Collaborations and Collaborations - What's Next?

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This week's special looks at how collaborations have been forged in the last 12 to 15 months. We ask our audience about their experiences with international partners, and we're inviting them to write in with details. And a short documentary shows what happens inside a collaboration between one team in china, and another in korea. For more on communicaty base research, checke the common article written by rick saddler from michigan state university,. and yvonne lewis of african American health consciousness.

The pros and pitfalls of collaboration, with insights from researchers and beyond.

This week, Nature has a special issue on collaborations, looking at the benefits to science and society that working together can bring. In this collaboration-themed edition of the podcast, we’re joined by Nature’s David Payne to discuss the issue, and the state of research collaborations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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02:49 How are research collaborations changing?

To answer the biggest questions, research teams are coming together in larger numbers than ever before. But the scientific enterprise hasn’t been set up to support or reward team efforts. We look at how funding systems and methods for giving research-credit need to adapt, to match the reality of modern science.

Feature: How the COVID pandemic is changing global science collaborations

Careers Feature: The authorship rows that sour scientific collaborations

Careers Feature: ‘We need to talk’: ways to prevent collaborations breaking down

16:45 Community-research collaborations

In order to do research that can help communities, scientists need to develop relationships with community members. Creating these bonds can be fraught with difficulty, so we examine how to make them work using the example of Flint, Michigan in the US.

Comment: Community–academic partnerships helped Flint through its water crisis

Nature Video: China and the UK: Making an international collaboration work

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