In vivo studies of transdisciplinary scientific collaboration - Lessons learned and implications for active living research
In vivo studies of transdisciplinary scientific collaboration - Lessons learned and implications for active living research
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DOI：
10.1016/j.amepre.2004.10.016
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发表时间：
2005-02-01
影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Phillips, K
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作者：
Stokols, D;Harvey, R;Phillips, K
在过去的20年里，人们对跨学科研究团队和中心的兴趣和投资激增。然而，直到最近才努力评估这些努力的协作过程以及科学和公共政策成果。本文提供了一个概念框架，了解和评估跨学科研究，并介绍了一个大规模的国家倡议，美国国立卫生研究院跨学科烟草使用研究中心（TTURCs）计划，进行促进跨学科的科学合作，在烟草使用科学和预防领域。描述了1999年至2004年期间在多个TTURC中心进行的协作过程和结果的5年评价。调查结果突出了参与中心面临的关键背景情况（即，每个中心所代表的学科和部门的广度、成员在先前项目中合作的程度、研究人员办公室之间的空间接近程度以及他们面对面互动的频率），这些因素影响了他们的合作准备程度，并促使他们遵循不同的途径实现跨学科整合。这些研究结果的影响，积极的生活研究领域的发展和评估未来的跨学科研究举措进行了讨论。
The past 2 decades have witnessed a surge of interest and investment in transdisciplinary research teams and centers. Only recently, however, have efforts been made to evaluate the collaborative processes and scientific and public policy outcomes of these endeavors. This paper offers a conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating transdisciplinary research, and describes a large-scale national initiative, the National Institutes of Health Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURCs) program, undertaken to promote cross-disciplinary scientific collaboration in the field of tobacco use science and prevention. A 5-year evaluation of collaborative processes and outcomes observed across multiple TTURC centers conducted during 1999 to 2004 is described. The findings highlight key contextual circumstances faced by participating centers (i.e., the breadth of disciplines and departments represented by each center, the extent to which members had worked together on prior projects, spatial proximity among researchers' offices, and frequency of their face-to-face interaction) that influenced their readiness for collaboration and prompted them to follow different pathways toward transdisciplinary integration. Implications of these findings for developing and evaluating future transdisciplinary research initiatives in the field of active living research are discussed.