#international research

Working across cultures

Mentoring across the gap: what your Vietnamese partner's students need that you may not provide

An international collaboration usually includes junior researchers on the other side, and the mentoring they get from it is often thinner than anyone intends.

13/09/2026 5 min read

Visas and logistics

Bringing equipment and samples in and out: what to plan for

Fieldwork logistics fail most often at customs, and almost always for reasons that were foreseeable months earlier.

13/09/2026 6 min read

Visas and logistics

Running the collaboration when nobody can travel

Travel budgets get cut, visas get refused, and terms get busy — so most collaborations spend long stretches with no one in the same room.

13/09/2026 5 min read

Finding partners in Vietnam

Assessing whether a group has the capacity you need, without asking awkwardly

Publication records tell you what a group has done, not what it can do next — and the gap between those two is where collaborations fail.

13/09/2026 5 min read