A research culture

Published 12 December 07 12:06 PM | robyn.owens 

Since my last post I've been thinking about what would represent a good research culture, at least from my point of view. Here's my list of "Ten Things" - can you think of any to add?

  1. People in the group talk about ideas in their discipline
  2. Group members link ideas from their discipline to ideas in other disciplines
  3. All group members write and publish papers
  4. Group members read each others' papers
  5. Group members disseminate their work regularly through presentations, news media, blogs etc
  6. Group members write grant applications and regularly test their competitiveness externally
  7. Group members read each others' grant applications
  8. All research students and junior staff feel they have a mentor, and all senior staff care about developing the early career researchers
  9. There are regular visitors to the group from all over the world
  10. Everyone's successes are celebrated.
 
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# Andrew.Rate said on December 14, 2007 11:21 AM:

Hi Robyn,

I could definitely get more passionate about research in an environment characterised by your "10 commandments". Maybe the main limiting factor is how much time people perceive that they (we!) have, followed closely by individualistic ambition.

It seems unnecessary to add anything, but I'd like to see disciplines discussing how their research affects teaching as well.

regards, Andrew

# Karen.Hall said on December 14, 2007 2:01 PM:

This isn't a 'thing' in itself, but for the other things to work new group members should be welcomed into the group and inducted into the group research environment.

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About robyn.owens

I started my academic life doing a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics at UWA before going to Oxford to complete an MSc and a DPhil, also in Mathematics. I then spent three years in Paris at l'Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis and going to lots of movies before returning to UWA to work as a research mathematician. I have lectured in Maths and Computer Science at UWA, as well as for short periods at Berkeley, The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, and Prince Songkla University in Thailand. My research has focussed on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape measurement, image understanding, and representation.