# What is new academia? **URL:** \ **Category:** Academia\ **Tags:** new-academia, independent-scientists, funding, work-environment, work-life-balance\ **Created:** [February 19, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/what-is-new-academia/87 "2019-02-19T11:13:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rebecca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/onscienceandacademia.org/rebecca/32/520_2.png) [@rebecca](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/rebecca)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/what-is-new-academia/87/1 "2019-02-19T11:13:09Z")
I wrote this post a while ago: > **[‘New academia’ — a safe harbour for researchers who love science](https://igdore.medium.com/new-academia-a-safe-harbour-for-researchers-who-love-science-c4baa87c1ebe)** > > By Dr. Rebecca Willén, founder of IGDORE From the post: > Scientific work is not exclusively done at universities. Science is also practised by independent scholars all around the world, with or without a formal doctorate degree. Some are affiliated with independent research institutes such as [Ronin Institute for Independent Scholars](http://ronininstitute.org/), [Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE)](https://igdore.org/) and [CORES Science & Engineering](http://www.coresscience.co.uk/). Others collaborate with friends and colleagues to start their own independent laboratories (e.g. [Walden III](http://slowpen.science/)), networks (e.g. [SENS](http://www.sens.org/)) or small research companies (e.g. [Amber Biology](https://www.amberbiology.com/)). Yet others pursue science without being affiliated to any institute, network or company, which typically also mean that they conduct science without any funding or employment. ---
**Author:** ![dbernt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/onscienceandacademia.org/dbernt/32/789_2.png) [@dbernt](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/dbernt)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/what-is-new-academia/87/2 "2019-02-19T13:50:41Z")
Same as the even older? Before everything got calcified into almost exclusively universities, titles and formal training. From antiquity until early 20th century it seems science and philosophy was a lovely chaos of universities, priests, patrons, amateurs, gentlemen scientists, businesses, teachers, associations, museums and so on. ---
**Author:** ![ruri.olivia.lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@ruri.olivia.lee](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/ruri.olivia.lee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/what-is-new-academia/87/3 "2019-03-27T08:06:37Z")
It’s a good article giving me an insight of the context behind this beautiful coworking space. Now I understand why this space is designed for the researchers and students to focus on their own work with sincerity. I could find that the term ‘Digital Nomadism’ and ‘Coworking Space’ can be applied to researchers and students in terms of ‘Openess, Independence, Autonomy, Side Projects etc’ I would love to introduce this special coworking space to researchers and students in Korea. ---
**Author:** ![florence.cotel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@florence.cotel](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/florence.cotel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/what-is-new-academia/87/4 "2019-04-01T08:06:16Z")
It’s really important to enable researchers to do research outside walls of universities and help traditional academics see there are alternatives to a tenure track! I see the “New academia” as a great way to acknowledge that anybody can have great ideas, not only senior academics, which is really powerful to empower new researchers, give them self-confidence and, represents a support to their work. What type of agreement is there between the independent scholar and hosting institutes such as IGDORE or RONIN?