CCI Rhd Student Challenge Overview, Kate Morrison

CCI RHD Student ChallengeOverview of results

Kate Morrison, Vulture Street

July 2nd 2009

When & who

- Held June 8th – 24th

- 75 invited to participate- CCI RHD students only

- 32% contributed ideas, comments & votes- above average for ‘ideation’ activities

(typically ~20%)

What happened?

- Generated 17 ideas, 26 comments and 78 votes

- Of participants- >45% only commented or voted- 8% only commented, 37.5% only voted- i.e. jam provides 3 different ways to

contribute

Ideas & comments over time

Mid-point

reminder sent

Votes over time

Mid-point

reminder sent

Top 8 ideas by popularity (ascending)

Rank Net Vote

s

Idea Description Contributed By

4th (joint)

5 Networking Wen Wen

4th (joint)

5 themes, space, and beer

Jaz Choi

4th

(joint)

5 Dedicated budgeting and dedicated staffing

Linda Watterson

Top 8 ideas by popularity (ascending)

Rank Net Vote

s

Idea Description Contributed By

3rd (joint)

6 more hands-on experience to meet professional development needs

Henry Li

3rd (joint)

6 Job Postings for Positions in the CCI network

Krystina Benson

3rd (joint)

6 Let's show off at the CCI conference!

Woitek Konzal

Top 8 ideas by popularity (ascending)

Rank Net Vote

s

Idea Description Contributed By

2nd 10 Learning to play the game from the outset

Mark Ryan

1st 11 Who needs a Doctoral Programme?

Thomas Petzold

....inspired by Sampsung!!

Congratulations Thomas!

Two other special mentions

- Mark Ryan for ‘Learning to play the game from the outset’- A close second with 10 votes

- Krystina Benson for 3 ideas, 4 comments & 14 votes – an outstanding rate of contribution!

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Proportion of ContributionsMost to Least Prolific Participant

Long tail of contributions

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Top 2 participants by volume responsible for 33% of contributions

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Themes for moving forward

Funding &

support

Formal/ structure

d PD

Informal PD

Website & communicat

ionsConferen

ces/colloquia

Formal/structured PD

- Who needs a Doctoral Programme? (Thomas Petzold)

- Learning to play the game from the outset (Mark Ryan)

- More hands-on experience to meet PD needs (Henry Li)

- Mentorship between students and experts (Krystina Benson)

- Research lectureships or postdocs for members (Alex Bradley)

Informal PD

- Networking (Wen Wen)

- Themes, space and beer (Jaz Choi)

- Learn through others’ twists and turns (Elaine Zhao)

Conferences/colloquia

- Let’s show off at the CCI conference (Woitek Konzal)

- Informal doctoral consortium (Sebastian Reiter)

- Creating a space for presenting doctorate and post doctorate research (Krystina Benson)

Website & communications

- A focus on professional development (Alex Bradley)

- More communication between PhD students (Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi)

- Job postings for positions in the CCI network (Krystina Benson)

- Suggestions of a newbie (Kathrin Schmeider)

- Communications of news via email (Sebastian Reiter)

Funding & support

- Dedicated budgeting and dedicated staffing (Linda Watterson)

Next steps (I)

Suggest you establish a Steering Committee comprising RHDs (and possibly ECRs) to determine:

- Realistic priorities amongst the ideas put forward

- Funding requirements & business case(s)- An action plan

Any volunteers?What involvement needed now from

CCI staff?

Next steps (II)

Immediate projects to consider:- CCI RHD online social network (Facebook?

Ning?)- Reading groups- Writing groups (develop co-authored

papers)

These can be initiated at no cost with volunteer effort

Finally.....

We would appreciate your feedback on how to enhance the jam process

Thanks for your attention.... over to Stuart

kate@vulturestreet.net