Research Collaboration : A Step-By-step Guide to Success / Annette Bramley and Liz Ogilvie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bramley, Annette, author.

Ogilvie, Elizabeth, author.

Series:

IOP Ebooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interdisciplinary research.

Physical sciences--Research.

Physical sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : IOP Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

A practical approach to support researchers in their collaborations. Demonstrates the potential of collaboration, drawing on real-world experience of facilitating and advising collaborations 'in the wild'. Provides tools and approaches that will help readers develop the skills and behaviours that will foster collaboration within and between disciplines.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

References

Acknowledgements

Author biographies

Annette Bramley

Liz Ogilvie

Chapter 1 The 'what' and 'why' of research collaboration

1.1 Why collaborate in research?

1.2 UCL Ventura: providing continuous positive airway pressure devices for Covid-19

1.3 What is collaboration?

1.4 Collaborations and relationships

1.4.1 Teamwork and collaboration

1.5 Collaboration and co-operation

1.5.1 Collaboration and co-opetition

1.5.2 Collaboration and co-production

1.6 Challenges of co-produced collaborative research

1.6.1 Is collaboration transactional or transformational?

1.6.2 And finally…

1.7 Key learning points-chapter 1

Chapter 2 Get ready: preparing yourself to collaborate

2.1 Mindsets

2.1.1 Proactive and defensive mindsets

2.1.2 Scarcity and abundance mindsets

2.1.3 Curiosity

2.1.4 How much do you know about your own mindset?

2.2 'I should be so lucky'-the role of serendipity and how you can encourage it

2.2.1 Put yourself out there

2.2.2 Show up fully

2.2.3 Be a go-giver rather than a go-taker

2.2.4 Send out a flare

2.2.5 Stay open and invest your attention wisely

2.3 The key communication skills that make collaboration

2.3.1 Why does language matter for successful collaboration?

2.3.2 What is the language of your tribe?

2.3.3 Language as barrier-how we use language to exclude as well as include

2.3.4 Tips for broadening and clarifying your language

2.4 Listening and its role in collaboration

2.4.1 Models of listening

2.4.2 Non-verbal listening

2.4.3 Supporting listening in diverse groups

2.4.4 Asking the right questions-the key to collaboration

2.4.5 Using a soapbox to create a space for better listening

2.5 Key learning points-chapter 2

References.

Chapter 3 Leading by example: preparing your team to collaborate

3.1 Diversity and collaboration

3.1.1 Team research and lone scholarship

3.2 The role of leaders in research collaboration

3.3 Behaviours of people with good leadership skills

3.3.1 Bristol Bridge-a case study in the importance of leadership and shared values

3.4 Leading researcher or collaborative leader?

3.4.1 Connecting people

3.4.2 Attracting diverse talent into your collaboration

3.4.3 Modelling collaboration

3.5 Power dynamics and their impact on collaboration

3.6 Leaders and followers in collaborations

3.7 The i-sense-AHRI collaboration and the importance of leadership

3.8 The 'soft stuff'-psychological safety and why it's important for collaboration

3.8.1 How do I know if I am in a psychologically safe space, or not?

3.9 The importance of 'belonging'

3.10 How to go about creating a psychologically safe atmosphere?

3.11 Key learning points-chapter 3

Chapter 4 Creating a collaborative organisation

4.1 Organisations as complex systems

4.2 Creating a collaborative organisation using the cultural web model

4.2.1 Stories

4.2.2 Rituals and routines

4.2.3 Symbols

4.2.4 Organisational structure

4.2.5 Power structure

4.2.6 Control systems

4.3 Using the cultural web as an analytical tool

4.4 Leading a collaborative organisation

4.4.1 Measuring and incentivising collaboration

4.4.2 Teaching collaborative skills

4.4.3 Does everyone have to be in a collaboration in a collaborative organisation?

4.5 Properties of systems that inhibit collaboration

4.5.1 Incentives that encourage loyalty to sub-organisational goals, e.g. local performance targets (Cultural Web: Control system, stories).

4.5.2 Weak organisation-wide understanding of the organisational goals, e.g. due to breakdown in communication of the goals

perception that these aren't relevant to someone of 'my' status/in 'my' team (Cultural web: stories)

4.5.3 Lack of accountability for collaborative practice (Cultural web: control systems, organisational structure, power structure)

4.5.4 Poor cooperation between organisational units, e.g. between faculties, departments, professional services (Cultural web: rituals and routines, control systems, stories, symbols)

4.5.5 Inadequate or poorly delivered feedback (Cultural web: rituals and routines, control systems, power structures)

4.5.6 Organisational 'design' (Cultural web: organisational structure, control, power structure, symbols)

4.6 Putting the cultural web into practice-real world approaches to creating a collaborative organisation

4.6.1 The impact of creating enabling financial structures and control systems

4.6.2 Creating the drive for multidisciplinary research and collaboration by changing the rituals and providing incentives

4.6.3 Symbols

4.6.4 Organisational structures

4.7 Thinking about collaboration, the cultural web and collaborating with industry

4.8 Some thoughts about the research and innovation system of systems in the UK

4.9 Key learning points-chapter 4

Chapter 5 What's next for research collaboration?

5.1 Impact of Covid-19 and climate change on how we collaborate

5.2 Remote collaboration

5.2.1 Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration

5.3 Increasing inclusion and flattening hierarchies

5.4 Planning remote workshops

5.4.1 Some tips for remote workshops and virtual events

5.5 Engineering serendipity into online collaboration

5.6 Future directions for research collaboration?

5.6.1 The world of hybrid collaboration.

5.6.2 Leading hybrid collaborations

5.6.3 Physical spaces for hybrid collaboration

5.7 Key learning points-chapter 5

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750327268

075032726X

9780750327275

0750327278

OCLC:

1429725118