“Faster Alone, Further Together”: Reflections on INKE’s Year Six

Authors

  • Lynne Siemens University of Victoria
  • INKE Research Group

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2016v7n2/3a250

Keywords:

Collaboration, Networked scholarship, Research teams, Digital humanities, INKE

Abstract

Background: This article examines Implementing New Knowledge Environments’ (INKE) experiences as a mature, large-scale collaboration working with academic and non-academic partners and provides some insight into best practices. It looks at the sixth year of funded research.

Analysis: The study uses semi-structured interviews with questions focused on the nature of collaboration with selected members of the INKE research team. Data analysis employs a grounded theory approach.

Conclusion and implication: The interviewees found the experience of collaborating within INKE to be positive with some ongoing challenges. The team is winding down as it moves into the final year of funded research. This suggests an arc of collaboration, with intensity of collaboration building from the first year to the most intensive time in the middle years and then winding down in the last years of grant funding. This article contributes to those lessons about collaboration by exploring the lived experience of a long-term, large-scale research project.

Author Biography

Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria

Lynne Siemens is Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8N 1M5

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Published

2016-11-08