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Exploring capacity tensions in collaboration: Challenges and strategies
Thursday, March 14
The public administration literature has witnessed a turn towards stronger emphasis on causal inference and the use of experiments, and this also increasingly characterizes the public leadership literature. Particularly in leadership research, field experiments can be a necessary step for establishing causal evidence and at the same time maintain external validity of the studies. However, leadership is also difficult to manipulate as it is a processual concept that involves interaction and interference between people. But what are the gains from experimental leadership?
Social network methods are used to track changes in the structure of research collaboration over time. The submission of a scientific research proposals as a measure of an instance of collaboration is the basis of this research. Proposals represent a more complete view into collaboration activities than publications because the product studied does not depend on approval from exogenous reviewers. Proposals capture intent to collaborate and can be used as earlier indicators of collaboration than published work. For this study, a single proposal submitted for external funding by more than one investigator is an indicator of collaboration. Information in proposal archives for a 20 year period (2000-2020) is used to link each proposal to all investigators that collaborated to produce and submit the proposal to generate collaboration networks for all participating investigators for each year. Investigator attributes, including disciplinary background, rank, type of appointment, race, ethnicity and sex are used to test hypothesis about collaboration network structure related to inclusion and interdisciplinarity over time.
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Elisa Bienenstock, Kyle Whitman, Michael Simeone, Shauna BurnSilver, Derrick Anderson
2023
CORD Graduate Student Fellows have been doing great work at conferences in Fall 2023!
Led by the University of Granada (Spain), COMPARE (Contextual Mapping of academic Pathways Analysis for Research Evaluation) aims to systematically profile scientist and team dynamics in order to better inform academic policymakers in their decision making processes. The project is structured in four components: exploration of new data sources, profiling of scientists, study of team dynamics and case studies.
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Nicolas Robinson-Garcia (U-Granada)
CORD Collaborators: Julia Melkers; Mayra Morales Tirado; Victoria Pham; Francois van Schalkwyk
Associate Director Ulrich Jensen has been awarded a $1,507,855 Arizona Board of Regents grant to examine how government agencies can effectively communicate environmental information to residents and businesses.
The NETWISE research group is a multi-institutional research group that conducts research on careers of academic scientists, with special attention to underrepresented and understudied groups in STEM.
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A common thread in the NETWISE suite of studies are questions related to how social and professional networks matter in academic careers. Our studies also focus on relevant intersectional factors (race/ethnicity/gender/nativity and socioeconomic background). Given the richness of the data, project dissertations and papers have addressed a range of important issues in the careers of academic scientists well beyond those originally envisioned. As a team, we hope to contribute to both the theoretical understanding of how networks matter in the career advancement of academic scientists, but also to provide findings that will be useful in improving practice.
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Julia Melkers, Eric Welch, Monica Gaughan
Mayra Morales Tirado, Diogo Pinheiro, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia