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Keynote presentation for 8th Evidence Based Library and Information Practice in Brisbane 6-8 July 2015 Photos of interviewees supplied by Matt Finch, Kate Davis, Allan Duffy, Professor Geoff Brooks Flickr: VALA Drawings, crochet and supplementary photos by me
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- 1. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 1 WE can not be influencers or advocates for what we do and our value without EVIDENCE.
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- 12. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 12 Dr Matt Finch
- 13. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 13 Zombies of Tullamore @drmattfinch @parkeslibrary
- 14. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 14 Research for an event is the equivalent of researching for a novel. A systematic investigation… @drmattfinch
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- 16. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 16 Research methods are idiosyncratic because of the types of questions asked. Is this steampunk/time travel event going to play? (work) @drmattfinch
- 17. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 17 “If you are going to hire in someone as an outsider, the whole team moves into unexplored territory - it's about techniques to push margins and not repeating what you've done in the past…” @drmattfinch
- 18. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 18 There's a syzygy… and for me a great research moment is when all of those things line up: you see how to connect a cultural theme, a library program, a new technical resource, in a single project. @drmattfinch
- 19. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN Sparkles 19 Wow factor Share outcomes and process so others can adapt and remix Publish Use social media to connect, share, network and research @drmattfinch
- 20. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN Dr Alan Duffy
- 21. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 21 @astroduff Students are working on answers to questions I want to know. If you were investing time with little return then it might be frustrating. …. to be honest these students are better than me so I am on win working with them.
- 22. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 22 @astroduff
- 23. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 23 @astroduff Collaboration with students is a win Time management Ring-fencing your professional and personal life Twitter is the go-to place for astronomy Support network Sparkles
- 24. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 24 @astroduff Continue to be led by the research question and make a positive impact however you might define that in the science field.
- 25. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 25 Kate Davis
- 26. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 26 Collaboration with students is a win @katiedavis Research success is real world impact. An interview for parenting website just as important as high ranking journal article. I have a responsibility to those who participated in my research to share things that I have learnt that can make a difference. Sparkles
- 27. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 27 @katiedavis
- 28. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 28 Collaboration with students is a win @katiedavis Start out with evaluating small projects Just do it take risks Apply for small grants Ask for help Sparkles
- 29. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 29 Professor Geoff Brooks
- 30. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 30 He has strategies in place to make it work kind of. His days are very long. He speaks of ring fencing off different parts of his role. When he is doing workHe has strategies in place to make it work kind of. His days are very long. He speaks of ring fencing off different parts of his role. When he is doing work
- 31. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 31 Have good ideas Find good collaborators Stay up to date Take control Sparkles
- 32. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 32 Belief in yourself can make a difference, if you don’t believe you can… then what are you doing in research?
- 33. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 33 Collaboration with students is a win @katiedavis What about conferences? People, community, connections is what conferences are about. I would like to find my tribe.
- 34. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 34 Flickr VALA
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- 36. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 36 By being evidence-based practitioners we make a difference. We are contributing to valuable body of knowledge by adding diversity and rich sources of evidence. By sharing EBP, we also help others to make better decisions and create better experiences for users. Sparkles
- 37. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 37 Go to: http://kahoot.it
- 38. Swinburne SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN 38 @kimtairi Thank you to @drmattfinch @katiedavis @astroduff Professor Geoff Brooks For bio pics their time and openness
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- Higher education is feeling the squeeze. Within our institutes we are competing with each other for resources which is why EBP is more important that ever!
- Hello. Thank you to Janette for the introduction. I am a big fan of State Library of Queensland and it's wonderful that they are sponsoring this talk. I am happy to share the love of such a wonderful dynamic cultural institution. It’s great to be here. I have learnt so much, been challenged and I am excited about all the research that is being shared. It’s testimony to the revitalisation and the future of our profession. Congratulations to all the presenters. I love coming up to Brisbane. The weekend before the conference I was lucky enough to stay down on the Gold Coast and run in the Gold Coast Half Marathon. I found the run hard going as I was under-prepared but one of the great things about the race is that on everyone's race bib they print your name and when I was struggling in the home straight people were calling out my name going – c'mon Kim you can do it! And they had running motivators who came out and ran with you which is s bit like Virginia's accountability buddies both these things helped get me over the finish line. I have this medal and tshirt to show for it! I am a finisher. I do recommend the Gold Coast Marathon to you all. It’s a beautiful course. <next>
- Thank you for the invite. It's so cold in Melbourne and I'm in a room full of people who value evidence based practice. This makes me very happy. I have a confession to make this is my first International Keynote. I do have another one later this year. It’s actually overseas which I am really excited about as it will be first keynote in New Zealand. You are probably thinking…. hang on aren’t you a kiwi. Well yes I am but although I was born in NZ I have lived in Australia all my adult life; I have dual citizenship so I can vote. But I will always barrack for NZ against Australia in ALL sporting events, even those I know nothing about! Go NZ! I have a few of objectives today: Because it is my first International keynote I would like to in the words of FAT AMY from Pitch Perfect 1 and 2 – CRUSH IT! I have got a poll for later to collect some data but I do have hypothesis that I hope is proven today. <next >
- That poll will show that I totally crushed it and I hope that the keynote will be rated at least 1000 unicorns! Because all keynotes should be rated on a unicorn scale. I am sure you will agree the other keynotes by Virginia and Neil were both high on the very scientific unicorn scale. Just putting it out there. <next>
- Second objective is this that you all go away as evangelists for evidence-based practice. Or at the very least even more enthusiastic about it. I would like you to do this with me now. I am going to share a scenario: Take a deep breath. Breath out slowly! Look around the room. Smile because of the awkwardness. Take a note of the faces and the names Remember the papers that stood out for you so far… These people are your future collaborators, supporters and cheer squad! They will be the future keynotes. You will be. Journals in many different fields not just library science will feature their names, your names. This is the future I want to share with you. <next>
- I going to talk about four conversations I had with researchers – three academics and a freelancer. Informal conversations not a robust piece of research like Virgina Wilson shared with you in her opening keynote. I'm going give with a little bit of context about how I use EBP in my professional life which is mainly to help improve my judgment and make decisions. I was fortunate to catch Cheryl Stenstrom's presentation about how Canadian public library CEOs make decisions and there were some synergies. I would love to see similar research about University Librarians and Directors in this part of the world. I think it would be a fascinating piece of work. I am so fortunate that I work with smart people who also value evidence based practice. By using a combination our tacit knowledge from years of experience of doing things and evidence from a number of different sources. We make informed decisions. EBL is both for me art and science. Koufogiannakis calls EBL the bridge between research and practice. There is an expectation that the teams who work in Swinburne Library take an evidence-based approach to their work. In Libraries we collect a lot of data. But often we don’t use the data tell our stories well or the data is reported in non-engaging ways. Anecdotes are just not enough on their own. We can’t make decisions that will have an impact on our staff, our services and on the communities we serve without evidence. Our knowledge both tacit and explicit combined with other evidence we gather such as user experience, local context and literature reviews, enable us to make better decisions, and tell more convincing stories to our many audiences. And perhaps most importantly those who control our budgets and make decisions about our future, will listen. We cannot be INFLUENCERS or advocates without evidence. I really like that Koufogiannakis has put it all into a lovely model. <next>
- Each of the elements is necessary to make better decisions. Then share your research. There has been a lot about sharing research in this conference. Write up your findings. If you, your team, your manager thinks the research will have broader application outside your local context – share it where appropriate. At Swinburne we are interested in Makerspaces in academic libraries. I mentioned it on Twitter and within a day a colleague from another university had sent me their scoping document and business case for makerspaces in their library. That is the evidence they had prepared, delivered to my email inbox. We don’t have to start from scratch. With some local context and our user experience data…. Ta-da our own scoping document. Collaboration is a wonderful thing! I am really interested in whether you have goals for your EBP. Articles to publish, conferences to attend etc… or particular problems that you want to solve? <next>
- Have you thought of creating your own evidence based manifesto. It would be terrific if during the next hour you start to create your own EBP Manifesto. Then share it with us on Twitter when you have finished it. Have a go at #sketchnoting or drawing it. I have two notebooks with unicorn sticker to give away to two creative sketchnoters… You don't have to be able to draw – sketchnotng is about visually communicating ideas. This manifesto is based on a 2008 article by Ross Todd for school librarians. Your manifesto could include your beliefs, aims, goals about EBP. In Australasia and the UK we know that the imperative to be an EBP that is to research and publish is not about tenure. So why do we do it? There has to be other motivators: better-decision making, contributing to LIS body of knowledge and the profession. Some of the things on this manifesto is share outcomes don’t ask permission; set up a Evidence based portfolio you could put it on the staff intranet or wiki so others can use it too. Dashboard created in Tableau like those shared by Ebony Magnus yesterday in her presentation. Get some professional development. Present workshops etc… set a goal to present a paper at EBLIP9 (Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference) and establish partnerships with others – grow your PLN. What are your intentions for the next 6,12 months or 3 years – today, tomorrow? I would like to apply for some study grants so I can have some time off work to do some in-depth research. Then I wont feel conflicted about trying to fit it all in, which is a fitting segue into why I wanted to talk about role conflict and research. <next>
- As I stated I’m a research practitioner but I also suffer from a something I call PhD envy. I believe it is a real thing! I have toyed with undertaking a PhD a number of times. Firstly: I want to say. Hello my name is Kim but you can call me - Doctor Who <Mumble incoherently> and for someone to say to me Dr WHO! I would level up right there and then. Imagine gold coins falling from the sky just like in the Scott Pilgrim movie! Russell Davies or the BBC if you happen to hear about this talk today… the next Doctor Who should be a woman! It’s time! I get research envy. Having the time to build my knowledge in an area, to be an expert and to contribute meaningfully to a field or endeavor. To solve a wicked problem. Makes me swoon. I don’t have romantic illusions about it (okay maybe I do). My partner has a PhD and I follow a significant number of people who are in various stages of their PhDs. I know it’s a hard slog. In my current role it just isn’t feasible or practical at the moment. I admire University Librarians like Dr Craig Anderson who have completed a PhD while leading a university library. There are those with competing priorities and demanding professional roles who are still able to contribute to; participate in or conduct meaningful research. I wanted to talk to them about how they make it work. I choose four people in my network and asked them nicely if they would participate and be identified. I spoke to Dr Matt Finch, Kate Davis and Swinburne’s Dr Alan Duffy and Professor Geoff Brooks. It was a great opportunity to hang out with a bunch of smart, dedicated researchers. And I talked a lot too maybe too much! Virginia you will be pleased to know it is not just you. Although even for them making it work it is not always easy. They had many useful tips to share. The a-ha moment came for when I realised that they are all involved in research because… they want to help make the world a better place! <next>
- Through out the session there will be sparkly bits. Please tweet because I can’t. But I can tweet by poxy! I have scheduled some but it is not quite the same. Now for a little activity: In pairs I would like you to make a list of all the strategies that you can think of in 5 minutes that help you to be an active research practitioner: for example I have a list of conferences to submit abstracts for. I am sure that in the room there would be many. I will give you 5 minutes There are no silly ideas We can play bingo. Cross off strategies if they get mentioned this morning. How did you go? Can I get an example? Thanks for sharing. <next>
- What is Role Conflict. This is taken from the NSW Government Workcover site. Essentially role conflict occurs when people have multiple, incompatible roles that may overlap with others in the team or organisation. These roles may have a different status. So for some people research is not seen as part of their role but for others it is. Role conflict can contribute to work-related stress – some solutions in this context would be organisational support for EBP; including acknowledging that staff are EB practitioners and allocate time for research as well as their operational roles; providing role clarity and valuing EBP within your organisation. I believe leadership is important. We need to model good practice. At Swinburne we encourage staff to be evidence based practitioners and go out and share what we are doing with others; we have a user experience architect on staff. She is a self-identified research–practitioner. Swinburne have for some time now been interested in gathering evidence from our users to help in our decision-making. If you are interested in this work please Google Dana McKay. M c K A Y (Pronounced McKai). She has published a lot in this area. Now let's met our first researcher: Dr Matt Finch <next slide>
- Dr Finch writes and makes fun things for people to do in museums, libraries, and other public spaces. He is from the UK and currently based there although his work is global. He is working on a top secret project at the moment that he couldn’t share with me. But I am sure it is totally awesome. Many of you may know Matt from his work with libraries and other cultural institutes in this part of the world including Parkes, in rural NSW and Auckland public libraries in NZ. <next>
- Play until 1.36 Here is a little sample of Matt’s work from the ALIA award winning Zombies of Tullamore program. Designed by Matt and Parkes Library, with and for the local community.
- As a freelancer Matt works all the hours possible. Research is 40% of Matt’s professional practice and he says: Sometimes I fantasise about having more hobbies or a different work-life balance, but I appreciate the rewards of the way I live. I don't know if I could change the amount of time I allocate to research, or the way I do it, without rebalancing my whole way of life! Time will tell. He says that research for an event like the zombie’s of Tullamore is the equivalent of researching for a novel or akin to something that a historian or humanities researcher would do. Matt actually has a background in humanities research. It’s a systematic investigation <next>
- If we go back to each of the elements in the Koufogiannakis model. Matt uses a similar methodology. He is also an advocate for action-based research as he was a teacher. Start with a problem, then an intervention. Evaluate the intervention’s impact through iterative cycles. <next>
- He needs to understand the community context; what kinds of activities would work with particular audiences; what is current and on trend and the pedagogy of such an event. Doesn’t want to be ahead of the curve too much or behind it either. There is no point in running a zombie event if zombies aren't a thing anymore! Are we at maximum zombie? There might be a PhD in that! He uses a combination of research techniques including observation, notes, journaling, vast amounts of secondary reading. He needs to convince the local councils and library managers, that the programs will be viable and fun. That they will be a success. <next>
- His work is about pushing past the margins. He says staff support by managers is important if you want it to be a success at running events that engage the public. Staff need power and permission to do things like EBP. He hopes that the work inspires others to remix and use the processes, games and techniques in their own local context. Matt's work also requires collaboration. The people he works with go out and talk about the work and the benefits for the community. They are living, breathing testimonials for the programs and the work. At Parkes Devolved as much as the activities as possible to library staff Tasked with creating their own creative response to the program, at all levels even, library assistants we gave them support Benefit in terms of their own development is huge At Parkes Debbie Gould a library officer and the host of Disability group, took the lead on a developing a program for the Disability group. She based the program on fairground experiences she had as child. She ran the programs, evaluated the impact and then went out a talk about the programs to the local and wider library communities at conferences. Parkes staff also shared the processes more broadly with the sector. <next >
- Matt has a wonderful metaphor for research. It’s about syzygy. A syzygy is where three celestial bodies align. When he was in Australia a friend took him rowing on Lake Burley Griffith in Canberra. There is a place on the lake where you're in a straight line with the War Memorial, Anzac Parade, and old Parliament House. And for Matt a great research moment is when all of those things line up: you see how to connect a cultural theme, a library program, a new technical resource, in a single project. <next>
- These are some of the takeaways from my conversation with Dr Matt Finch. He uses action research – iterative processes to improve make improvement each time he runs a program. With programs that Matt run’s there needs to be a wow factor something that makes the councils or funders look good and shiny! What is your research hook? What will make it stand out? Share not only the outcomes but the process so others can use your work to adapt or remix. Publish in trade journals and academic journal. Matt will often write up his projects in Library Incubator. CILIPS quarterly etc.. The aim to empower others to create games and programs to engage GLAM users. Matt also uses social media to share details, processes with others. To provoke, encourage discussion and discourse about what the work and community capacity building. He uses his blog to talk about more of the detail as it is more immediate when the publishing cycle in a journal can be so so long! <next>
- Next up we have Dr Alan Duffy is a research fellow at Swinburne University, creating model universes within supercomputers to study the growth of galaxies, from the Big Bang to the present day. As well as learning how galaxies form, these simulations let him uncover the nature of the invisible Universe; made up of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. He then tries to explain these discoveries on radio / TV as well as live to all ages from year 2 primary school classes all the way to general audiences in evening lectures. He currently lectures Physics 101 to ~250 undergrads and serves on a number of national bodies including the Time Allocation Committee for all of Australia's radio telescopes and the Diversity Committee of the Astronomical Society of Australia. I also know Alan as a Whovian or a Doctor Who fan and in 2014 he went on the road talking about the science of Doctor Who. <next >
- Dr Duffy’s role is 50% science communicator and the other 50% is research. This year Alan also started teaching undergraduate physics. 50 percent plus 50 percent plus a teaching role. I am not a mathematician. That is more than 100% of Alan’s time and I don’t think he can travel in time although that would be very helpful for him. Just like Hermione in Harry Potter. Alan said that this year own research is on the back burner because easier to spend a spare 40 minutes working with a student that get into the research zone. If I have time my lead projects but student projects taking priority. Students are working on answers to questions I want to know. If you were investing time with little return then it might be frustrating. …. to be honest these students are better than me so I am on win working with them. Dr Duffy definitely has overlapping and multiple roles but rather than them being incompatible most of the time they are compatible. Most! <next>
- His days are very long. This is a typical day for Dr Duffy. This kind of day is probably pretty common for many academics. Gets up early to read, watch seminars, scan social media and prepare for morning TV. Once a week he is on the ABC. Alan speaks of ring fencing off different parts of his life. When he is doing his own research he will turn off social media to focus (phone stays on so the media can contact him) and he doesn’t have wifi at home!!!!! I nearly fell of my seat when he told me this. <next>
- Partnerships with students may be the only way you can get things done and keep publishing. It’s not so important to be the lead author on the paper at this stage of his career but it is important to keep publishing. His partner is also very busy. He did mention that if they have children all this would change. It wouldn’t be sustainable. But being an academic with so much autonomy and flexibility means that it all sort of works out. He has learned to live with less sleep. Dr Duffy some times wonders if he can keep all the balls in the air. But he loves what he does. It’s what keeps those from falling to the ground. He has a great support network and a partner who understands because she is also very busy. <next>
- Alan will continue to search for the answers about the nature of dark matter. By broadening collaboration in an effort to better understand the nature of dark matter, he recently joined the direct detection work at a bottom of a gold mine in Stall which is pretty cool. He advice is to continue to be led by the research question And make a positive impact however you might define that in your field or endeavour. <next>
- Our next researcher is Kate Davis. A writer, thinker & teacher in information studies & social technology, a maker and a tinkerer. Social media enthusiast. Some of you may of attended Kate's workshop on Monday. Many of us know Kate through her work as coordinator for the Masters in Information Studies Program here at QUT and her involvement with ALIA and other conferences. When Kate began her job as an academic she thought this is it I will be doing 40% teaching 40 percent research and then 20% administration or services. The reality however was quite different. This year teaching and administration has taken up 100% of her work time and at the same time she was finishing her PhD thesis. Again Hermione’s Time Turner would be useful for Kate because she really doesn’t have enough hours in her day. There is role conflict and like Alan the thing that was neglected or put on the back-burner was research. Easy to do when you are not working on grant research and the need of students lined up outside your office become more important. Some times Kate can work 14 hour days. Kate like me is an introvert and she finds that days of back to back meetings and administration is an energy vacuum and that at the end of the day there is sometimes nothing left for research – she says she just runs out of THINK. Yet she still managed to rewrite curricula, launch a new degree program, consult on a change management process, be the go-to-person for tech in her department, teach, manage a teaching team. Collaborate on some research projects and yes finish a PhD. It is an amazing feat.<next>
- Despite her very busy professional life. Kate says that she loves teaching and that is the direction her research is now taking. She spends a lot of time talking about teaching practice and would like to find her tribe in the world of educational technology and pedagogy. Talking about her practice, what works what doesn’t. For her because her practice is as now as academic and not a “librarian” she expects that when she does start presenting papers at conferences again it will be about teaching practice. She needs to stay on top of Library and Information Sciences because of her job but her research interests have changed. She has some great advice for those getting started in EBP: <next>
- Advice for those starting out with Research or evidence based practice: How Kate got a start in research and evidence based practice was doing evaluation projects, which is also how I got mine. Like evaluating staff run blog for youth in a public library: Going to literature before I started Talking to people about what I did Designing a program of evaluation for everything I did Evaluation then Publishing Gives you a good grounding for working with different data . She didn’t have much experience in research methodologies or techniques when she began but learnt quickly by doing… and making mistakes. AGAIN THAT COMMON conference theme just do it! <next>
- Takeaways Your research interests will change as Kate’s did but an element of passion is what motivates and keeps us interested and it’s clear that for Kate it is teaching. Start with evaluating small things and then build you skill set and move on to other things Just do it take risks Apply for small grants There is not a lot of literature about LIS research methodologies so ask for help, work with mentor or someone in your own Personal Learning Network. An accountability buddy as Virginia Wilson calls them. Kate has achieved so much. But agrees that the long hours are not sustainable.<next>
- Professor Geoffrey Brooks who is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Future Manufacturing). He co-ordinates research and teaching relating to manufacturing. His area of expertise is in the production and recycling of metals. In the photo he is standing outside a domed room in Swinburne’s new Factory of the Future which has been nick-named the Death Star. <next>
- You will be pleased to know. He doesn’t look anything like Darth Vader under his mask. Professor Brooks is interested in how you can practically help human beings. His research is about clever ways to make metals/steel. As a PVC 20% of his time doing research. He also teaches and supervises PhD students. Over his years of experiences he has become much more efficient at both teaching and research. He says that steel manufacturing is like alchemy – wild and interesting. <next>
- The sparkles from Geoff are really fundamentally the key elements of a successful research career: Have good ideas Find Good collaborators ie good PhD students – while you are helping them they make you cleverer and they are fantastically important people. Don’t spend time with the mediocre which is interesting. So collaborate with people you respect and want to work with. Make an effort to stay up to date with your field which is one of the reasons why EBL is so good. Professor Brooks visits plants 3-4 times a year and runs training for the plants while finding out about what they are doing. Credibility is lost if not a researcher and a practitioner. Get out in the field and engage Need to take control of your own research career <next>
- Building up your research career: Put yourself up for sharp criticism (flipside) Positive & negative Resilence Very competitive What are the ideas are you proudest of… Proudest of students who are doing well in their own careers. Students turning up a CEOs as multinational companies or wining awards for top papers. Theoretical New way of thinking: Bloated droplet theory in steel making; New Process/Practical thing - Research team at CSIRO – research team a new way to make magnesium (15 people)* - Making magnesium at the speed of sound If you get too focused you could stop having new ideas. Need time to think. Creative ideas do not occur when being too busy and multitasking. For Geoff it is about the alchemy of steel manufacturing that more efficient use of world’s resources.
- Other this the conversations covered was the value of conferences: What about conferences? People, community, connections is what conferences are about. A place to find your tribe.
- Conferences All valued conferences as a way of networking, sharing and building your research profile Really concentrate on ideas that excite you Have a plan for what you want to achieve at a conference Get to talk to and see up close really smart people Get involved in organising a conference a chance to curate a program If you can’t get to conferences alternatives include online seminars, live streaming, social media streams (Twitter etc…); unconferences etc… people are looking for alternatives to the big conference experience; more hands on more input into the program; smaller; practitioner-based; less rockstar keynotes! <next>
- Publishing – do you have a publishing strategy Strategic and structured approach to publishing Don’t be obsessed by it but important Papers – focus on the quality in early career Collaborate with others Works with PhD to get the papers up to help establish career
- If role conflict is an issue hopefully there are some strategies that you have found helpful here today. And you can see #allthegoodthings about being an evidence based practitioner. Because we can make a difference, make better decisions. We are contributing to a value body of knowledge. It it is clear to me now that the people I spoke to are all exceptional & inspirational. I hope it inspires you to be continue to be EBP. That if we want to make a difference then we can do so with research. So now to finish off back to my original hypothesis. Here is the poll…. <next>
- I just have one final thing to do and that is the poll. Get out your devices go to: kahoot.it enter the PIN: write number on slide with PEN! <next>
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