Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research: Beyond Impact

ISBN-13: 9781447331629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str.

Keri Facer; Kate Pahl

Opis

Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organizations beyond their walls. Such collaborations, advocates argue, will provide a host of benefits, from making universities more accountable to improving and developing real world activity. In short, these collaborations will help change the world for the better. This is the theory, and this theory is driving thousands of new research collaborations and partnerships. But as this book reveals, the reality is that these thousands of research collaborators, as well as the funders and institutions that are supporting them, are struggling to articulate the value of their work.

Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research addresses this key challenge head-on. With a particular focus on research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, contributors draw on nine contemporary case studies from fields as diverse as cultural anthropology and international development to explore the tensions that surround the evaluation and assessment of research both generally and in the context of more recent discussions of collaborative research. Accessibly written and featuring a glossary of key terms, traditions, concepts, and resources, this book moves beyond tired, polarized debates about the relative power of scholars and participants to judge the true value of collaborative research and helps develop the methods needed for all to reflect upon, enrich, and challenge their assumptions about the quality of this work.

Spis treści

Introduction ~ Keri Facer and Kate Pahl; Section 1: Understanding legacy in practice; Weighing value: Who decides what counts? ~ Sophie Duncan, Kim Aumann; Evaluating Legacy: The who, what, why, when and where of evaluation for community research ~ Peter Matthews, Janice Astbury, Julie Brown, Laura Brown, Steve Connelly, Dave O’Brien; Implicit values: Uncounted legacies ~ Julian Brigstocke, Elona Hoover, Marie Harder, Paula Graham, Sophia de Sousa, Andy Dearden, Ann Light, Theodore Zamenopoulos, Katerina Alexiou, Gemma Burford, Justine Gaubert, Colin Fosket; Socialising heritage/socialising legacy ~ Martin Bashforth, Mike Benson, Tim Boon, Lianne Brigham, Richard Brigham, Karen Brookfield, Peter Brown, Danny Callaghan, Jean-Phillipe Calvin, Richard Courtney, Kathy Cremin, Paul Furness, Helen Graham, Alex Hale, Paddy Hodgkiss, John Lawson, Rebecca Madgin, Paul Manners, David Robinson, John Stanley, Martin Swan, Jennifer Timothy, Rachael Turner; Performing the legacy of animative and iterative approaches to co-producing knowledge ~ Mihaela Kelemen, Martin Phillips, Deborah James, Sue Moffat; What is the role of artists in interdisciplinary collaborative projects with universities and communities? ~ Hugh Escott, Helen Graham, Kimberley Marwood, Kate Pahl, Steve Pool and Amanda Ravetz; Material legacies: Shaping things and places through heritage ~ Jo Vergunst, Elizabeth Curtis, Oliver Davis, Robert Johnston, Helen Graham and Colin Shepherd; Translation across borders: Connecting the academic and policy communities ~ Steve Connelly, Dave Vanderhoven, Catherine Durose, Peter Matthews, Liz Richardson and Robert Rutherfoord; Culturally mapping legacies of collaborative heritage projects ~ Karen Smyth, Andrew Power and Rik Martin; Section 2: Understanding collaborative research practices: A Lexicon ~ Kate Pahl and Keri Facer; Section 3: Future directions ~ Keri Facer and Kate Pahl.