Data Analysis

AO. more than just "connecting"

AO: The analysts believe that collaboration is particularly important right now because the “grand, complex, and wicked challenges of today’s world necessitate new coalitions

DISCURSIVE RISKS: What are the epistemic assumptions of the analyst of collaboration?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

Gorman, Michael E. “Levels of Expertise and Trading Zones: A Framework for Multidisciplinary Collaboration.” Social Studies of Science 32, no. 5–6 (December 2002): 933–38.

Michael Gorman discusses the utility of the concepts "boundary objects" and "trading zones" in the study of collaborations across differing levels of expertise.Read more

Marcus, George E. "Introduction: Collaborative Analytics." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2017.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1170-introduction-collaborative-analytics

AO. untethered pot of seed funding + testing of various leadership styles

AO: The analysts describe a rolling pot of money that was available to support emergent ideas. The ideas were assessed collaboratively by a steering committee with representation

MESO: (How) are power relations said to shape the dynamics of collaboration at this research stage? What organizations are said to shape collaborations?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. lack of discussion of data.

AO: The analysts do not discuss data sharing practices at all.

DATA: How does the analyst point to the data practices in the collaboration? Or to the data produced about the collaboration? Where does that data travel?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. Earlier analyses of collaboration from funder M&E

AO: The analysts look at earlier examples of large multi-partner collaborations which noted that conditions for improving collaborative action included the processes (goal setting,

META: What discourses does the analyst consider/leverage to characterize/theorize collaboration at this research stage? (How) are histories and contextual factors pointed to as shaping the collaborations described here at this research stage?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

McDonald, Fiona, Cantarella, Luke and Murphy, Keith M. "Responsibility." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2017.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1178-responsibility

AO. "how to produce synthesis within and across projects"

AO: The analysts are worried about “how to produce syntheses within and across research projects that bring together results to have greater impact – so that the sum is greater than

DEUTERO: How is this analyst denoting and worrying about collaboration?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. Need for more flexible infrastructures to take advantage of opportunities for collaboration as they emerge

AO: The IDRC noted that “by requiring multiple partners to co-apply in order to obtain funding, partnerships did effectively emerge in response to those calls, but were primarily a

MACRO: (How) are economic and legal infrastructures said to shape, enable and constrain collaboration at this stage of the research process? What incentives and benefits are said to be part of collaboration at this stage of the research process?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. communities of practice and high "transaction costs" for collaborative synthesis

AO: Multi-partner rather than multi-stakeholder in order to highlight the sense of shared commitment necessary for the relationships described. “Multi-partner collaborations consist

EPISTEMIC CULTURES: (How) are epistemic cultures said to shape collaboration at this stage of the research process?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

Murphy, Keith M., McDonald, Fiona and Cantarella, Luke. "Collective Hunchwork." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2017.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1177-collective-hunchwork

Star, Susan Leigh, and James R. Griesemer. “Institutional Ecology, `Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39.” Social Studies of Science 19, no. 3 (August 1989): 387–420.

Abstract: Scientific work is heterogeneous, requiring many different actors and viewpoints. It also requires cooperation. The two create tension between divergent viewpoints and the need for generalizable findings. We present a model of how one group of actors managed this tension. It draws on...Read more

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