The Journey to the Research Bazaar
Who are you, why did you come & most importantly what NEXT GEN DIGI RES SKILLZ do you all want for 2016!?
NB: if you are interested in hosting a #ResBaz event at your University in 2016, please sign up here: ResBaz.edu.au
The conversation will be Tweeted from the @ResBaz Twitter account which will act as a public announcement (PA) system throughout the event (please have the Twitter app on your phone monitoring the #ResBaz hashtag throughout the event)!
On with the data about you!
Just short of 500 researchers filled in the application form to attend ResBaz and here is what you told us. NB: This data will be made open for researchers reuse via a creative commons license (once anonymised). Please join the ResBaz steering committee if you would like to help design next year’s application survey.
Who is here? Well by the numbers…
- 54% are female
- The average age is 33 years young.
- 97% of you are fluent in English, 10% of you are fluent in Mandarin and/or Cantonese.
- 38% of you are in the first or second year of your PhD;
- 20% of you are doing a post-doctoral fellowship;
- 6% of you are early career researchers looking for your first research grant;
- 2% of you are researcher currently funded by research grants (and are *really* busy with very little time to upskill!)
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But which Universities are you all from? Over 40 Universities are represented at the Research Bazaar - the demand was overwhelming and unfortunately more than half had to be turned away :-(
Don’t forget the two people here from Perth!!! I ❤ Perth ;-)
What does your research explore…?! Check out the #MyResearch tag on twitter and re-tweet your research description.
Top 150 commons words used by you in describing your research (alphabetically, excluding grammatical words):
Academic disciplines breakdown at the Research Bazaar:
So how many of you plan on hanging out with your fellow shared subject researchers?! The answer, (based on your answers): not many of you?! Why, because the majority of you “believe in research which is cross-disciplinary”:
Furthermore, you also identified the need to work with people outside your discipline learning new next generation digital research skills:
So we have a dichotomy in the research community! On one hand, you need to work with fellow discipline specific researchers to learn the specific methods of your discipline; while on the other hand, you need to work with researchers outside your discipline to better understand the skills for exploring new digital research skills.
[The research bazaar empowers us to leave our ivory towers and work hand in hand with researchers across-campus!]
And so #ResBaz was born: an effort to bring researchers out of their discipline’s cathedrals and into a common bazaar!
The Research Bazaar is two events in one. The first half of the day is about working with the tools for your disciplines. The second half of the day (and evening!) will be spent building relationships with fellow (cross-disciplinary) next generation digital researchers. Welcome to the Bazaar!
