reading “Is it the journey or the destination that counts?”
Why is science not taught in schools?
I guess I’ll get the ball rolling with this first blog post. My own education in science is instructive. I’ve gone from whenever the British system is supposed to teach science which was probably about when I was 11 years old, through to an undergraduate programme and beyond. I think I know something about howContinue reading “Why is science not taught in schools?”
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