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Fransman, Jude; Hall, Budd; Hayman, Rachel; Narayanan, Pradeep; Newman, Kate and Tandon, Rajesh
(2021).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2021.1872507
Abstract
While there is a burgeoning literature on the benefits of research collaboration for development, it tends to promote the idea of the ‘partnership’ as a bounded site in which interventions to improve collaborative practice can be made. This article draws on complexity theory and systems thinking to argue that such an assumption is problematic, divorcing collaboration from wider systems of research and practice. Instead, a systemic framework for understanding and evaluating collaboration is proposed. This framework is used to reflect on a set of principles for fair and equitable research collaboration that emerged from a programme of strategic research and capacity strengthening conducted by the Rethinking Research Collaborative (RRC) for the United Kingdom (UK)’s primary research funder: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The article concludes that a systemic conceptualisation of collaboration is more responsive than a ‘partnership’ approach, both to the principles of fairness and equity and also to uncertain futures.
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- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 2158-9100
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Understanding and Improving Fair and Equitable Research Partnerships in Response to Global Challenges Not Set EPSRC - Keywords
- Research partnerships; research collaboration; higher education policy; research funding; systems thinking; complexity theory
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences
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Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD) - Copyright Holders
- © 2021 Jude Fransman, © 2021 Budd Hall, © 2021 Rachel Hayman, © 2021 Pradeep Narayanan, © 2021 Kate Newman, © 2021 Rajesh Tandon
- Depositing User
- Jude Fransman