We perform collaborative research among the members which does not bias creative minds' research.
OAR members are from various different background and we combine our intellects to solve and develop advanced research problems.
The venue of the Winter Research Workshop 2017-18 will be in KMS library, Melur village, Kerala and
The responsibility of the organizers are mentioned in the call. If you have any specific questions please do not hesitate to ask. The primary job will be leading one or two small projects with a single or group of students. The secondary work will be to organise the workshop and support the concept of OAR.
The volunteers are not expected to bear any expenses. However, you are welcome to support one or two students' stipend. The current organisers are contributing as much as they can. However, we are expecting to receive funding from several places based on our previous experiences.
The benefits of the volunteers are:
1. Enhancing teaching and leading skills. At the moment, in India, PhD and postdocs are not teaching much as well as not supervising any bachelor or masters thesis work. Hence, the academic system in India is not recycling its own resources which is why the teachers in the schools, colleges, and universities are not up to the mark.
2. The support for fundamental research and creativity is limited. We are trying to build a platform where research will be open and in future the platform has a potential to act like a world class autonomous research institutes which will not have any competitive entrance examination scheme. The volunteers will be a part of this journey.
3. At our age, we may not be able ask many fundamental questions as lucidly as a kid does. So, interacting with them will enable us to find several important research questions and solving them together with the kids will be another way of learning creative thinking for us in advanced level.
4. If one cannot explain things that means he/she does not understand the topic. Sometime it is also true many concepts gets cleared for us when we are explaining to someone else who is not from our field. OAR brings the opportunity to reach youngsters where teaching them will increase our science communication. Today, the world has a very low number of good academic communicators which is why we see so many garbage academic publications and proposals.
5. At the end, OAR brings the concept of recycling knowledge which will enable us to be good researcher who can ask the right questions. This is a significant quality needed for any researcher. The questions raised during the workshops may or may not be solved by the end of the workshop. Our interest is to create a Wikipedia like platform but for different purpose. The OAR platform will publish their questions and their solutions in form of a paper which will be corrected and modified over the time wherever required by an open audience of researchers.