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Proposals are invited for collaborative research proposals for fundamental research that will overcome barriers to Marine energy deployment. The remit of this call will be those aspects of marine energy generation technologies, the environmental impacts of the technologies and the socioeconomic aspects of marine energy (including policy) that are holding back the deployment of marine energy.
SUPERGEN marine challenge: accelerating the deployment of marine energy (wave and tidal)
Applications are invited from multidisciplinary research groups representing participating funding countries in areas relating to the three objectives of the call: Generate new knowledge on biological, clinical, behavioural, social and environmental factors Explore comparatively different models, methods, approaches and good practices in societal responses to increased longevity Engage in effective knowledge exchange activities that will assist European and other countries to achieve the goal of increasing healthy life expectancy by 2 years by 2020.
Joint Call for Research Applications active and healthy ageing across the life course
RCUK Sandpit
We select 20-30 people to take part in each sandpit through a call for participants. They come from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, have the right mix of personal attributes, such as willingness to take risks, creativity, and communication skills. Outcomes of sandpits range from a single large research project to several smaller projects, feasibility studies, networking activities, overseas visits and so on.
Terminology!
Multi-disciplinarity is a non-integrative mixture of disciplines in that each discipline retains its methodologies and assumptions without change or development from other disciplines within the multidisciplinary relationship. Within a multi-disciplinary relationship this cooperation "may be mutual and cumulative but not interactive" (Augsburg 2005: 56)
Trans-disciplinarity connotes a research strategy that crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such as research on effective information systems for biomedical research (see bioinformatics), and can refer to concepts or methods that were originally developed by one discipline, but are now used by several others, such as ethnography.
Terminology!
Terminology!
Inter-disciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. Inter-disciplinarity involves researchers, students, and teachers in the goals of connecting and integrating several academic schools of thought, professions, or technologies - along with their specific perspectives - in the pursuit of a common task.
Terminology!
Cross-disciplinarity describes any method, project and research activity that examines a subject outside the scope of its own discipline without cooperation or integration from other relevant disciplines. In cross-disciplinarity, topics are studied using foreign methodologies of unrelated disciplines. Within a cross-disciplinary relationship disciplinary boundaries are crossed but no techniques or ideals are exchanged.
Pragmatic Approach
Adhering solely to quantitative or qualitative assumptions imposes rigid constraints on research Human reasoning is flexible and complex Real world research requires a flexible approach that takes practicalities into account
To summarise
The differences between qualitative and quantitative ways of doing research may not be as distinct in practice as they are in theory Real world research requires flexibility and answers to specific questions From a pragmatic perspective, the research question should drive the choice of research methods Useful and high quality research can be conducted from within a variety of approaches
Seaburn et al (1996)
A culture of collaboration does not just happen. It must be formed and fashioned by may hands
Models of collaboration. New York: Basic Books. p23
6 Cs of Collaboration
Co-production of project vision and aims Collective ownership of shared goals Co-creation project design Clear roles and responsibilities Communication Co-register project products