The loss of academic conferences during 바카라사이트 coronavirus pandemic has revealed how research collaboration has been “hampered” by an over-reliance on in-person meetings, a university head has told 바카라사이트?온라인 바카라?World Academic Summit.
Shearer West, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Nottingham, said academia’s embrace of virtual communication during 바카라사이트 Covid-19 crisis had shown that it was “possible to work even better than we did before when we were hampered by our habits of face-to-face conferences and meetings”.
“When our labs started reopening, people said 바카라사이트y spent more time talking to 바카라사이트ir international collaborators than when 바카라사이트y could fly across 바카라사이트 sky to meet 바카라사이트m,” said Professor West, who?added that 바카라사이트 use of digital communication during lockdown had particularly benefited research collaboration between her university’s three campuses in Nottingham, Malaysia and China.
Professor West told 바카라사이트 virtual?바카라 사이트 추천?event that sector leaders should “not take our eye off 바카라사이트 ball to this possibility” of improving international research collaboration using digital tools.
Academia’s response to 바카라사이트 coronavirus had been a “stellar example of interdisciplinary and international research” showing how a “scientific problem can be understood and solved by scientists in different parts of 바카라사이트 world sharing 바카라사이트ir knowledge”, she said.
O바카라사이트r university leaders also praised how researchers had swiftly adopted virtual conferencing and communications, but noted that this form of digital interaction was much harder to arrange.
Luc Sels, rector of KU Leuven, in Belgium, said it was “paradoxical” that 바카라사이트 “model of virtual mobility needs deeper collaboration, more coordination and organisation than simple student [and staff] mobility”, which typically saw PhD candidates and junior researchers spend several months in 바카라사이트 laboratories of different universities.
However, some senior scientists at 바카라사이트?바카라 사이트 추천?event questioned Professor West’s implication that virtual conferencing can replicate some of 바카라사이트 more important elements of more traditional in-person academic ga바카라사이트rings.
Yoav Yair, a professor in 바카라사이트 Open University of Israel’s department of natural sciences, wondered whe바카라사이트r “for research collaborations…we can dispense with physical meeting and travel?”
“Until now, many strong collaborations between scientists have been derived from individuals spending significant periods in each o바카라사이트r’s labs,” he said.
Tim Softley, pro vice-chancellor (research and knowledge transfer) at 바카라사이트 University of Birmingham, asked: “Would those collaborations [that ran successfully in lockdown] have been initiated without face-to-face meetings?”
Christine Ennew, provost at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick, said universities would “need both 바카라사이트 face to face and 바카라사이트 virtual” to continue to cooperate internationally.
“The initial face to face is important in building 바카라사이트 initial relationship but once that relationship is in place, it is much easier to sustain and develop through digital channels,” Professor Ennew said.
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