Questions tagged [group-dynamics]
Regarding how people relate to each other in groups.
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How to manage being excluded from the lab group?
I started my PhD two years ago in Germany as an international student.
Initially, everything was fine but after half a year all my labmates stopped talking to me. It began with them switching to ...
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I am not getting academic credit for code I have written for my PhD, when it was later used in other research. Should I complain?
During my PhD, I developed a data analysis code. My PI encouraged its development, expecting it to stay within the research group. The code was used in some published papers and gained attention when ...
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How do I save my group project and my mark?
I'm concerned about two members in my Marketing Simulation school group project this year. Let's call them Member A and Member B, respectively, in this. Besides me, there are 5 members in this group.
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What should I do if my group members are uncooperative after a warning?
I'm doing a marketing project with five members (including me), and I was elected to be the group leader. (I also forgot to say that it's a school marketing project)
As part of the project, we made a ...
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Seeking Collaborators for Unpaid AI-HCI Field Research: Strategies and Platforms
Is there a practical approach or platform to find unpaid undergraduate or graduate students interested in collaborating on AI-HCI field research studies? I'm looking for enthusiastic individuals who ...
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How do I form a great relationship with my advisor? [duplicate]
I'm currently doing research work at a university for two years before I begin my doctoral studies. I just arrived here around 3 months ago. From what I've gathered, my advisor is genuinely a very ...
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What to do when someone is doing the same subtopic (originally brought up by me) of our group project as me and not willing to collaborate
Basically, we are in group of four working on a larger project in a graduate seminar. I brought up an idea to approach a subtopic X (abbreviated as X for convenience, but if you are familiar with ...
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If one of your research partners stops working halfway but doesn't withdraw what should you do?
I am about to start a research project with two other people. I was wondering if there are any countermeasures if someone stops working halfway through but doesn't officially withdraw. Do I still have ...
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Does prestige matter for a masters thesis? Need help to choose a thesis
I'm a master student in a very good university in the EU majoring in biomedicine/biology. I'm leaning towards doing a PhD after my masters, but either way eventually I will go into industry (whether I ...
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How usual is it for master students to take part in work that has nothing to do with their thesis?
I'm doing my master's thesis in a research group in Germany (experimental physics). The group is pretty big, there are multiple experimental setups at the moment, that are maintained by different ...
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Was I wrong to tell about communication issues to my supervisor?
I am a PhD student working in Europe in the stem field, and I have recently told my supervisor about an unpleasant email (-reply) which I received from his previous PhD student. He is currently ...
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I am a Masters student and my supervisor has been ignoring my email [duplicate]
I have a group project due next month and I have had to deal with a difficult partner. This is for my dissertation and I have spent the academic year working on it mostly alone with some input from my ...
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What are some tips to improve the output of a study group?
Let's say a group of students decides to study an existing subject X collectively without a professor. What general guidelines should be followed so that the group can make the most out of it?
I am ...
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Recommended ways to arrange celebrations in the lab when getting papers/grants accepted
Whenever we get a grant funded or papers accepted, I congratulate lab members who worked on the project, yet I normally do not organize dinner or parties.
I respect the decision of others to celebrate ...
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A group project was made without me, what should I do?
I'm currently working in a group of two where I and another person is supposed to compose code for an assigment we recived. This worked well in the beginning, as we discussed various solutions and ...
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Signs of toxic behavior in my peer group
I've been experiencing a phenomenon for a couple of months now that I cannot understand. I'm a first year phd student and I'm working on a problem that my advisor has suggested. I've made some ...
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When is it appropriate to publish independently without an advisor? [duplicate]
With pre-preprint servers readily accessible, I'm wondering if it is possible for graduate students to directly publish their work without their advisor. Is this taboo?
If a student conducts ...
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Can I offer to help a collaborator to finish a calculation which he's not having time to finish right now?
I'm a PhD student and I'm collaborating in a project with a more experienced researcher. This is the first time I collaborate with anyone, so I'm new to this. Recently, in the subject we are ...
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How to address group member's poor writing skills
I am a STEM undergrad. Many of my upper division assignments are group reports with a lot of writing (literature reviews, lab reports). A lot of my cohort does not seem to have college level writing ...
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What does it imply if my PhD supervisor is not a referee for my postdoc applications?
I feel that the communication between me and my supervisor is not clear enough to discuss my future career plans with him. Also, while discussing my progress in half-yearly meetings, he expresses ...
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Would it be cheating to say we did things we didn't in teamwork project report?
I am studying an undergrad CS course about agile project management. We are supposed to create a project using agile techniques and document how we did it.
The project is finished, but some people on ...
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Research team writing using different tools
I work on a research team of four people. However, different members use different tools and this makes working together more challenging. I'm wondering if there are any solutions to this problem (...
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Is it Okay to Appear Constantly as Offline but Reply Back Instantly? [closed]
On apps such as Mattermost, there are the following online status symbols:
To be honest, I don't (i) like and (ii) want people to know on which times I'm online, and on which times I'm not. I feel ...
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How would you write to your in-class team, that you are going to drop the class, leaving no hard feelings?
We have a project to do with them but I don't have the time and am not sure if this email is appropriate for them. What do you think? I would greatly appreciate your advice.
Here is what I am thinking ...
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Having team-members split the grade among them by their personal contribution
In a project-based class the submission is in teams of 2 (self-assigned teams).
In most teams, the grade is the same for both members.
However, in some teams, I suspect that most of the work was done ...
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Sharing with research team about being affected by a natural disaster
Is it professional enough to share personal worries with your research team and your supervisor where you are pursuing doctoral studies away from home and your hometown has been affected by a natural ...
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How do I mitigate my group project members plagiarizing off me and taking advantage of me?
In a Statistics related class, Whenever I do a group project, my group members don't know how to do anything as much as I do, and if it's a big group such a 5 person group, one person may help me ...
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One of my group members did not contribute anything and I notified my course lecturer. Did I do the right thing?
So to describe the scenario, here is what happened. We were assigned a group task for business throughout the entire semester. Each of us discussed what topics to cover and came up with an equal ...
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How do you respectfully remove someone from your research group?
Recently, I began my work on an independent research project. A few months ago, while I was writing the research proposal for submission, I talked with a peer of mine who hadn't done independent ...
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How does one avoid bikeshedding in paper reading groups?
We read papers once a week in my group, and I'm additionally part of a graduate class that involves reading multiple papers a week.
I've noticed that, when asked to think about limitations or future ...
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What should I do about a group project in which I did almost everything?
I had a history project at school. There were two other partners besides me. So I did basically 98% of the work, another person did approximately 2% of the work, and the last person did 0%. :( Now we ...
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How can I handle group projects?
I'm a grad student and have been assigned to a group with several other students. This is a semester long group that will work on various projects. From the start, this group has been a disaster. I ...
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Encouraging team-work while discouraging free-riding
I teach several courses for computer science undergrads, including algorithms, programming and game development. In all my courses there are weekly homework assignments. I encourage my students to do ...
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I was graded unfairly on a group project
We had a group project that involved 4 people. 3 of us worked really hard. Personally, I feel I did about 1/2 the work. We had a Viva at the end of the project. I got nervous and did quite badly. When ...
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Supervisor getting another PhD student with the same project?
I just started a PhD supervised by a clinician and a bioinformatician. The bioinformatician informed me they have received funding to get another PhD student to work on the same disease/ broad ...
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How to protect your authorship when trapped in "collaboration"?
Some time ago, my advisor has put me working together with some group colleagues on a very loosely defined theoretical physics project. From the beginning, I didn't like this too much because I felt ...
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Optimal configuration of a research group [closed]
In most of the European Universities I know, research groups are created from the equivalent of Assistant Professors and the Principal Investigator is voted in some sort of election, where there are ...
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Where to find documents/information about research group policies
Due to different problems I have had in my research group (I am the PI) and in order to solve them I have decided to write down in a public document, what is our research group policy.
I considered ...
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How to impress a professor the most? By showing how smart you are or by being a pleasant coworker? [closed]
I am a young grad student, also having the luck to be collaborating a bit with a (rather) big shot. Of course, it would be nice if he gets a good impression of me for the future, as he could probably ...
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Disappointed with my own level of performance in group projects and activities
I'm attending a CDT (Centre for Doctoral Training) course and am very nearly finished with the first year of my DPhil programme. Part of this has involved doing scientific group projects with other ...
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Group Project Dynamics— how to present advanced ideas without offending others?
For my research masters, one graded activity is to undertake a piece of research and present findings.
We collected data and the analysis part was self-assigned to one member and myself. The analysis ...
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Having students grade each other on group projects?
I'm planning to have my students do a group project this semester. What are the pros and cons of having them rate how well their groupmates contributed to the project?
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How much is a PhD worth without publications or a reputation?
I asked this question a few months ago about addressing in-group bullying during my PhD.
How to address in-group bullying without compromising PhD/career?
Things have not improved over the past few ...
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How to address in-group bullying without compromising PhD/career?
I've been bullied by my supervisor and other members of my research group for the past couple of years.
Some of the things which have indicated bullying include snide remarks being made during group ...
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Writing process in a group
I'm doing a PhD in chemistry in a small group of 1 postdoc and 3 other PhDs.
When it comes to writing a manuscript, our advisor leaves for us only marginal part of the work to write such as formulas,...
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Group-work course, part of the group failing [closed]
This question is based around a hypothetical, but realistic, scenario.
The situation revolves around a group-based course in which the main deliverable is a report. Every group member is responsible ...
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Do universities care about bias experienced in group projects?
I am a master's student, and I will complete my master's program soon. During my second year of my MA program, I had to work on a two-semester group project because it was a requirement for the ...
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How to get in situ anonymous global evaluation from students about the works of their peers
My undergraduate students are going to present their group works to the whole class. I would like that their companions globally and anonymously evaluate them, so that each team can in situ get a ...
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How detrimental is a large lab cohort to a graduate students’ success? [duplicate]
A PI I might potentially apply to is planning on making three or so offers. Said PI only has a few students at present which I think is the reason for their doing so.
I worry that I will not get my ...
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Should I do a group project on my own? If so, how?
Recently in one of my courses I have been assigned a task to be done in small groups (of 3 people). It turns out not to be too long (especially with some previous knowledge that I had), so over the ...
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