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3 Enhancing International Research Collaborations
Pages 24-36

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From page 24...
... Their recommendations centered on developing research capacity around the world among early-career as well as more established scholars, and, further, by facilitating these types of research interactions by addressing specific difficulties that international collaborators encounter. They also had suggestions for early-career scholars and funding agencies.
From page 25...
... explained and reflected on his experience leading the University of Michigan's South Africa Initiative Office. One notable project was the Moody Scholars Program for South African faculty who were simultaneously working as lecturers and completing the Ph.D.
From page 26...
... The program culminated with a conference at which the scholars presented their work in South Africa. The summer training program helped develop enhanced methodological and statistical skills among South Africans who will train and mentor the next generation of South African students.
From page 27...
... Barbarin also advocates that senior scholars do their best to identify any possible "hidden little pots of gold," such as research assistantships, library privileges, internal discretionary funds, or tuition swaps between institutions that could enhance the range of training opportunities. Senior researchers need to attend to the mentoring responsibilities present in any training opportunity.
From page 28...
... Research networks, Nichter argued, can not only accomplish greater results, but these partnerships also create fora for learning and foster a common sense of identity, improving the morale and motivation of researchers. Developing research capacity elsewhere, both through a menu of training options for individual scholars and by strengthening their home institutions and networks, can begin to address many of the obstacles that result from differences within international research teams.
From page 29...
... PROJECT DEVELOPMENT Addressing the specific obstacles they had identified earlier, workshop participants offered a number of comments and suggestions. Anyone considering an international collaboration should appreciate the longer than usual lead time that the first phase of a research project will require.
From page 30...
... From his experience with BEIP in Romania, Nelson recommended that international research projects contact local nongovernmental organizations for advice on such matters as culturally appropriate consent forms and local pay rates. Researchers should also try to gather precedents that have previously been used to satisfy IRB requirements.
From page 31...
... Data management also needs to be improved to facilitate international collaborations. This includes initial explicit agreement among collaborators and then eventual standardization across the field, regarding such matters as cleaning data, handling missing data, and incorporating late submissions.
From page 32...
... There was also agreement among workshop participants on the need to educate journal editors about the unique contributions of international collaborative research and to suggest greater flexibility when reviewing submissions that come from researchers for whom English is a second language. Unnecessarily rigid style requirements can prevent valuable research results from being shared.
From page 33...
... Professional societies should add workshops or small group meetings to their existing international meetings where junior researchers could identify potential collaborators and discuss possible projects. At similar workshops, experienced international researchers should help review proposals by junior scholars for international collaborations.
From page 34...
... Funders should also recognize the additional lead time needed to plan international research collaborations, and should ensure their funding mechanisms have enough flexibility to take such needs into account. Rather than requiring proposals to have a predetermined design and translated instruments, funding agencies could permit research collaborators to develop locally appropriate aspects of a design once a research agenda has been clearly defined.
From page 35...
... There are many steps that could be taken to facilitate international collaborations. Workshop participants made an array of recommendations relevant to journal editors, ethics review boards, and funding agencies and offered suggestions to collaborating researchers who find themselves crossing many national, cultural, or disciplinary boundaries.


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