Connecting Epistemologies: Methods and Early Career Researchers in the Connected Communities Programme

互联社区（CC）方案的设计在方法上是折衷的，既反映了构成艺术和人文学科的各种学科的方法范围，也反映了资助项目的跨研究理事会基础。方法论折衷主义可能是一个明显的优势，它提供了综合一系列方法的可能性，产生不同形式的数据，并回答跨越传统学科的复杂问题。然而，这种方法也存在风险，这种风险是基于学术研究项目中权力和专业知识分配不均。这项研究将通过两种方式探索这些风险，与一个特定的社区合作：早期职业研究人员（ECRs）。该项目将开展一系列活动，让ecr参与研究过程，研究互联社区的不同方法。它还将通过一项指导计划收集有关ECR经验的数据。连接认识论将以一个活动开始，该活动将展示和发展ECR对进行社区研究的研究方法的理解。然后，它将在四个月的时间里运行一个有针对性的指导和数据收集项目。最后，它将与参与者和研究团队一起举办研讨会，为最后的活动准备材料。最后的活动将针对社区研究涉及的学科范围，将展示数据收集阶段的发现，以及对社区研究面临的方法论挑战提出进一步思考的论文。ecr是一个由资助委员会定义和创建的社区，为研究提供了一个明确界定的群体，该群体具有三个重要特征。1)他们是准精英群体（有技能但处于边缘和不稳定状态）。精英社区尚未成为CC的实质性重点，该项目将有助于弥补CC工作中的空白。2) ecr是一个有特定需求的社区，他们可能会从后续资金中受益，以了解他们在CC计划中的角色和地位3)从事CC项目的ecr通常处于尝试通过社区合作来驾驭不同学科逻辑的前线。ECR社区的外围但精英性质为探索和挑战支撑互联社区计划的假设创造了机会。该方案的设计是合作性的。这个项目将提出关于协作的问题，因为它关注的是一个精英社区，他们嵌入在方法论传统中，给予协作或多或少的地位。当项目询问协作所必需的方法学环境时，也可以询问协作何时开始和结束。特别是，它将引发对数据和生活经验的权力和控制的问题。生活经历是如何变成数据的？这些是如何呈现的？谁在控制他们？通过了解ECR社区的生活经历，通过招募10名ECR来探索这些问题。他们将被一个旨在提高人们对与社区研究相关的各种方法可能性的认识的活动所招募，同时也将挑战互联社区项目的假设，即这些方法可能都是互补的。招聘将由社区合作伙伴和项目团队成员的工作推动，他们专注于参与性和合作性研究方法。

The Connected Communities (CC) programme has been designed to be methodologically eclectic, reflecting both the range of approaches found in the various disciplines constituting the arts and humanities, as well as the cross-research council basis for the funded projects. Methodological eclecticism can be an obvious strength, offering the possibility of synthesising a range of approaches, generating diverse forms of data and answering complex questions which cut across traditional academic disciplines. However, there are risks with this approach, risks which are grounded in the uneven distribution of power and expertise within academic research projects. This research will explore these risks in two ways, in co-operation with a specific community: Early Career Researchers (ECRs). The project will run a series of events that will involve ECRs in the research process looking at differing methodological approaches within Connected Communities. It will also gather data on the ECR experience, via a mentoring scheme.Connecting Epistemologies will begin with an event that will showcase and develop ECR understanding of research methods for doing community research. It will then run a targeted mentoring and data collection programme over the course of four months. Finally it will run a workshop with the participants and the research team to prepare materials for a final event. The final event will be targeted across the range of academic disciplines involved in community research, which will present the findings from the data collection phase as well as papers offering further reflections on the methodological challenges facing community research.ECRs are a community defined and created by the funding council, giving the research a clearly bounded group to work with that has three important characteristics. 1) They are quasi-elite community (skilled but peripheral and precarious). Elite communities have not been made a substantive focus of the CC and this project would contribute to the gap in the CC work. 2) ECRs are a community with specific needs who would potentially benefit from the follow on funding to understand their role and position within the CC programme 3) ECRs working on CC projects are often at the front line of trying to navigate different disciplinary logics with community collaboration.The peripheral but elite nature of the ECR community creates an opportunity to explore and to challenge the assumptions underpinning the Connected Communities programme. The programme was designed to be collaborative. This project will raise questions about collaboration, as it focuses on an elite community who are embedded in methodological traditions that give greater or lesser status to collaboration. The project, when asking what the methodological circumstances necessary for collaboration might be, can also ask when collaboration begins and ends. In particular it will raise questions of power and control over data and lived experiences. How do lived experiences become data? How can these be presented? Who has control over them?These questions are explored by understanding the lived experiences of the ECR community, by the recruitment of 10 ECRs. They will be recruited by an event that seeks to raise awareness of the range of methodological possibilities associated with community research, but also to challenge the Connected Communities programme's assumptions that these may all be complimentary. The recruitment will be driven by the work of the community partner and members of the project team who have focused on participatory and collaborative research methods.