Collaboration in Practice
Six failure modes, all preventable in the first month
The same six problems recur across partnership after partnership, and all six are cheap to prevent early.
Collaboration in Practice
How joint projects actually run, from first contact to final report.
Collaboration in Practice
Collaboration in Practice
Long partnerships: the second and third projects are where the value is
The first project pays for learning how to work together. Most collaborations stop before collecting the return.
Collaboration in Practice
Authorship: settle it before data collection, because afterwards the conversation carries weight
The partner with less institutional power cannot open this conversation, which makes it your responsibility.
Collaboration in Practice
Field research: your local partner holds the relationships, and that sets the pace
Access to a field site is not a permit. It is a relationship someone has spent years building.
Collaboration in Practice
How joint projects actually run: the constraints nobody writes into the proposal
Approval timelines, teaching calendars and procurement rules shape a project more than the research design does.
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