Research Tandems in International Collaboration: Luxembourg–China

University without Borders

“…Different solutions can be implemented to overcome the academic borders and the domination of Global North episteme in psychology. One example is the method of research-tandem international students' mobility implemented for MA theses (Xu & Marsico, 2020). The research-tandem is based on the assumption that diversity matters as the cornerstone of a meaningful cultural-based research.…”

“…It is being implemented as an international mobility project between the University of Oslo, the East China Normal University and the Federal University of Bahia by the authors of the present article. The idea is very simple: pairs of students from different cultural and academic backgrounds were created to work together on a joint small empirical study for their MA theses (Xu & Marsico, 2020). The research-tandem consists of paring one host student working as an insider or "local informant" with a guest student from a different country as outsider to make observations in the hosting context.…”

“…Seldom one could find a cross cultural study between, for instance, USA and Brazil, in which the dominant perspective is Brazilian. The first experiences of researchtandem students have been documented in the book edited by Xu & Marsico (2020).…”