My current model is something like this. #BetterWrongThanVague
It is difficult to make noticeable research contribution. Even small incremental steps can be intimidating and time consuming.
It is hard to motivate oneself to work alone on someone else’s problems. I think that most people probably have their own passions and model of what’s important, and it’s unclear why subquestion 3.5.1 should be the single thing that they focus on. Three of the main motivators that might mitigate that here are recognition for completing the work well and presenting something interesting, better career capital (learning something new or displaying skills) and socializing/partnering.
One thing which I thought about trying which might be related is to take on a small scale research problem and set up an open call to globally collaborate on this. To make it successful, we can set up something formal that some organisation is interested in this result (and better yet, possibly supply a prize—doesn’t have to be monetary) and coordinate with local groups to collect an initial team.
That could be fun and engaging, but I’m not sure how scalable this is and how much impact we can expect from that (which is uncertainty probably worth of testing out). I’ve tried to start a small ALLFED-directed research group locally, as part of our research team, but that also didn’t work out. I think that going global might possibly work though.
My current model is something like this. #BetterWrongThanVague
It is difficult to make noticeable research contribution. Even small incremental steps can be intimidating and time consuming.
It is hard to motivate oneself to work alone on someone else’s problems. I think that most people probably have their own passions and model of what’s important, and it’s unclear why subquestion 3.5.1 should be the single thing that they focus on.
Three of the main motivators that might mitigate that here are recognition for completing the work well and presenting something interesting, better career capital (learning something new or displaying skills) and socializing/partnering.
One thing which I thought about trying which might be related is to take on a small scale research problem and set up an open call to globally collaborate on this. To make it successful, we can set up something formal that some organisation is interested in this result (and better yet, possibly supply a prize—doesn’t have to be monetary) and coordinate with local groups to collect an initial team.
That could be fun and engaging, but I’m not sure how scalable this is and how much impact we can expect from that (which is uncertainty probably worth of testing out). I’ve tried to start a small ALLFED-directed research group locally, as part of our research team, but that also didn’t work out. I think that going global might possibly work though.