Collaborative Processes in Transdisciplinary Research

Misra, Shalini; Hall, Kara L.; Feng, Annie; Stipelman, Brooke A.; Stokols, Daniel

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-6330-7_8

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“…Stokols (2014Stokols ( , 2018 conceptualized a transdisciplinary orientation comprising transdisciplinary attitudes, values, beliefs, skills, knowledge, and behaviors. In addition to Augsburg's (2014) array of ideas and those noted above, Stokols added several more traits (see also Misra et al, 2015). To wit, transdisciplinary individuals are tolerant of unfamiliarity, trusting that it leads to something new.…”

Section: Transdisciplinary Individual Traits and Orientationmentioning

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Shifting Paradigms: Bringing Transdisciplinarity into the Light

McGregor

2023

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Addressing complex societal problems requires the collaboration of diverse academic and non-academic partners ideally through transdisciplinarity. Most academic faculty members are couched in their disciplinary mind set with more recent transitions to multi- and interdisciplinarity. Transdisciplinary thinking is the new kid on the block. Switching through mono, multi, and inter to transdisciplinarity will require a paradigm shift. Each is discussed in this paper, so people can more readily find themselves, clarify the nature of their work, and appreciate the magnitude of change required if they shift paradigms. The paper then (a) identifies traits of a transdisciplinary individual who can employ a transdisciplinary orientation, (b) addresses paradigm shifts at the collective and individual levels, (c) discusses how to deal with natural resistance to losing one’s familiar way of thinking and (d) concludes with touchstones and safety-nets that encourage people to take the leap of faith required to embrace transdisciplinarity.

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Section: Transdisciplinary Individual Traits and Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shifting Paradigms: Bringing Transdisciplinarity into the Light

McGregor

2023

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“…This shows that communication at the cluster level can certainly also be selective and take place according to situational requirements. In this way, a paralysis of communication can be avoided (Misra et al, 2011) and efficient cooperation between the PIs can be fostered (Anderson et al, 2000).…”

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Coopetition between frenemies–interrelations and effects of seven collaboration problems in research clusters

Hückstädt¹

2022

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Principal Investigators in research clusters find themselves in a Janus-faced situation: if they want to achieve their common research goals, fulfil their overarching function of integrative knowledge production and thus secure the continuity of their collaboration, they are required to cooperate closely. At the same time, they compete with each other for scientific recognition or third-party funding. Taking this as a background, the article explores the effects and interrelationships of seven collaboration problems that arise in the context of the tension between cooperation and competition. Based on the state of research, a club-theoretical heuristic is developed that captures the effects and interrelationships of seven collaboration problems. The specified hypothesis model is tested with the help of a structural equation model using data from a large-scale online survey of PIs and spokespeople involved in research collaborations. The data analysis confirms the assumption that especially conflictual personal relationships between the partners in a research collaboration (relationship problems) form a central node in the network of collaboration problems: A lack of reciprocity of costs and benefits (fairness problems) as well as the self-interested behaviour of the spokesperson of a research cluster (management problems) promote relationship problems between the partners in a research team. Likewise, relationship problems in turn promote an erosion of communication between collaboration partners (communication problems), of goal progress evaluation (certainty problems), of cross-disciplinary exchange (difference problems) and of partners’ commitment to the common goals of the research collaboration (goal commitment problems). The structural equation model thus supports the widely held, but by no means trivial view in cooperation research that trusting and fair interaction between cooperating PIs in a research cluster is a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for their joint success.

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“…Research suggests that interdisciplinary researchers tend to be motivated to contribute to the advancement of a "common good, " characterized by attitudes of tolerance and reflexivity and by skills including team management and facilitation, among other attributes (Guimarães et al, 2019). Another important individual capacity is the extent and quality of team members' past collaborative experiences with each other and their experience with collaboration in general (Misra et al, 2011). Research is showing that individual collaborative capacities are not simply intuitive, but rather must be carefully developed through processes of collaborative learning (Freeth and Caniglia, 2020).…”

Section: Enablers Of Interdisciplinary Research: Current Knowledge Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are a number of areas where supportive institutional practices can impact the productivity and effectiveness of interdisciplinary research (Andrews et al, 2020). Examples include division of overhead between departments and provision of administrative support for the increased coordination that is required for conducting multi-departmental or multi-institutional research (Misra et al, 2011). Cundill et al (2019b) also identify the alignment of institutional cultures as critical for supporting interdisciplinary knowledge production.…”

Section: Enablers Of Interdisciplinary Research: Current Knowledge Anmentioning

confidence: 99%