Collaboration 101, Lecture notes of Gynecology

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Building effective

collaboration/networking

Ie-Ming Shih Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics

DEFINITION OF COLLABORATION

• Latin collaborare , which means " to work together ". Working with another to do something practical or to achieve a specific goal (Merriam-Webster 2014).
• Collaborative research is generally understood to mean joint work on a research project or program that needs or benefits from the knowledge, perspectives, and resources of many individuals, disciplines, or organizations.

Collaboration Across Disciplines

• Multidisciplinary: collaboration, researchers work on a problem within their own discipline-based perspectives in parallel with others, fitting their respective results together at the end of a project.
• Interdisciplinary : more intentionally collaborative, with researchers working together on a common problem from their respective disciplinary perspectives.
• Transdisciplinary : an even more collaborative form of work, in which researchers approach a common problem from an integrated conceptual framework, identifying the discipline-based methods and approaches that they can take together and redefining both the problem and its solution accordingly.

Shift from individual to collaborative

research

• Increasingly complex questions need the combined insights and skills of experts in multiple, complementary disciplines.
• New opportunities for translating research findings into commercial products, and the economic importance of research and development worldwide, have led to growth in collaborations between academic researchers and industry.
• Tighter governmental budgets for research and increased emphasis on cost-effectiveness have led to new collaborative structures
• Large numbers of international graduate and postdoctoral trainees have created new pathways for collaboration

FOCUS

Individual research COLLABORATRION Network research How to balance… Promote your own research Expand your research vision Publications Grant funding Academic visibility Job opportunity Citizenship Friendship Flying solo

Reduced No effect

Addition

Synergism

Outcomes of Research Collaboration Research Productivity & Gain

Pathways

Identify Collaborations Approaches Discussion & Plans Negotiations Follow-up Execution You are contacted for collaboration

Research

Needs

Collaboration

Networks

A brilliant idea made by an investigator during casual conversation…

• Conception and design
• Development of methodology
• Acquisition of data (provided animals, acquired and managed patients, provided facilities, etc.)
• Analysis and interpretation of data (e.g., statistical analysis, biostatistics, computational)
• Writing, review, and/or revision of manuscript
• Administrative, technical, or material support (i.e., reporting or organizing data, constructing databases)
• Study supervision What to collaborate?

“If you were in my shoes, what would you do?”

“… advice seeking is a

surprisingly effective strategy

for exercising influence when we

lack authority… Asking advice

encourages greater cooperation

& information sharing, turning

into a win-win…

Four benefits: learning, perspective taking, commitment and flattery

Summary

• The rewards of productive collaboration

beyond oneself

• Ripple effects
• “Seeing Advice” approach
• Balance “focus” and “collaboration

expansion”, give up too much time & credit?

• Never too early to talk about authorship, etc.
• Follow-up and motivation maintenance
• Friendship