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Description
Astronomical instrumentation projects are often very international, with team members coming from different cultural backgrounds, being proficient in multiple different languages, working across different time zones, and frequently having a different (professional) understanding of the same – often English – working language.
In this talk, I would like to share my personal and professional experiences from working in the WEAVE Project over the past (nearly) 10 years, as someone with an astronomy-research-based background that has supported a pan-European project with 600+ members, through facilitating communication within and between the multiple nodes of the project, and helping to coordinate information flow between the two main halves of the project – the instrument-building project team, and the survey-led science team. I intend to open a discussion on the need for funding organisations, universities and research institutes, and projects to collectively acknowledge, appreciate and anticipate the need for such large projects to have properly financed project-support roles, and that these are valued as legitimate career-path options for those with the relevant skills, knowledge and expertise who also have a passion for building up, coordinating, and maintaining healthy communication (channels) within a project that crosses many borders.
| Talk category | Instrumentation (contact wijnen@strw.leidenuniv.nl) |
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| Preference for a talk or poster | Talk |
