Insights into Research Collaboration and Responsibilities
Explore the nuances of research collaboration in Chapter 5, delving into various types of collaborations with funding bodies, commercial actors, multinational projects, and fellow researchers. Understand the importance of clear division of labor, communication, and representation of work in scientific collaborations for successful outcomes.
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Research collaboration Chapter 5 Axel Andersson Andrew Barney George Donoso Magdalena Markovic-Juhlin Tatiana Pertuz
Chapter 5: Research Collaboration Different types of collaboration: Collaboration with funding bodies Collaboration with commercial actors Collaboration in multinational projects Collaboration with fellow researcher
5.2 - Collaboration with fellow researcher Why do we have scientific collaboration? Do things we can t, do things faster or just for the joy of working together What are the problems of working together? Scientific collaborations requires reliabilty! Make the division of labor clear early and continually discuss changes Changes should be shown in publication authorship! Represent the work done clearly Who did what? Who can use what from the work afterwards?
5.3 - Interaction with funding and comissioning bodies Presenting the research to the founding bodies. Describing the project in a way that it will attract the funding bodies, while in reality it is not attractive as presented. If the project is large-scaled it is important to coordinate properly among all project partners, so that everyone is informed about every stage of the project and the progress. If the project is funded by the private company, researcher/s should clearly make agreement on where is their place in the project and what are the benefits to the both.
5.4 - Commercial aspects Growing proportion of Swedish research is paid for external funding. Patents must be secure before large investments. Rules: Conditions for reporting work ongoing. Doctoral thesis is public, therefore open to critics. In an international-collaborative project everybody should be inform of which rules to apply.
5.5 - Responsability for a collaborative project: general In international projects a principal investigator (PI) must be elected, avoiding a high profile researcher who might not who might not be fully available or committed as needed. In large projects with many researchers at different stages in their careers, involving large amounts of equipment, is important to clarify the real management structure of capabilities of those involved in them. Failure of this will be reflected in inefficient research and unpredictable completion times. Public agencies and other funding bodies have a right to expect all researchers entrusted with public funds to make sure they are used in the best possible manner. The special issues of responsibility that can arise in large multinational research projects are discussed in more detail in the next section (5.6)
5.6 - Issues of responsibility in multinational research projects Large projects, big responsiblities? Many countries, many cultures Project coordinator? What is their responsibility? The coordinator hires a person who has misrepresented themselves as experts in the field. The person is unable to properly conduct the research they are hired for, is the coordinator responsible?
5.6 - Issues of responsibility in multinational research projects - continued Moral, legal and soft responsibility of a researcher What are the conditions and extents of responsibility? Negligence The coordinator hires a person who has misrepresented themselves as experts in the field. The person is unable to properly conduct the research they are hired for, is the coordinator responsible? What if the misrepresentation could have been discovered by a more thorough reference check?
