The social politics of research collaboration

The social politics of research collaboration / edited by Gabriele Griffin, Katarina Hamberg and Britta Lundgren.

The past two decades have seen an increasing emphasis on large and interdisciplinary research configurations such as research networks, and centers of excellence including those in Social Sciences and Humanities research. Little research has been undertaken, however, to understand how these new larg...

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Other Authors: Griffin, Gabriele, Hamberg, Katarina, Lundgren, Britta
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2013.
Series:Routledge advances in research methods ; 8.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Research > Methodology.
Leadership > Social aspects.
Research teams.
Group work in research.
teams.
REFERENCE > Research.
Group work in research
Leadership > Social aspects
Research teams
Social sciences > Research > Methodology
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; A Question of Silence?; Articulated and Articulating Hierarchies; Dealing with Difference, Cherishing Openness; Exploring the Social Politics of Research Collaboration; Notes; References; Part I: Leading Large Research Structures; 2. Brave New World?: Leading Large Research Structures; Introduction; Research Politics and the Demands for Efficiency, Interdisciplinarity, and Accountability; Gender and Equality in Research Politics.
  • The Challenging Gender Program (CG) 2007-2011Building (On) Collaboration; Strategy-as-Practice; Leading for Excellence; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 3. Managing Differences: The Complexities of Leadership and Leadership Styles in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration; Introduction; The Need for Leadership, and Different Leadership Styles in Research Collaboration; Leadership as a Learnt Phenomenon; Multiple Leadership and Role Distribution in Research Collaboration; The Distribution of Responsibilities among Research Leaders.
  • When Things Go Wrong: Transactional versus Transformational LeadershipAddressing Problems; Solutions: Some Suggestions for Better Research Leadership; Notes; References; Part II: Projects within Projects: Leading Subthemes/Subresearch Projects; 4. "Frontstage" and "Backstage" Managerial and Emotional Labor in a Comparative International Research Project; Introduction; 'Control-Framing': Frontstage Successes versus Backstage Challenges and Possible Inadequacy or Failure; Managing Demands: From Frontstage Expectations to Backstage Realities; Managing Opportunities.
  • Managing Constraints and RisksConclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 5. The Political Implications of Research Collaboration; Introduction; Feminist Ambitions Meet Discursive Silences I; Feminist Ambitions Meet Discursive Silences II; Research Collaboration in a Governmentality Framework: Consequences for Social and Ontological Politics; Notes; References; Part III: Participating in a Large Research Structure; 6. Negotiating with Neoliberal Instrumentalism: The Foreseeable and the Uncontrollable; Introduction; A Pleasant Memory.
  • Being a Man in a Research Group Dominated By Women: The Question of being Situated in a Context and Trying to be MinoritarianAesthetics and Research; Notes; References; Part IV: Being the Junior Researcher; 7. Young Blood: The Social Politics of Research Collaboration from the Perspective of a Young Scholar; Introduction; Paralyzing Dependency, Plain Adaptation, or ...?; Flexible Lives, Flexible Minds?; Research Communities and Forms of Resistance; Notes; References; 8. At the Interstices of Disciplines: Early Career Researchers and Research Collaborations across Boundaries; Introduction.

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