Abstract

Growth in collaborative research raises difficulties for those tasked with research evaluation, particularly in situations where outcomes are slow to emerge. This article presents the ‘Diversity Approach to Research Evaluation’ (DARE) as a novel way to assess how researchers engaged in knowledge creation and application work together as teams. DARE provides two important insights: first, it reveals the differences in background and experience between individual team members that can make research collaboration both valuable and challenging; second, DARE provides early insights into how team members are working together. DARE achieves these insights by analysing team diversity and cohesiveness in five dimensions, building on Boschma’s multi-dimensional concept of proximity. The method we propose combines narratives, maps, and indicators to facilitate the study of research collaboration. The article introduces the DARE method and pilots an initial operationalization through the study of two grant-funded biomedical research projects led by researchers in the UK. Suggestions for further development of the approach are discussed.

中文翻译：

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敢于与众不同？分析合作研究项目多样性的新颖方法

摘要

协作研究的增长给承担研究评估任务的人员带来了困难，尤其是在成果缓慢出现的情况下。本文介绍了“研究评估的多样性方法”（DARE），这是一种评估参与知识创造和应用的研究人员如何团队协作的新颖方法。DARE提供了两个重要的见解：首先，它揭示了各个团队成员之间背景和经验的差异，这可能使研究协作既有价值又具有挑战性。其次，DARE提供了有关团队成员如何合作的早期见解。DARE通过基于博世（Boschma）的多维接近度概念在五个维度上分析团队的多样性和凝聚力来获得这些见解。我们建议的方法将叙述，地图，和促进研究合作研究的指标。本文介绍了DARE方法，并通过研究由英国研究人员牵头的两个由赠款资助的生物医学研究项目，尝试了初始操作。讨论了进一步开发该方法的建议。