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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science
The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in the scale and complexity of scientific research. The growing scale of science has been accompanied by a shift toward collaborative research, referred to as \"team science.\" Scientific research is increasingly conducted by small teams and larger groups rather than individual investigators, but the challenges of collaboration can slow these teams' progress in achieving their scientific goals. How does a team-based approach work, and how can universities and research institutions support teams?
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science synthesizes and integrates the available research to provide guidance on assembling the science team; leadership, education and professional development for science teams and groups. It also examines institutional and organizational structures and policies to support science teams and identifies areas where further research is needed to help science teams and groups achieve their scientific and translational goals. This report offers major public policy recommendations for science research agencies and policymakers, as well as recommendations for individual scientists, disciplinary associations, and research universities. Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science will be of interest to university research administrators, team science leaders, science faculty, and graduate and postdoctoral students.
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Scientific collaboration : strategies for successful research teams
A narrative guide to help scientists improve their collaboration techniques and build trusting relationships with their research teams.The days of scientists conducting solitary inquiries in isolated labs are effectively over, with most researchers instead collaborating in cross-functional teams. In addition to mastering the technical skills necessary in their respective fields, scientists must now learn strategies for better communication and relationship building to succeed in reaching increasingly sophisticated and interdisciplinary research goals. In Scientific Collaboration, biosecurity researcher and animal disease ecologist Jeanne M. Fair shares exciting—and occasionally cringeworthy—stories of scientists working together as an approachable way to introduce and explain the principles crucial to effective scientific collaboration. From the global community of scientists measuring sea ice decline to cooperative private-public sector investigations of harrowing virus outbreaks, the real-life experiences provide examples of and insights into how scientists rise to meet challenges together. Fair highlights principles for fostering community, integrity, loyalty, communication, and compassion among teams. Scientists can adopt and apply these principles to research collaborations to improve communication and trust among their team members all while working toward the common goal of discovery. Covering multidisciplinary research teams that have led to transformational breakthroughs as well as stories of hurdles and tough lessons learned, Scientific Collaboration provides a foundation for increasing research productivity while bringing more fun and joy into the collaborative process. This book will appeal to any scientists and team leaders who need to function in this new scientific world, wherein the most important breakthroughs happen through cooperation, combined effort, and mutual trust.
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The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Practice Research
The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Practice Research is the first international handbook to focus on practice research for social work. Bringing together leading scholars in the field from Europe, the USA and the Asia Pacific region, it provides an up-to-the minute overview of the latest thinking in practice research whilst also providing practical advice on how to undertake practice research in the field.
It is divided into five sections:
State of the art
Methodologies
Pedagogies
Applications
Expanding the frontiers
The range of topics discussed will enhance student development as well as increase the capacity of practitioners to conduct research; develop coordinating and leadership roles; and liaise with multiple stakeholders who will strengthen the context base for practice research.
As such, this handbook will be essential reading for all social work students, practitioners and academics as well as those working in other health and social care settings.
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The Lab Book
An important new approach to the study of laboratories,
presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks
of life From the \"Big Science\" of Bell Laboratories to the
esoteric world of séance chambers to university media labs to
neighborhood makerspaces, places we call \"labs\" are everywhere-but
how exactly do we account for the wide variety of ways that they
produce knowledge? More than imitations of science and engineering
labs, many contemporary labs are hybrid forms that require a new
methodological and theoretical toolkit to describe. The Lab
Book investigates these vital, creative spaces, presenting
readers with the concept of the \"hybrid lab\" and offering an
extended-and rare-critical investigation of how labs have
proliferated throughout culture.
Organized by interpretive categories such as space,
infrastructure, and imaginaries, The Lab Book uses both historical
and contemporary examples to show how laboratories have become
fundamentally connected to changes in the contemporary university.
Its wide reach includes institutions like the MIT Media Lab, the
Tuskegee Institute's Jesup Wagon, ACTLab, and the Media
Archaeological Fundus. The authors cover topics such as the
evolution and delineation of lab-based communities, how labs' tools
and technologies contribute to defining their space, and a glossary
of key hybrid lab techniques.
Providing rich historical breadth and depth, The Lab
Book brings into focus a critical, but often misunderstood,
aspect of the contemporary arts and humanities.
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Learning and teaching community-based research : linking pedagogy to practice
\"Community-Based Research, or CBR, is a mix of innovative, participatory approaches that put the community at the heart of the research process. Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research shows that CBR can also operate as an innovative pedagogical practice, engaging community members, research experts, and students.
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The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education
Worldwide, there has been a growth in service user involvement in education and research in recent years. This handbook is the first book which identifies what is happening in different regions of the world to provide different countries and client groups with the opportunity to learn from each other.
The book is divided into five sections: Section One examines service user involvement in context exploring theoretical issues which underpin service user involvement. In Section Two we focus on the state of service user involvement in human services education and research across the globe including examples of innovative practice, but also identifying examples of where it is not happening and why. Section Three offers more detailed examination of such involvement in a wide range of professional education learning settings. Section Four focuses on the involvement of service users in research involving a wide range of service user groups and situations. Lastly, Section Five explores future challenges for education and research to ensure involvement remains meaningful.
The book includes forty-eight chapters, including seventeen case-studies, from all regions of the world, this is the first book to both highlight the subject’s methodological and theoretical issues and give practical examples in education and research for those wishing to engage in this field.
It will be of interest to all service users, scholars and students of social work, nursing, occupational therapy, and other human service subjects.
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