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Research Strategies

Research Strategies. Kelly A. Shaw University of Richmond. Goals for Research. Stay current Stay connected Stay published / relevant Stay energized. Specific Strategy 1: Read and Reflect. Read a paper/chapter every week Find a buddy to keep you on track

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Research Strategies

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  1. Research Strategies Kelly A. Shaw University of Richmond

  2. Goals for Research • Stay current • Stay connected • Stay published / relevant • Stay energized

  3. Specific Strategy 1:Read and Reflect • Read a paper/chapter every week • Find a buddy to keep you on track • Reflect and write on that paper with you in mind • Do they use a new technique that I can use? • Did they present their work in a way I can adopt? • Did they expose a particular insight or result that supports my work? • Reflect on your writings weekly and monthly

  4. Specific Strategy 2: Get Out Into the World • Attend one major conference a year • Reconnect with existing friends • Use weekly reading to meet new people • Have an elevator talk prepared • Scope out future papers to read • Serve on a PC or grant review panel • Ask your friends to suggest you • Go in person • Publish student research • Create students people want

  5. Specific Strategy 3:Collaborate with at Least 1 Peer* • Someone who does research in a related area • Someone whose primary research is outside of your area but who is physically local *Students are not your peers

  6. Managing Research Collaborations

  7. Determining Your Research Scope • What can you realistically accomplish? • How expansive can your project be? • How much prior knowledge will be needed to accomplish this research? • How many projects can you have going on at once? • What will be valued by your university? • Individual vs. collaborative work • Student research • Primary vs. interdisciplinary vs. pedagogical research

  8. Quantifying Your Available Human Capital • How will you spend your time? • Doing actual research • Managing / interacting with participants • Academic year vs. summer • How much time and effort will your collaborators give? • Other faculty may have limited time • Industry researchers give and demand lots of effort • Students may require training

  9. Create a Mix of Projects • Keep one or two solo projects • Create a collaboration with a researcher in your subarea • Create an interdisciplinary project with someone at your university • Take on a small number of select students to work on collaborations or other projects

  10. Who Should YouCollaborate With? • Personality • Research interests • Immediate career goals • Work habits • Proximity

  11. How Do You Start Peer Collaborations? • How do you find people to work with? • Get out into the world • How do you come with an idea to work on? • Reflection on other people’s research gives you springboard

  12. How Do You Start Peer Collaborations? • How do you make it happen? • Start with specific problem or paper idea • Be proactive in reaching out to people • Be explicit about expectations / desires • Suggestions • Start a collaboration during summer or teaching leave • Go to location of other researcher to get things started • Communicate on regular schedule • Be organized

  13. Collaboration with Peers via Students • Collectively advise collaborator’s graduate student • Weekly phone meetings • Explicit statement of expectations • Train undergraduates to work on small portion of collaborative project • You work as primary adviser • Monthly meetings with remote researcher • Have student work full time over summer

  14. Recruiting Students:Getting the Word Out • Talk about research at admit day sessions and research colloquia • Post research on door and web page • Mention research students in class • Ask colleagues teaching introductory classes for names of good students • Look at admitted student files and approach interesting students

  15. Selecting Students • Trial run to evaluate • Personality • Initiative and passion • Diligence • Ways to get started • Credit during semester • Paid research during semester • Summer research • At end, keep the good for years

  16. How to Start with Young Students Develop Specific Skills Develop Research Skills Read introductory material to area Train them to analyze what they read Teach them how to analyze the results they gather • Learn programming language • Learn how to debug • Learn how to use tools • Learn how to collect results • Learn how to find their own answers

  17. How to Start with Young Students Develop Organizational Skills Develop Understanding of Research Process Walk them through evolution of existing research Solutions expose new problems Discuss different ways to approach problems Finding related work Constructing range of tests/workloads • Pre- and post-meeting emails • What did you expect to do? • What did you accomplish? • What problems did you encounter? • What do you expect to do next week? • Research notebook • Notes about progress • Reflections on reading and results

  18. A Few More Tips for Training Students • Constantly remind them of the big picture and how their work fits in • Make them present their research to others • Be positive!

  19. Funding Your Research

  20. Where to Start • Find out about university funding • Travel and research grants • Ask your colleagues how they got funding and how much • Go to your grants office • Call program officers and ask questions • Ask people for successful proposals • Ask successful researchers to comment on a draft of your proposal

  21. Funding Opportunities • NSF • Career • REU • RUI • ROA • TUES • DARPA • DOE • HHMI • NIH • Sloan Foundation • CRA-W • DREU and CREU • Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship • Packard Foundation • Google Research Awards

  22. Any Questions?

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