In developing countries where research funds are none and support is virtually absent.
Dear Prof Peeran,
In my university, to overcome the research funding issue, the students are encourage to publish their research result in national journal or some internatonal journal which come without publication fees. This is an experience approach to increase their academic writing skill in cheaper way. Especially in Computer Science and Informatics, many research didn't need any expensive resources than their student own laptop.
In other hand, to handle the minimum support issue, we are endorsed to perform a group of research consisting some students with similar topic of result. The group is scheduled to perform progress report from their member every week. If only they have any problem regarding their research, then the supervisor will come.
In my humble opinion, this is support our academic research activities, at least with minimum funding and support. I just share my experience in my university, may be your case is different. Thank you
Hi Prof Peeran,
Generally without funding / support are hard to improve research skills & without research skills are hard to obtain funding / support - sounds like the "chicken & egg" analogy.
Think to break this deadlock / vicious cycle, researcher community needs to be innovative / think out of the box (this can be a research by itself) to best use the limited funding / support they have to produce shattering research outcomes or knowledge contribution. This can be done through publishing the research outcomes (like what Arie had mentioned) or competing / demonstrating their research outcomes in symposiums etc.
Once this caught the attention of public eyes, possible governmental funding or large global MNC companies might invest / co-operate with the researcher community / universities. The pour-in funding / support and the research program if is best managed can continuously generate funding for further new research. Moreover, once the research community / universities become famous, they can be hotly / highly demanded by the market to provide consulting works which can generate further funding for new research.
However, capability to retain / source talents, maintaining cohesion & integrity of researchers, protecting Intellectual Properties i.e. the people and process parts can be a great challenge. Hence, experienced personnel need to be sought to manage this accordingly.
Regards,
Fung
Dear Prof Peeran,
To improve research skills when funds are limited :
-1 online research courses .very helpful and help you better in choosing the types of projects that needs minimal funds .
-2 not all of us will be able to pursue research subjects that are interesting to us and we are passionate about .so we have to be realistic and continue doing projects that needs minimal funds if ever .
-3 try always to include your students (undergrad and post grad)this will not only safe you money for research assistants ,but also will enrich your research by new ideas and enthusiasm and will enrich your research skills by mentoring them.
-4 collaboration with other universities
-5 collaboration with national and international agencies that work in your country .
I thank all of You for the replies Arie, Fung and Al-Lawama..Online courses can be of help . But funding remains a problem. And I think that's a major reason why the researchers from developing countries lag behind the others..
https://www.coursera.org/courses?search=Dentistry
Are there programs whereby academics like myself, with Ph.Ds and experience teaching research methods at university level, are able to volunteer to teach research skills at a university in a developing country for a period of time?
Dear Prof Peeran, to expand upon Wendy's comment above, universities with higher research capabilities could partner with those in the developing world to help them build their research capability and capacity. This can be especially useful when the partnership is focused upon a specific theme or challenge in the developing world context. Although it may not be relevant to your medical research, Habitat Partner Universities Initiative could provide a model (http://uni.unhabitat.org/). However, I believe HPU 'thematic Hubs' require further improvement and support to be really effective.
Dear Prof Peeran,
I think research funding issue and support from goverment.
Thanks
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