International funding
Most partner reporting problems are created at the budgeting stage, when nobody checks whether the funder's documentation standard is achievable where the money
Conferences and networks
Funding three of your people to fly out buys three sets of contacts. Co-hosting a workshop there builds them for a whole group — including the students.
Data and research ethics
The consent problems that matter most in Vietnam fieldwork are rarely the ones your home committee asks about.
Data and research ethics
The section most funders treat as compliance is the one that decides whether your partner still has a research programme after your grant ends.
Co-writing and publishing
Offering to write the manuscript because your English is better is a reasonable-sounding decision that quietly transfers control of the paper.
Working across cultures
The signals you rely on to know whether a plan is agreed may not be present — and their absence does not mean what you think it means.
Agreements and authorship
By the time the manuscript exists, the conversation is no longer about principles. It is about a specific paper whose value both sides can already see.
International funding
Most problems with partner budgets are not about the total. They are about who set the figures, and what the partner institution can actually process.
Finding partners in Vietnam
The collaborations that last do not begin with a general invitation. They begin with one specific question both sides want answered.
Data and research ethics
Ethics approval cannot be obtained retroactively, and data rules differ between the two countries. Both have to be settled before collection starts.