An interesting post on how to build those important connections between universities.
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I was listening to a wise old researcher the other day when she said:
International networks are lovely, but it is your national network that will get you funded.
I realised that she was right.
We talk a lot about the importance of building an international network, but we don’t often talk about the importance of building a local network.
We put a lot of time into going to international conferences, looking for opportunities to get out of our own countries, and there are very good reasons for that. International conferences, by their very nature, tend to provide a wider point of view, a better sense of what is going on in a field.
International links provide enormous opportunities for better research, whether it is comparative research across cultures or access to more specialised equipment and facilities. Also, getting outside your own country…
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