The Open Post Grad curriculum

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The Open Post Grad curriculum #6

Open Lingtax opened 5 years ago

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Our disciplines are all different, but we also face some common challenges, moreover we often find that we're learning to manage these on-the-job, why wasn't this part of our training?

If you could design training for postgrad students, what would it cover? Are there abstract domains that should be covered or concrete skills?

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

I was motivated by these threads on peer review, and have started another thread to crowdsource.

I think there's a general need for training in:

Peer review (How to do it and make it helpful to authors and the literature)
Making your work reproducible
Promoting / extending the reach of your work
Project and team management

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Also:

Training in "rigour around ethics and data management" (Fiona Bradley - SORN)

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Basics of Programming and Version control (& how (web) applications work - just a basic understanding (Alexandra Bannach-Brown - BORN / Bond)

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Working with diverse personalities
Project management
Risk management
Influencing people
Research data management (Katie Hannan - AORN / CSIRO)

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Reproducibility
exploratory data analysis
communicating with non academics H/T Steph de Silva

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Working in teams
How to break statistics, not just apply them h/t John Ormerod

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Project management is a complex beast, and vastly different between academic and non-academic contexts (Tseen Khoo and Inger Mewburn). This would also be really useful for MCRs not just ECRs. Inger recommends Project management for the unofficial project manager

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Responsive scheduling, particularly managing scheduling myths

Anne Krook recommends "The Checklist Manifesto"

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Pauline Fritsch also recommends project management, linking a list of resources on this, commenting on the application of this in Switzerland and her positive experiences of the CUSO skills program.

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Berna Zerdeve recommends

Kindness
Honest engagement, and
Ability to listen

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

Ethics in data (h/t Aimee Whitcroft) including issues around web scraping and representativeness.

Lingtax commented 5 years ago

live googledoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E-KUJ0nP4CC7sFtYGou6TE1jhmHEOjdZyWqHdk1nD_o/edit?usp=sharing