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32 - Building Fruitful Collaborations

from Part V - Tips for a Successful Research Career

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2023

By
Mary G. Carey  and
Wendy M. Brunner
Edited by
Austin Lee Nichols  and
John Edlund
Austin Lee Nichols
Affiliation:
Central European University, Vienna
John Edlund
Affiliation:
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
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Summary

Collaborating on a scientific endeavor can take extra time, work, and intention to ensure that the collaboration is fruitful. However, it also comes with many benefits, such as the building of professional relationships. There are several best practices that can help increase the likelihood that a collaboration will be successful. These include taking time at the beginning of the collaboration to plan how the team will work together. Teams that are characterized by trust, open communication, and shared goals and expectations, among other qualities, are more likely to be successful. Different forms of interdisciplinary research move researchers from a focus on one’s own discipline to increasing integration across other disciplines. Despite the challenges that come with interdisciplinary research, such as navigating differences in discipline-specific practices, such a collaboration can provide the capacity to address scientific problems that are too big for one discipline.

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Scientific CollaborationScientific ProductivityInterdisciplinary ResearchTools of CollaborationBest Practices for CollaborationsCommunity-Based Participatory Research
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The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods and Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Volume 1: Building a Program of Research
 , pp. 695 - 713
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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