Questions tagged [group-dynamics]
Regarding how people relate to each other in groups.
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How can academics find suitable partners for a support group?
I’m a PI with about 25 years of research experience, and I’m interested in forming a small mastermind group (2–4 people) with other senior academics or researchers, a space where we can talk openly ...
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App to manage a research team as a PI
What software do PIs use to manage their research teams? Like to have things such as todo lists for each project each team member is working on, or similar things. But I would like something richer ...
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How best to structure a brainstorming/subject-choosing session for group work
I'm about to teach a two-day assignment on a master's level course in climate science, where students are to collect some data from public repositories and run a simple study. Although the final, ...
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How do I convince older academics to switch to MS Teams rather than using email? [closed]
I'm a postdoc and the most junior member in a multidisciplinary academic project. Currently the team's main form of communication is via email, which has become more and more chaotic recently. It's ...
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Should the progress of Phd Students be transparent among group members?
I am using a weekly report system that every student in my group submit a weekly progress report.
I wonder should this be opened to all group members, or it should be just available between me and the ...
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How to manage being excluded from the lab group?
I started my PhD two years ago in Germany as an international student.
Initially, everything was fine but after half a year all my labmates stopped talking to me. It began with them switching to ...
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I am not getting academic credit for code I have written for my PhD, when it was later used in other research. Should I complain?
During my PhD, I developed a data analysis code. My PI encouraged its development, expecting it to stay within the research group. The code was used in some published papers and gained attention when ...
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How do I save my group project and my mark?
I'm concerned about two members in my Marketing Simulation school group project this year. Let's call them Member A and Member B, respectively, in this. Besides me, there are 5 members in this group.
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What should I do if my group members are uncooperative after a warning?
I'm doing a marketing project with five members (including me), and I was elected to be the group leader. (I also forgot to say that it's a school marketing project)
As part of the project, we made a ...
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Seeking Collaborators for Unpaid AI-HCI Field Research: Strategies and Platforms
Is there a practical approach or platform to find unpaid undergraduate or graduate students interested in collaborating on AI-HCI field research studies? I'm looking for enthusiastic individuals who ...
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How do I form a great relationship with my advisor? [duplicate]
I'm currently doing research work at a university for two years before I begin my doctoral studies. I just arrived here around 3 months ago. From what I've gathered, my advisor is genuinely a very ...
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What to do when someone is doing the same subtopic (originally brought up by me) of our group project as me and not willing to collaborate
Basically, we are in group of four working on a larger project in a graduate seminar. I brought up an idea to approach a subtopic X (abbreviated as X for convenience, but if you are familiar with ...
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If one of your research partners stops working halfway but doesn't withdraw what should you do?
I am about to start a research project with two other people. I was wondering if there are any countermeasures if someone stops working halfway through but doesn't officially withdraw. Do I still have ...
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Does prestige matter for a masters thesis? Need help to choose a thesis
I'm a master student in a very good university in the EU majoring in biomedicine/biology. I'm leaning towards doing a PhD after my masters, but either way eventually I will go into industry (whether I ...
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How usual is it for master students to take part in work that has nothing to do with their thesis?
I'm doing my master's thesis in a research group in Germany (experimental physics). The group is pretty big, there are multiple experimental setups at the moment, that are maintained by different ...
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