From Serendipitous Networking to a Submitted Report
Sometimes being in academia feels like being cut off from the real world. Especially post-graduate students and early career researchers may feel like they are living in an academic bubble. This impression cannot be further from reality. Our role as #DataImpactFellows is to highlight how our research can, in fact, contribute to society. Engaging in collaborations with each other and with institutions and stakeholders is an excellent way to change the world for the better.
Two #DataImpactFellows, Claudia and Esmeralda, are china rcs data writing a series of blog posts aimed at giving examples of best practices of collaboration for achieving impact. They will share some stories in which the academic bubble has been broken and in which people benefited by the consequences.
Everyone can achieve impact, as Esmeralda explores here.
From Serendipitous Networking to a Submitted Report
I am analysing social media behaviour for my PhD. Although my PhD project is in the field of political science, it requires me to use a ton of different methods, borrowed from linguistics, communication science, computer science and more.
After presenting my research to a lab of computer scientists here at the university, to hopefully receive some insights and feedback, we went for lunch. There, as luck would have it, I was introduced to the CEO of Yoop, with whom I ended up collaborating on a submission of evidence for a Committee report.