Good question! Please enjoy me not answering it and instead lightly adapting an email I sent to someone who was interested in running an EA-aligned research training program, since you or people interested in your question might find this a bit useful. (Hopefully someone else from RP will more directly answer the question.)
“Cool that you’re interested in doing this kind of project :)
I’d encourage you to join the EA Research Training Program Slack workspace and share your plans and key uncertainties there to get input from other people who are organizing or hoping to organize research training programs. [This is open only to people organizing or seriously considering organizing such programs; readers should message me if they’d like a link.]
You could also perhaps look for people who’ve introduced themselves there and who it might be especially useful to talk to.
Resources from one of the pinned posts in that Slack:
See here for a brief discussion of why I use the term “research training programs” and roughly what I see as being in-scope for that term. (But I’m open to alternative terms or scopes.)
See here for a collection of EA Forum posts relevant to research training programs.
See here for a spreadsheet listing all EA-aligned research training programs I’m aware of.
I’d also encourage you to seriously consider applying for funding, doing so sooner than you might by default, and maybe even applying for a small amount of funding to pay for your time further planning this stuff (if that’d be helpful). Basically, I think people underestimate the extent to which EA Funds are ok with unpolished applications, with discussing and advising on ideas with applicants after the application is submitted, and with providing “planning grants”. (I haven’t read anything about your plans and so am not saying I’m confident you’ll get funding, but applying is very often worthwhile in expectation.) More info here:
[...] …caveat to all of that is that I know very little about your specific plans—this is basically all just the stuff I think it’s generically worth me mentioning to people interested in EA running research training programs.
Best of luck with the planning, and feel free to send through specific questions where I could perhaps be useful :)
Good question! Please enjoy me not answering it and instead lightly adapting an email I sent to someone who was interested in running an EA-aligned research training program, since you or people interested in your question might find this a bit useful. (Hopefully someone else from RP will more directly answer the question.)
“Cool that you’re interested in doing this kind of project :)
I’d encourage you to join the EA Research Training Program Slack workspace and share your plans and key uncertainties there to get input from other people who are organizing or hoping to organize research training programs. [This is open only to people organizing or seriously considering organizing such programs; readers should message me if they’d like a link.]
You could also perhaps look for people who’ve introduced themselves there and who it might be especially useful to talk to.
Resources from one of the pinned posts in that Slack:
You might also find these things useful:
Michael’s quick notes on RP’s internship, RP’s processes, how RP picks research projects, etc. [for SERI etc.]
Collection of collections of resources relevant to (research) management, mentorship, training, etc.
Improving the EA-aligned research pipeline
I’d also encourage you to seriously consider applying for funding, doing so sooner than you might by default, and maybe even applying for a small amount of funding to pay for your time further planning this stuff (if that’d be helpful). Basically, I think people underestimate the extent to which EA Funds are ok with unpolished applications, with discussing and advising on ideas with applicants after the application is submitted, and with providing “planning grants”. (I haven’t read anything about your plans and so am not saying I’m confident you’ll get funding, but applying is very often worthwhile in expectation.) More info here:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DqwxrdyQxcMQ8P2rD/list-of-ea-funding-opportunities
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4tsWDEXkhincu7HLb/things-i-often-tell-people-about-applying-to-ea-funds
[...] …caveat to all of that is that I know very little about your specific plans—this is basically all just the stuff I think it’s generically worth me mentioning to people interested in EA running research training programs.
Best of luck with the planning, and feel free to send through specific questions where I could perhaps be useful :)
Best,
Michael”