Visiting and Hosting
Research visits: a two-week visit early prevents two years of misaligned assumptions
Everything you cannot learn from correspondence becomes obvious within three days on site.
#collaboration
Visiting and Hosting
Language and Communication
Working across languages: fluent English does not mean the same meanings arrived
The hardest communication failures happen between people who both speak good English and assume they understood each other.
Finding Partners
Finding a Vietnamese partner: the person listed as director is rarely the person doing the work
Institutional websites show hierarchy. They rarely show who actually runs the research.