Building Collaborative Relationships for Research
Building collaborative relationships for research offers benefits such as interdisciplinary ideas, expanded scientific horizons, and enhanced funding opportunities. Key strategies include effective communication, clear establishment of project roles, and ensuring personal research agendas are aligned with collaborative work.
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Building Collaborative Relationships for Research Barbara Tewksbury Hamilton College
Collaboration - benefits for the project Compelling ideas are commonly interdisciplinary and require multiple expertise More eyes on a data set result in better interpretation Ideas are vetted by broader group Funding agencies believe in the value of collaboration - funding opportunities are commonly better with collaborative projects Collaboration may be essential in a foreign country
Collaboration benefits for you Expands your scientific horizons; offers experiences in new field areas Provides access to facilities, instrumentation Involves your students in other lab groups, networking for them and you Lights a fire under you it s harder to put things off when you are accountable to your colleagues IT S FUN!!!
Developing a good collaboration Avoid misunderstandings - establish project roles, expectations, intellectual property, authorship order, etc. by agreement at the start, and have it in writing Allow plenty of time to write proposals, abstracts, papers, annual reports everything takes more time working in a group Acknowledge and factor in institutional differences and needs
Developing a good collaboration Communicate! Deliver don t be the one who is always a day late and a dollar short Don t bite off more than you can chew Be professionally generous and don t be stingy with thanks and compliments Stick up for yourself, but do it in a collegial fashion If something gripes you, either let it go or address it don t let it fester
Be sure that the collaboration benefits YOU Don t fall into the trap of a flurry of research activities on a group of projects without a personal research agenda If you collaborate on several projects, be lead on one Make sure that someone can see your own research agenda in the work that you do both on your own and as a collaborator
Finding collaborators People you already know (e.g., your post-doc group or grad school group) Advantages: you know how to work with them, what people s good and bad points are; may provide project continuity Disadvantages: no new perspectives, you may feel locked into a role Advice: don t assume or let others assume be explicit about roles and expectations
Finding collaborators New collaborators Advantages: fresh ideas, broader network, may be easier to come in as an equal Disadvantages: its more work to find people, and you don t know what they will be like to work with Do your homework and ask around what is so-and-so like to work with? What do you like best? What do you like least? Don t assume anything clarify roles and expectations in writing.
Guidelines for collaborations with students Read the sample: What hadn t you thought of before? What aspects did you like? What aspects didn t you like? Other examples: http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorks hops/earlycareer/research/students. html
Task What can you be doing over the next year to set yourself up for future collaborations?
