Conferences and other scientific meetings (especially international ones) are often an expensive pleasure, in particular for researchers without any grants. Is it so necessary to take part in such meetings, and if yes - for what reason?
Hi Oleksandr,
In addition to sharing my researching and hearing/learning about the research efforts of others, I've found conferences to be a great way of meeting others for networking and cooperative purposes. I've authored several journal articles and textbooks with folks that I met at conferences.
Another benefit involves travel. An old saying is that 'travel broadens the mind.' For some of the conference locations I've visited, I've been able to experience new cultures directly. During free hours, I've been able to see exact location where history occurred instead of visualizing from books.
Although my employer doesn't always pay for conferences, I can always write off the costs of conferences as a business expense for tax purposes.
So, for me, I look forward to conferences.
Hope this helps!
--Adrian
Hi Oleksandr,
In addition to sharing my researching and hearing/learning about the research efforts of others, I've found conferences to be a great way of meeting others for networking and cooperative purposes. I've authored several journal articles and textbooks with folks that I met at conferences.
Another benefit involves travel. An old saying is that 'travel broadens the mind.' For some of the conference locations I've visited, I've been able to experience new cultures directly. During free hours, I've been able to see exact location where history occurred instead of visualizing from books.
Although my employer doesn't always pay for conferences, I can always write off the costs of conferences as a business expense for tax purposes.
So, for me, I look forward to conferences.
Hope this helps!
--Adrian
If you have made a good point in your research ideas you will have an audience there, but vice versa is also right, if you are at the beginning of your work it is useful to meet other people and to discuss details of the research field to become part of a network. Reported results of the conference everybody may read later in the conference report but this endures some time und for contacting other people with similar interests on a conference should be useful, although sometimes there is much self-portrayal of groups, institutions and frills, you can waive such add-ons.
It is important to participate in conference, especially for the young researchers.
Conferences support and sustain networks that build on and create new relationships with peers; offers insight into disciplinary development; access to leading thinkers as well as insider information on movement within academic departments and opportunities for possible research collaborations. However effective and self sustaining working networks require maintenance from a diverse membership....
All the students engaged in research must attend and listen all the presentations of maximum number of conferences.
It may be made compulsory for them to attend a minimum number of conferences.
For Senior Researchers, it may be kept optional.
But if the quality of papers are good, everybody may be benefited from conferences..
The conference attending is a good experience for sharing your research and to listen about others research. You can personally interact with worthy researchers/scientist/academicians and thereby you can enhance your knowledge, relation, etc.
It is important but not necessary. A conference offers opportunities to build relationships with other scholars and possibility develop partnerships for future research. However, there are other ways.
I agree with Dr. Amir W. Al-Khafaji opinion, "It is important but not necessary".
In my opinion, all researchers must participate (preferably actively) at least three conferences or congresses or symposia every year. One with a national topics, one with a continental topics and an with intercontinental one.
Sure!! Attending conferences and other academic gatherings helps you develop professionally.
The philosopher Arthur Schoprenhauer had the image to be a typical loner. He wrote his work without attending any conference - and so did many others. But conferences belong to the modern media. Nevertheless there exist wise human, colleagues, today which don't participate at conferences: They are afraid to get acclamation by participants, also it could come from the wrong corner. Who seeks the truth against the mass of "bellievers" (inclusive the Gurus of the discipline) is only irritated by the overwhelming aggreement of others (therefore RG is binding all users with absolutely wrong methods, concerning truth. Scientific Truth is not dependent on acclamation, that's my claim, but in pragmatic orientated science reality happens the contrary. .
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