Learning from Each Other: Respecting Cultural Differences in an International Research Agenda

ABSTRACT As opportunities for international research collaboration increase, it becomes increasingly important to recognise the importance of respecting cultural differences in our traditions and approaches to the research process. By discussing these differences and also establishing common ground, it is possible to strengthen research capacity and draw upon a range of methodological and philosophical expertise. Such a process should also enable educational researchers to reconsider their relationships with other professionals and to engage with them in order to ensure that effective dissemination informs policy and practice. This necessitates the promotion of wider partnerships for research that respect the professional skills of teachers and other users of educational research. This paper challenges the notion that research should be exclusively located within the academy and calls for a reappraisal of working practices, that may lead to a more collegiate approach which thereby directly influences teaching and learning.

Download Full-text

Output regularities of China's international collaboration research projects funded by NSFC

Library Hi Tech ◽

10.1108/lht-03-2020-0075 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Xiujuan Chen ◽

Zhiqiang Zhang ◽

Jinjing Guo

Keyword(s):

International Collaboration ◽

International Research ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Research Output ◽

Research Capacity ◽

Analysis Model ◽

Joint Research ◽

International Research Collaboration ◽

Content Type ◽

Joint Research Project

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical basis and data support for researchers to choose appropriate international partners, provide a basis for Chinese research funding agencies, such as National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) to formulate international research collaboration (IRC) strategies and policies and provide recommendations for the improvement of the internationalization level of China's basic scientific research.Design/methodology/approachBased on existing research, this study took output of “Major International (Regional) Joint Research Project” (MIJRP) funded by NSFC and participated by Chinese scholars in the meantime as the analysis object, proposed hypotheses and constructed the indicators of IRC and research output (RO). In addition, the mathematical statistics was used to compare the RO of China's IRC and nonIRC, and the statistical analysis model was used to measure the influence on RO of collaboration country's research capacity, research collaboration between China and US, scope of international research collaboration and reprint author country.FindingsThe RO of China's IRC is higher than that of nonIRC; research capacity of collaboration country has no inevitable effect on the RO of China's IRC; the RO of China's IRC participated by Americans is higher than that without American scholars; expanding the scope of China's IRC to some degree can increase RO; the RO of China's IRC led by foreigners is higher than that led by Chinese. In particular, China–US IRC and foreign scholars acting as the reprint author are two major factors for the RO of China's IRC.Originality/valueMost of the traditional research on IRC are based on the co-author papers, and this study tried to analyze the characteristics and regularities on IRC from a new view of international collaboration projects, which can be a supplement to the traditional international collaboration research on co-author papers.

Download Full-text

New Developments in International Research Collaboration

International Higher Education ◽

10.6017/ihe.2008.50.7998 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Sachi Hatakenaka

Keyword(s):

International Research ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Research Capacity ◽

Research Center ◽

International Research Collaboration ◽

New Developments ◽

Center Of Excellence ◽

Economic Significance ◽

World Class

International research collaboration has entered an era in which networking has a direct economic significance. Some governments are already beginning to pay a premium to become hubs in global excellence networks. The approaches include strengthening its bilateral ties, investing in world-class research center of excellence. The question is whether these developments will produce significant changes in the world's research capacity.

Download Full-text

Is academia becoming more localised? The growth of regional knowledge networks within international research collaboration

Applied Network Science ◽

10.1007/s41109-021-00371-w ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

John Fitzgerald ◽

Sanna Ojanperä ◽

Neave O’Clery

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

International Collaboration ◽

International Research ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Learning By Doing ◽

Knowledge Networks ◽

Collaboration Network ◽

International Research Collaboration ◽

The Past ◽

Capability Building

AbstractIt is well-established that the process of learning and capability building is core to economic development and structural transformation. Since knowledge is ‘sticky’, a key component of this process is learning-by-doing, which can be achieved via a variety of mechanisms including international research collaboration. Uncovering significant inter-country research ties using Scopus co-authorship data, we show that within-region collaboration has increased over the past five decades relative to international collaboration. Further supporting this insight, we find that while communities present in the global collaboration network before 2000 were often based on historical geopolitical or colonial lines, in more recent years they increasingly align with a simple partition of countries by regions. These findings are unexpected in light of a presumed continual increase in globalisation, and have significant implications for the design of programmes aimed at promoting international research collaboration and knowledge diffusion.

Download Full-text