Guiding Principles for a Successful Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration

Lustig, Lindsay C; Ponzielli, Romina; Tang, Peter S.; Sathiamoorthy, S.; Inamoto, Ichiro; Shin, Jumi A.; Penn, Linda Z.; Chan, Warren C. W.

doi:10.4155/fso.15.1

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“…This review shows that challenges in the field relate to conceptual, institutional, communication and information management, coordination and resources. While similar findings have been established in studies outside HPSR settings [14,16,17,33,99,104], cross-disciplinary HPSR projects and teams often have unique contexts and face peculiar challenges [5,6,25] and this review offers guidance to overcoming some of these complex contextual challenges. Our synthesis of the contexts and mechanism of emerging challenges and the strategies used to mitigate them presents a useful map for achieving cross-disciplinary outcomes.…”

Section: Resourcessupporting

confidence: 71%

“…As the research progresses, communication dynamics may stray due to the multiplicity of stakeholder interests in health settings [19,23,52,66,73]. Knowing what and how best to convey the results and diverse opinions of the research team devoid of dominance by a single discipline is a great challenge, especially for early career researchers [99]. Using different disciplinary languages and media to disseminate research results to different target groups is another major challenge [19,54,56,59,67].…”

Section: Challenges Of Cross-disciplinary Hpsrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using different disciplinary languages and media to disseminate research results to different target groups is another major challenge [19,54,56,59,67]. Agreeing on a publication strategy (choice of journal and order of authors) is often also a very controversial communication issue [19,59,67,68,99]. Addressing the communication challenge requires having a shared communication and information management plan from the onset of the research [23,57,60,73], which may be supported by the use of non-traditional interactive media to develop shared communication platforms [23,60,73,79].…”

Section: Challenges Of Cross-disciplinary Hpsrmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A critical realist synthesis of cross-disciplinary health policy and systems research: defining characteristic features, developing an evaluation framework and identifying challenges

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Tanyeh

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Background: Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is an inherently cross-disciplinary field of investigation. However, conflicting conceptualisations about inter-, multi-and transdisciplinary research have contributed to confusion about the characteristics of cross-disciplinary approaches in HPSR. This review was conducted to (1) define the characteristic features of context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) configurations in cross-disciplinary HPSR, (2) develop criteria for evaluating cross-disciplinarity and (3) synthesise emerging challenges of the approach. Method: The paper is a critical realist synthesis conducted in three phases, as follows: (1) scoping the literature, (2) searching for and screening the evidence, and (3) extracting and synthesising the evidence. Five databases, namely the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences and Web of Science, PubMed central, Embase and CINHAL, and reference lists of studies that qualified for inclusion in the review were searched. The search covered peerreviewed original research, reviews, commentary papers, and institutional or government reports published in English between January 1998 and January 2020. Results: A total of 7792 titles were identified in the online search and 137 publications, comprising pilot studies as well as anecdotal and empirical literature were selected for the final review. The review draws attention to the fact that cross-disciplinary HPSR is not defined by individual characteristics but by the combination of a particular type of research question and setting (context), a specific way of researchers working together (mechanism), and research output (outcome) that is superior to what could be achieved under a monodisciplinary approach. This CMO framework also informs the criteria for assessing whether a given HPSR is truly cross-disciplinary. The challenges of cross-disciplinary HPSR and their accompanying coping mechanisms were also found to be context driven, originating mainly from conceptual disagreements, institutional restrictions, communication and information management challenges, coordination problems, and resource limitations.

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Section: Resourcessupporting

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Section: Challenges Of Cross-disciplinary Hpsrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Challenges Of Cross-disciplinary Hpsrmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A critical realist synthesis of cross-disciplinary health policy and systems research: defining characteristic features, developing an evaluation framework and identifying challenges

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Tanyeh

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“…On the other hand, few are in favor of publishing every new finding and others prefer a single large publication after compilation of whole data. [1]…”

Section: Various Forms Of Collaborative Researchmentioning

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Collaborative research in modern era: Need and challenges

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“…All of these are components are essential in creating successful capstone design experiences. 1,5,6,8 What Did Not Go Well Although most teams were able to complete some type of physical or computational prototype, one team that had a cell-based project was unable to successfully complete the final testing of their project due to the lack of access to a biological lab. This team was only able to computationally model the delivery of their cells.…”

Section: What Went Wellmentioning

confidence: 99%