Weekly (personal) meetings

This section is not about routine meetings that talk about scientific, research, or teaching topics. This is about process: how’s it going, do you have the tools needed, is your process going OK? Not “is work going OK” but “do you have what is needed right now?”

• Meet one-on-one with each junior researcher - once a week(?), at least when they are new.

• Focus on academic process and life, not discussing research. Basically, the time to provide more help in more broad problems.

• Should this be combined with a periodic research discussion? In theory now, but in practice you may not have time to do anything else, and thus you have to.

  • If it is combined, the research discussion will often eventually dominate the whole conversation, making something not very useful.

  • Plus, research discussions should be something that more people can attend, while weekly personal meetings should be private.

• This may also be considered in some sort of periodic “development discussions” which happen once or several times a year.

What you should do

• At least, make sure that your meetings are not only about discussing the scientific side. Bring up the bigger picture sometimes.

• Take your development discussions seriously, but for young researchers they are not often enough.

Kinds of questions to ask

• Are you adapting well?

• Do you have everything that is needed to do your job?

• Is there anyone you would like to work with more? Is there anything that someone else should do differently?

TODO: links to resources