Scrutinizing the collaboration criterion in research : how do policy ambitions play out in proposals and assessments?
Jonsson, Oskar LU
and Iwarsson, Susanne
LU
(2022)
In Scientometrics
127.
p.4675-4696
- Abstract
Based on a commission by one of the Swedish Research Council, which has high ambitions to strengthen the collaboration between academia and society, this study aimed to reveal how researchers describe the collaboration with partners outside the university in research proposals. Globally, collaboration is advocated to bridge research-practice gaps and address complex societal challenges. This study scrutinizes how the collaboration criterion was operationalized in all research proposals submitted to The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare in 2016. A content analysis of 381 proposals and related assessments was used to identify patterns and categories. Preliminary results were subjected to discussion in a... (More)
Based on a commission by one of the Swedish Research Council, which has high ambitions to strengthen the collaboration between academia and society, this study aimed to reveal how researchers describe the collaboration with partners outside the university in research proposals. Globally, collaboration is advocated to bridge research-practice gaps and address complex societal challenges. This study scrutinizes how the collaboration criterion was operationalized in all research proposals submitted to The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare in 2016. A content analysis of 381 proposals and related assessments was used to identify patterns and categories. Preliminary results were subjected to discussion in a workshop with 34 researchers representing granted proposals in the material, followed by further analysis. Comparisons were made between granted and rejected proposals. The applicants had made diverse interpretations of the collaboration criterion specified in the calls under which the proposals were submitted. The few that described theoretical underpinnings for collaborative approaches used a diversity of concepts but none of them frequently. Collaboration overlapped with other sections in the proposals. There is a need to develop theoretical awareness and conceptual clarity regarding collaboration and embed collaboration in research. In the context studied, collaboration with actors outside the university does not appear to be crucial for funding.
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- Jonsson, Oskar
LU
and Iwarsson, Susanne
LU
- organization
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- 2022
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Citizens science, Collaborative research, Knowledge translation, Research funding, Research policy, User involvement
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- Scientometrics
- volume
- 127
- pages
- 4675 - 4696
- publisher
- Akademiai Kiado
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- scopus:85133422286
- ISSN
- 0138-9130
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11192-022-04428-0
- project
- UserAge: Understanding User Participation in Research on Ageing and Health
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- English
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- yes
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- 6263df6e-90c7-471a-a32a-6b2779008abe
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- 2022-08-30 17:16:01
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