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Characteristics of contemporary health research practice: A shift from ivory tower to collaborative power
Research Evaluation, Vol.Advanced access
2024
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Abstract
The academic world is rapidly changing due to multiple influences, including COVID-19, technological advancement, tertiary competition, shifting government policies, and emerging research practices and priorities. Given this rapidly changing tertiary-education landscape, added importance is placed on the need for emerging research leaders to understand contemporary research practices which likely exceeds the skills displayed by their supervisors and mentors. Consequently, reflecting on 80+ years of collective post-PhD research experience, we identify and discuss six common characteristics of contemporary health research practice, with the aim of guiding and empowering higher degree by research students and emerging early career researchers as they develop their research identities and shape their approaches and values on the path to becoming research leaders in health. Indicative of today's dynamic and exacting research environment, we propose that best practice contemporary health research should be: Diverse; Creative; Collaborative; Authentic; Respectful; and, Trusting. By understanding a diverse range of research approaches, and through working in collaborative and creative teams, diversity of thought, approach, and methods can become a cornerstone of practice. By blending this understanding with questions and research approaches that facilitate the pathway of translation uptake for the next-user, emerging research leaders can deliver authentic research with the requisite ingredients for impact.
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- Title
- Characteristics of contemporary health research practice: A shift from ivory tower to collaborative power
- Authors
- Daniel P. Wadsworth (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - NursingAlison Craswell - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - NursingAndy Ward - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesKristen Tulloch - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - PsychologyMia A. Schaumberg - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - BiomedicineLee Stoner - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillPamela J. Meredith - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Occupational TherapyChristopher D. Askew - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Sports & Exercise Science
- Publication details
- Research Evaluation, Vol.Advanced access
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- DOI
- 10.1093/reseval/rvae006
- ISSN
- 1471-5449; 0958-2029
- Copyright note
- (c) The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Biomedicine; School of Business and Creative Industries; Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing; School of Health - Occupational Therapy; Cancer Research Cluster; School of Health - Psychology; School of Health - Sports & Exercise Science
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991016467802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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