Progressive research collaborations and the limits of soft power
Date
2019
Authors
Kits, Olga
Angus, Camille
MacLeod, Anna
Tummons, Jonathan
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Journal ISSN
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Publisher
Perspectives on Medical Education
Abstract
Collaboration in diverse teams is a central topic area in medical education, health research, and healthcare. As medical education researchers we implemented an internal grant policy to develop a progressive research partnership based on widely accepted guidelines for responsible conduct of research. Our intention was to proactively manage and guide group expectations around issues such as access to data and authorship. Our policy was based on ‘soft power’ principles, using the persuasiveness of ideas, relationships and inducements to encourage people to ‘want what you want.’ This article shares how we developed and implemented the policy, experienced first-hand the limits of soft power, and it explicates some of the lessons learned.
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Keywords
Responsible conduct of research, Soft power, Collaboration, Research practice, Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health
Citation
Kits, O., Angus, C., MacLeod, A., & Tummons, J. (2019). Progressive research collaborations and the limits of soft power. Perspectives on Medical Education, 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-019-0496-3