The Journey to the Research Bazaar (the digital chasm)
What are the next generation digital research skills you and your fellow researchers want to learn? More importantly, what are the skill trends in your subject area so we can get you working together as a community to share skills, i.e. when you run into a problem you can share a coffee and get help from a fellow researcher on campus?
Voilà! Below is a breakdown of all the next-gen-digi-res-skills trends in your discipline (ask yourself: would my research be easier if I had other researchers suing the same skills, which I could consult with on how a tool or data problem can be solved?). Hint: collaborative communites make life easier!
The next generational digital research skills which biomedical researchers want are:
The next generational digital research skills which physical science researchers want are:
The next generational digital research skills which engineering and architecture researchers want are:
The next generational digital research skills which arts and social science researchers want are:
Was the above summary not enough for you? Do you hunger for more data analysis? Join the #ResBaz steering committee to help make this survey even better next year: ResBaz.edu.au
THE DIGITAL RESEARCH CHASM:
“While data is at the core of the problem researchers are facing, the solution to working with that data to reveal solutions is through the tools and techniques which researchers apply; this survey of five-hundred researchers (early career) has shown that there is a growing “digital chasm” of research tools which reach far into the abyss and require the light of skills-training to assure researchers are supported in using next generation digital research skills…”
The real summary of this data is the need for more of it; however, as we all know researchers have very little time to be able to fill out surveys time and time again: the need for a shared event dedicated to training and to collecting survey data is needed.
RECOMMENDATION: Join the Research Bazaar today and help not only survey researchers far and wide so we can keep pace with the rate of change in tools/data, but also commit to helping train researchers in new tools/data for their research. Together we can support researchers in a way we never thought possible: through researching researchers, we can help save them time, money and assure they get to more reproducible solutions faster! Rising tides float all boats…
