Conferences and networks
An invitation from a Vietnamese university is usually worth accepting. A few questions asked early decide whether the trip produces one talk or a working relati
Co-writing and publishing
Papers with partners rarely die from bad reviews. They die because nobody owned the revision and the resubmission window closed.
Working across cultures
Most of a collaboration happens on video calls, and most of those calls are structured in ways that quietly exclude the people on the other side of the time dif
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.
Agreements and authorship
Most collaborations do not end. They go quiet, leaving a dataset and a half-finished manuscript in a state nobody has authority to resolve.
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.
Finding partners in Vietnam
Most enquiries to Vietnamese research groups go unanswered, and the reasons are consistent enough to fix.
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.
Conferences and networks
Most conference contacts go nowhere for a predictable reason: nobody left with a specific next step.