gpestana
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6 years ago Grants for indie researchers:
- Helium grant
- Scuttlebutt grants the grant selection process to improve Scuttlebutt tech/community
- Protocol Labs grant program
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Open gpestana opened 6 years ago
gpestana
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6 years ago Grants for indie researchers:
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The concept of indie researchers seems to be getting popular. I'm stumbling upon grant programs and posts by indie researchers more often - hard to say if it is selective bias or not though.
An indie researcher is someone who invests own resources to answer one or more questions in a scientifically manner. By not being part of any research group/academia, the indie researcher can invest more time into the research itself, instead of the formalities that come with grants from academia and industry - teaching, applying for grants, etc.
The pains of an indie researcher range from lack of facilities/materials (when required) to funding and not being recognised by the research community. Nadia Eghbal [1] also points out validation as a challenge for indie researchers: how to remain sane and focus when there are no other entities (e.g. Standford, NASA), which do not validate the research question/work as valid?
In this thread, let's gather ideas of how to tackle those challenges and possible solutions. I can think of some:
[1] The independent researcher (nadiaeghbal.com) [2] Helium grant [3]Scuttlebutt grants