HOW TO BEAT ISOLATION? FEEDBACK GROUPS FIT THE BILL

Nor are we a standard research group: although we routinely provide contributions to one another's academic works and acknowledge members in our papers, our purpose is to support individual research agendas and career progress by providing rapid, frequent and multiple-stage commentary from a group of respected peers in a safe environment. [...]we can ask questions that we might not raise in our own departments or organizations. Since we formed, members have moved between countries, states and jobs; we have got married, had kids, overcome illnesses and travelled. Rebecca L. Nelson is an associate professor focusing on environmental and natural-resources law at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia.