Foster meaningful and important meetings research activity, promoting synergies between discipilines.
Facilitate synergy between researchers.
Facilitate synergy between reseachers and disciplines, gain sense of research agenda for meetings, consider the benefits of framing research as “meetings research”
I look forwards to meeting many scientific colleagues and hope to learn new ideas about meetings and like to share my knowledge of the subject. I should discuss with you my research plan concerning the various parliamentary meeting cultures of Europe.
The best that can happen is that the symposium triggers new synergies and joint
research agendas. But even if that doesn’t happen, I think there is a value in being aware of other approaches (and perhaps understanding them a bit better).
Some synergies, spontaneous insights, and surprising connections in our different fields of study, which have intersections but different root literatures in many cases.
Link empirical with normative aspects and draw onclusions for practice.
The unexpected discovery of a benefactor who can cover airfare for those of us coming from overseas.
Having conversations with interesting scholars who have partly overlapping and partly distinctive research agendas to my own.
see connections between different research projects/interests.
Yes to all of the above! Additionally, I would like to promote dialogue with other scientist-practitioners as to how to connect our meetings research more closely with the needs of organizational world which we study, and which is obviously so heavily engaged in meetings.
Meeting researchers studying meetings, learning about their work and, hopefully, fostering joint research agenda.
To avail of an opportunity to learn more about the full spectrum of meetings research taking place, share perspectives from my own work, and build possible collaboration with scholars on future research initiatives.
I am interested in hearing the perspectives of researchers at the summit and learning how or whether you all believe this work should inform shifts in meeting culture.
What is the relationship between group research and meetings research?
Related to that question is the one about how research on real world meetings relates to research on group communication in a laboratory setting (i.e. where certain aspects of the situation are controlled by the researcher and where the group members usually have neither a shard past nor a common future.
Which journals are good outlets for research on meetings? (Operationalization: a journal in which you do not have to justify/ explain why it is interesting to look at meetings but can start with the particular aspect of meetings that you’re looking at)
I think it depends on your specific background and research question at hand. One rather interdisciplinary journal that (frequently) publishes meeting research is “Small Group Research”
Do we need a Journal of Meeting Science?
Important - new meeting for this only?
Yes, we do, and today we may be able to outline a couple of special issues
Where to publish qualitative research on meetings?
Or, less pretentiously, just a “Journal of Meeting Research”
Shall we erect a regular Meeting Journal and a committee to organize the next symposium or ’event’?
What’s next after this symposium?
a special issue publication!
and another symposium next year
agree
yes good idea!
Can we make it open-access? This would benefit practitioners as well.
How do we as practitioners stay current with the best meeting science?