Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research: Beyond Impact
Keri Facer and Kate Pahl
Abstract
This book articulates what it is to do collaborative interdisciplinary research drawing on projects from the UK based Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Connected Communities programme. This book tells stories of the value of collaborative research between universities and communities. It offers a set of resources for people who are interested in doing interdisciplinary research across universities and communities. It provides a lexicon of key ideas that researchers might find useful when approaching this kind of work. The book aims to enhance ways of doing collaborative research in o ... More
This book articulates what it is to do collaborative interdisciplinary research drawing on projects from the UK based Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Connected Communities programme. This book tells stories of the value of collaborative research between universities and communities. It offers a set of resources for people who are interested in doing interdisciplinary research across universities and communities. It provides a lexicon of key ideas that researchers might find useful when approaching this kind of work. The book aims to enhance ways of doing collaborative research in order to improve the ways in which that kind of research is practiced and understood. Nine chapters, based on particular projects, articulate this value in different ways drawing on different research paradigms. Chapters include discussions of tangible and intangible value, an articulation of performing and animation as forms of knowing, explorations of such initiatives as community evaluation, a project on the role of artists in collaborative projects and ways in which tools such as community evaluation, mapping and co-inquiry can aid communities and universities to work together. Chapters also focus on the translation of such research across borders and the legacy of such research within universities and communities. The book ends by mapping the future directions of such research.
Keywords:
collaboration,
interdisciplinary work,
knowledge epistemologies,
arts approaches,
community
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447331605 |
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2017 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447331605.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Keri Facer, editor
University of Bristol
Kate Pahl, editor
University of Sheffield
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