Briefing paper: New Directions in Collaborative Research
Published: 24 November 2022
How can collaborative research involving diverse partnerships between communities and researchers support sustainable, embodied, and transformative legacies of collective knowledge? This briefing paper summarises key learnings and discussion from a recent event with keynotes from UKRI, University of Glasgow, University of Surrey, and the Crichton Trust.
This report builds on the learnings from the event: (October 2022).
The event explored how collaborative research involving diverse partnerships between communities and researchers can support sustainable, embodied, and transformative legacies of collective knowledge, or what Facer and Enright (2016) refer to as ‘living knowledge.’ This challenge is raising questions in defining future research areas and in how we undertake research.
Such a future, which values wellbeing and sustainability at its core, is knowledge-intensive and requires critical reflections on how we – as researchers, stakeholders, and citizens – build knowledge that is meaningful and worthwhile for societies, communities, and individuals. A ‘collective knowledge economy’ of collaboratively produced, accessible, and beneficial knowledge is not straightforward. This report shares the main insights from keynote speakers and highlights from group discussions around problems and opportunities in collaborative research.
You can read the full report here: New directions in collaborative research final report
The New Directions workshop was organised and hosted by the Digital Society and Economy Interdisicplinary Research Theme, supported by the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
First published: 24 November 2022
Authors:
(School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Keynote speakers:
Karen Salt (Deputy Director or R&D Culture and Environment, UK Research and Innovation)
Sara Carter (Vice-Principal and Head of College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh (Research Fellow in Design Research, University of Surrey)
Jennifer Challinor (Head of Research and Development at The Crichton Trust)