Thanks for this report! I am wondering if one or more of you at Rethink Priorities would be interested to create blog posts or a full guide on how someone can develop themselves to be a good researcher (enough to get into Rethink Priorities or other EA research organizations)? The blog posts or guide could tackle the following questions:
How does someone figure out if they are a good fit to be a researcher?
How does someone get better at research?
How could other EAs create a peer group of people trying to improve their research skills?
Is it valuable for non-researchers (i.e. EAs who don’t have “research” in their title) to still build research skills? If so, how can they build these skills in a time-efficient way?
I see that there is plenty of interest in that. I have some experience in training early-stage (mathematics) researchers and have thought quite a bit about training myself as a generalist researcher and about the EA research community more generally.
If there are other EAs that can dedicate time to improving their research skills, I’d probably be interested to join such a group where we can learn together and develop (and test) some sort of a curriculum. One thing I had in mind was to run a series of workshops based on Charity Entrepreneurship’s Handbook—there is a lot of content there about different research methodologies.
Thanks for this report! I am wondering if one or more of you at Rethink Priorities would be interested to create blog posts or a full guide on how someone can develop themselves to be a good researcher (enough to get into Rethink Priorities or other EA research organizations)? The blog posts or guide could tackle the following questions:
How does someone figure out if they are a good fit to be a researcher?
How does someone get better at research?
How could other EAs create a peer group of people trying to improve their research skills?
Is it valuable for non-researchers (i.e. EAs who don’t have “research” in their title) to still build research skills? If so, how can they build these skills in a time-efficient way?
I see that there is plenty of interest in that. I have some experience in training early-stage (mathematics) researchers and have thought quite a bit about training myself as a generalist researcher and about the EA research community more generally.
If there are other EAs that can dedicate time to improving their research skills, I’d probably be interested to join such a group where we can learn together and develop (and test) some sort of a curriculum. One thing I had in mind was to run a series of workshops based on Charity Entrepreneurship’s Handbook—there is a lot of content there about different research methodologies.