http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/207851/Training-outside-the-box.html Feed for Training outside the box en-gb http://vitae.ac.uk 26-Jan-2010 12:52:17 http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/207851/Training-outside-the-box.html I become more astounded my ignorance each week! As a social scientist (which some physical scientists would claim is not science) the opportunities for interdisciplinary training are not very extensive (at least not in my area of economics). I do try to tend regular workshops and "training" seminars on statistical methods and econometric techniques just to keep me on top of the latest developments. But I can see the value in the sort of training you describe, even in my discipline. For example, climate change economics is becoming an important niche area. No doubt such a topic is at the interface of economics, meterology, and other environmental sciences. I can see training being very helpful here. http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/207851/Training-outside-the-box.html http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/207851/Training-outside-the-box.html As I'm quite active in some women in computing organisations, I've been to a few events where there have been talks aimed at people working in industry (with titles like "How to get on in all male teams", "Managing your online brand", and so on). One of the things I've learned from this is that a lot of the problems we talk about vis-a-vis research supervision are actually not research problems but management problems. This might be obvious to some, but it was a surprise to me! http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/207851/Training-outside-the-box.html http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/207851/Training-outside-the-box.html So I'm not the only one experiencing the transition from science to social science then. Focus group training sounds like something I should attend. http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/207851/Training-outside-the-box.html