Research Design

AO: two cases of collaboration are analyzed: multi-national, publicly funded project bringing together research teams from Britain and Bangladesh and a...Read more

MICRO: What did the analyst choose to describe as collaboration?

Jentsch, Birgit, and Catherine Pilley. 2003. “Research Relationships between the South and the North: Cinderella and the Ugly Sisters?” Social Science & Medicine (1982) 57 (10): 1957–67.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. tackling ICT design problems and critiques of ICTD with earlier engagement with users.

AO: The authors are thinking about how they can address ICT design problems through engagement with their users.Read more

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

Halabi, Ammar, Basile Zimmermann, and Michele Courant. 2013. “Participate, Collaborate, and Decide: Defining Design Problems in a Syrian Community.” In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on ICTD, 49–52. ICTD ’13. New York, NY, USA: ACM.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. authorship and publishing infrastructures and incentives

AO: The issue of authorship begins even before the actual writing of the paper as the analysts note: “Who is given the opportunity to contribute, and thus potentially qualify as an

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?

Jentsch, Birgit, and Catherine Pilley. 2003. “Research Relationships between the South and the North: Cinderella and the Ugly Sisters?” Social Science & Medicine (1982) 57 (10): 1957–67.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. missing discussion of material constraints

AO: No discussion of material constraints.

ECO: What material constraints are said to undergird this collaboration?

Hall, Kara L., Annie X. Feng, Richard P. Moser, Daniel Stokols, and Brandie K. Taylor. 2008. “Moving the Science of Team Science Forward: Collaboration and Creativity.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine, The Science of Team Science, 35 .

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. "local" knowledge and assumed foreign expertise

AO: Western researchers (with funding) assume they know the best “problem space” so design the survey whereas non-Western local researchers feel that the research design and

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

Jentsch, Birgit, and Catherine Pilley. 2003. “Research Relationships between the South and the North: Cinderella and the Ugly Sisters?” Social Science & Medicine (1982) 57 (10): 1957–67.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

Rees, Tobias, insitigator. “Concept Work and Collaboration in the Anthropology of the Contemporary,” ARC Exchange, No. 1, July, 2007.

From the Introduction: "The relationship between ethnography and anthropological method is at the center of these questions raised in the Exchange presented here. On the one hand, the participants consider various questions concerning the status of ethnographic authority, and its relationship to...Read more