No tags yet.
Oaxaca Newton Links Workshop: Career development in an increasingly connected world (17 November 201
The session started with participants searching through newspapers and magazines for differing methods of communication. These were grouped into eight group selected categories:
- Visual
- Technology Based
- Personal
- Paper
- Social Media
- Transport
- Art
- Collective
Initial groupings of communication methods
Participants then used future horizon scanning techniques to look at how these methods of communication could change over the next 10-20 years. The results of this horizon scanning exercise were mapped over the top of the four major Researcher Development Framework (RDF) domains. The resulting list gives an insight of how career development in the future may be impacted by changes in communication.
Engagement, influence and impact:
- Increased online engagement
- Cooperative knowledge building
- Interdisciplinary careers
- Brain linking giving rise to collective thinking
- Decentralisation of Google Scholar
- Further uptake of online education
- Increasingly collaborative platforms between researchers
- A.I. reading papers
- Increasingly virtual meetings
- Reduced paper useage
- Faster communication allowing instant sharing of research worldwide with
- Further reaching research (other researchers and all stakeholders)
- Citizen science as an indicator of research impact
- Easier to make professional connections
- Mainstream use of currently emerging technology (3D printers, IOT, Augmented and virtual reality etc)
- Easier to monitor the uptake and reach of research products
Knowledge and intellectual abilities:
- Availability of new technology to reinforce the theoretical background
- Knowledge implants and faster/flowless learning
- Customised search filters
- Coding as a main language
- Big data visualisation as art
- Recall of knowledge less valuable on the internet
- Growth of open access code to improve analysis
- Loss of critical thinking
- A.I. for data mining
- Use of big data analytics in science
- New forms of presentation
- More creative research products
- Use all virtual information in virtual models
- Easier access to data and information through social media
Personal Effectiveness:
- Use of smartphone apps
- Confidence to face new research
- Collective judgement of effectiveness
- Use of multimedia
- Detrimental to 'less digitized' countries
- Use of bottom up approaches
- Personal data mining
- Increasing need to demonstrate commitment to research
- Social media could lead to a loss of confidence or damage to reputation
- Social media could make you more visible (particularly minorities) and increase your collaborative network
- Poor work life balance due to integration of work and social media
Research governance and organisation:
- Increased efficiency through less meetings
- Crowd sourced feedback
- Crowd-funded research
- Increased networking
- Greater transparency
- Greater objectivity in evaluation of research
- Unknown health risks of new technologies
- More accountability within organisations
- Differing ideas of conduct between cultures
- Real-time modelling with improved visualisation to increase understanding
- Greater emphasis on 'buzz-words'
- Faster evolution of methodologies and research ideas
- Easier access to support and guidance