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By: Lea

Lea — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:27:17 +0000

I hope your conference went well! sounds sooooooo interesting! Will the outcomes or the papers be publsihed somewhere? How was the “research methods round table” – I’d be very interested in this, is there anything available to read about? You do some great work here! greetings, Lea

By: Aleksandra

Aleksandra — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:10:22 +0000

Hi again,

the summary and my impressions from the Pecha Kucha speed presentation at AAA is now at:
http://www.antropologi.info/blog/anthropology/2010/pecha-kucha

By: george

george — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:11:40 +0000

I’d also like to hear how it works out…

On a slightly related topic…always thought it would be interesting to develop an Amazon clone that lets folks do a form of distributed hypothesis testing by posting a research scenario (research done or contemplated) that others could (1) rank; (2) comment on; or (3) replicate.

Advantages:

- opportunity to bring scattered researchers together in community
- opportunity for students with research topics to attempt replication (with some obvious perils and pitfalls as well)
- opportunity for the research community to review and comment on research proposals, rank merit, suggest modifications
- opportunity to find similar interests and projects
- opportunity for those who are experienced in the field to do distance mentoring
- helps dissipate the silo effect

By: Rachel Brezis

Rachel Brezis — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:38:01 +0000

Looking forward to the discussion!

By: Craig H

Craig H — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:31:16 +0000

“…the focus is on research that has already been conducted.”

This is an interesting statement because it seems to imply that research is not an ongoing process but carried out in distinct “chunks” with a beginning and end. I think many researchers who have some long term research program never see their research as “mostly done” but rather as a series of steps in a (long) process. So, it seems the issue lies more in the style of presentations commonly given at meetings, especially the lone “Discussion” slide that is rushed through at teh end of a talk.

An alternative to the speed dating approach might be that all presenters are alloted their standard 20 minutes, but that they are obligated to discuss three (or more) alternative “next steps” that they could envision taking their research program. If one can’t envision any next steps, then this probably says something about the importance of the issue. But, for those who can, then a large web of future research pathways would emerge.

Please do post a report on how the speed-dating version worked.

By: Aleksandra Bartoszko

Aleksandra Bartoszko — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:24:00 +0000

I believe more and more people are interested in this form of presentation. We organize speed panel at AAA in December. We use the Pecha Kuch format (6,40 min and 20 images). So if anybody there and would like to see how it works (we hope and belive it will) please welcome.

By: ArchAsa

ArchAsa — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:13:56 +0000

Sounds like a good idea if you can get enough people to go along with this novelty (as we all know, it’s not easy to change ones practice). One problem with the 15-20 min presentation in my experience is that people are so intent to forestall any criticism that they spend far too much time to present the backgound and all they’ve read and done. The results and interpretations and conclusions are usually crammed into a panicked 2 minutes at the end as the time has run out. The question time is usually useless, the best one can hope for is that someone will approach you at the pub later to offer some insight (if they can find you again).

On that topic, I think you miswrote a sentence above. I assume you mean that they CAN drop you a note, not that they can’t…