Scholar/practitioner research in international development volunteering: benefits, challenges and future opportunities

Organic Collaborative Research Partnership Building: Researchers, Needle and Syringe Program Providers, and People Who Inject Drugs

“…Applying an organic collaborative approach to research partnership building resulted in strong relationships built on shared goals and objectives, mutual gains, and complementary expertise. These are hallmarks of successful researcher-practitioner collaborations [30]. Table 4 presents the role and responsibility assignments for the research collaboration and outcomes.…”

Maximising the potential of academic–practitioner collaborations in international development

“…There are different incentive structures, institutional performance measures and priorities for academic institutions and practitioner organisations that create barriers for academics and practitioners to collaborate (Tiessen et al, 2021).…”

“…There are different incentive structures, institutional performance measures and priorities for academic institutions and practitioner organisations that create barriers for academics and practitioners to collaborate (Tiessen et al, 2021). Academic institutions focus on teaching and publications outputs as performance measures, while practitioner organisations focus on ‘service/programming goals and policy targets’ (Wathen & MacMillan, 2018).…”

Next Generation of knowledge partnerships for global development. Introduction / Prochaine génération de partenariat de savoir pour le développement global. Introduction

“…Not having buy-in from all partners could compromise the research process and the validity of data collected. Tiessen et al (2020) draw on data collected from 40 scholars and practitioners engaged in collaborative research on international volunteering for development (V4D). They present a comprehensive case study, which identifies the benefits and challenges of practitioner-collaboration, identifies the ways in which V4D initiatives have navigated these, and the lessons that can be drawn from such programmes.…”

“…They use their experience to begin to draw a distinction between the terms collaboration and partnership, which they argue are often conflated, but which carry very different assumptions and foundations. As a result, "specific distinctions between models of partnership and collaboration [are needed] in order to parse out attendant implications underlying these differences" (Tiessen et al 2020). It affirms the need to move towards a relationship grounded in the "equality of partnership, geographically-specific perspectives, individual growth opportunities, and negotiating scholar/practitioner hybridity"adding some important additional dimensions and nuances to the notion of partnership in the V4D context (Tiessen et al 2020).…”