Request for research collaborations - Some advice for those who seek these collaboration

[Dr Farooq Rathore]

Dear Colleagues

Many requests that are made on this forum are from those who are seeking collaboration and mentorship. I also receive similar requests on my email address. However, I have noticed that many of these requests are vague, incomplete and do not give much information for the mentors and experts to decide if they should volunteer.

I would suggest that the colleagues who are seeking mentorship or looking for collaboration, consider the following points while sending a request

1. Give a brief introduction. It should include your name, department, Institution, City, and Country. It would be nice if you can add a link to your official departmental profile, LinkedIn profile, or ORCID profile.
2. Mention your research background. Are you a novice ( starter), mid-career with some experience, or an experienced researcher looking to expand globally? It would be nice here to have a link to your ResearchGate, Google Scholar, or any other academic website which displays your research interests and work.
3. Be specific and explain what kind of guidance you are seeking. Simply mentioning " I am looking for mentors or collaboration" does not provide any useful information. You can explain that you are seeking mentorship for questionnaire development, understanding a particular research methodology, data analysis, writing manuscript, etc

I feel that this should be the minimum information needed in order for a professional to decide if he/she should collaborate or offer mentorship.

I hope that we see more of well-worded and appropriately written emails on this forum. This will help you in future as well .

Best Regards

Farooq

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[Kennedy Kassaza]

Many thanks Dr Farooq! This is very helpful, indeed I thought the requests didn't seem to be authentic, based on how they were being posted here.

Best regards.

Kennedy Kassaza, 

PhD Trainee, Translational and Genomics Laboratory, 

Department of Microbiology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology.

P.o.Box 1410, Mbarara,

Uganda.

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[Usman Abubakar Haruna]

Dear Dr. Farooq, this well noted, thank you for this

On Sat, 8 May 2021 at 08:07, Dr Farooq Rathore information. 

Kind regards.

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[yusuf abdulhakeem]

Thanks so much for the information

[Mohammed Suhuyini Zakaria]

Dr. Farooq,

Many thanks for your advise this is very helpful.

[Olufemi Martins Adesope]

Dear Dr. Rathore

  Thank you very much for your brief

I feel worried also that we receive these requests the way they come. Meanwhile i remember that Authoraid is an online  mentoring platform where mentors and mentees can be matched. I also remember that mentees can identify mentors from their profiles which is why the platform was established in the first place.

Methinks the prospective mentees should use the appropriate channel rather than inundate personal emails the way they go about it. This is my candid opinion for those who really want to be mentored. It is after that stage that i think they can then reach out individually

Many Thanks 

Prof. O.M. Adesope

Professor of Agricultural Extension 

and Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies

University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

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[Revocatus Kuluchumila]

Well noted sir, I very much concur with your concern. Let us adhere to it. Revocatus 

[Andy Nobes]

Dear members,

 

I would like to commend Dr. Rathore on his excellent suggestions for how to introduce yourself and provide important context when seeking collaborators and mentors.

 

We would recommend following this advice when seeking potential collaborators and mentors on this forum. You might also find these principles fruitful when contacting other members on our online mentoring and collaboration system: https://www.authoraid.info/en/mentoring/search/

 

Best wishes

 

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[Michael Omodo]

Dear Author

Thanks very much for sharing with me this email. My name is Omodo Michael, Senior Laboratory Scientist, based in Microbiology, at National,Animal, Disease Diagnostics and Epidemiology Centre(NADDEC), Ministry of  Agriculture ,Animal Industry and Fisheries,Uganda. I have also just completed my fellowship in antimicrobial resistance in animal health under a one health model, mentored by University of Edinburgh. currently I have applied for a PhD in Microbiology @ Makerere University in Uganda.  My PhD proposal title is Molecular  characterization and quantification of Beta lactamases genes in E.coli, Klebsiella and Bacteriophages in waste waters and abbatiors in the selected districts in Uganda. 

AM  an early career researcher. I published a paper entitled.Rabies in Uganda. Molecular Charaterization,Knowledge,Attitude, Practice in BMCJournal.

The purpose of this communication am looking for support in terms of mentorship in genomic studies , sequencing and serotyping . Because some of my study objectives require such methods to address them. i will looking at antibiotic  reistance genes. My work will be based in the environment .In our Laboratory  we are just building capacity in detection of AMR basically using disk diffusion assay. Thanks 

regards

Michael

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[Michael Omodo]

Dear Author

These are the publications  I have authored and my CV. 

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Senior Laboratory Scientist /Fleming Fund Fellow-One-Health AMR Animal Health @ Univ. of Edinburgh

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[Andy Nobes]

Hi everybody,

There have been a few requests for collaboration on the forum recently, and I’d like to remind everybody of the advice that Dr. Farooq Rathore (see below) gave to us earlier in the year about being specific and providing some context to your requests.

 

Also, it would be great in general if everybody could include a short signature or name/institution details in your messages so we know more about you when we read your message.

Thanks everyone – have a great day!

Andy

 

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Subject: [AuthorAID] Request for research collaborations - Some advice for those who seek these collaboration

 

Dear Colleagues

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[Adamma Shenge]

Dear colleagues,

Thank you very much Andy, for reiterating this. It is very important. Profile of a researcher is considered very necessary in forming sustainable collaborations.

Thank you all.

Juliet A. Shenge, Ph.D, FIMC, CMC

Assistant Professor of Virology

Dominican University Ibadan

 Nigeria

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[VICTOR MAKATA]

Thanks Dr farooq, this advice is indeed priceless and invaluable. As a young researcher this is one i advice i wont forget or abandon in other to get the needed help i would need to grow and develop.

thank you sir.

makata victor . c

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university of nigeria nsukka.

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