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

互联社区（CC）计划的设计方法是折衷的，既反映了构成艺术和人文学科的各种学科中发现的方法的范围，也反映了资助项目的交叉研究理事会基础。方法上的折衷主义可能是一个明显的优势，提供了综合一系列方法的可能性，产生了不同形式的数据，并回答了跨越传统学科的复杂问题。然而，这种方法也有风险，风险在于学术研究项目中权力和专业知识的不均衡分配。本研究将通过两种方式探索这些风险，与特定社区合作：早期职业研究人员（ECR）。该项目将举办一系列活动，让ECR参与研究过程，研究互联社区中的不同方法。它还将通过一个指导计划收集ECR经验的数据。连接认识论将开始与一个事件，将展示和发展ECR的研究方法进行社区研究的理解。然后，它将在四个月的时间里开展有针对性的辅导和数据收集方案。最后，它将与参与者和研究小组举办一个讲习班，为最后活动准备材料。最后一次活动将针对社区研究所涉及的学科范围，展示数据收集阶段的结果以及对社区研究所面临的方法学挑战进行进一步思考的论文。ECR是由资助理事会定义和创建的社区，为研究提供了一个明确界定的团队，具有三个重要特征。1)他们是准精英社区（有技能但边缘和不稳定）。精英社区尚未成为协调委员会的实质性重点，该项目将有助于弥补协调委员会工作中的差距。2)ECR是一个有特殊需求的社区，他们可能会从后续资金中受益，以了解他们在CC计划中的作用和地位3）从事CC项目的ECR通常处于尝试通过社区协作来驾驭不同学科逻辑的第一线。ECR社区的边缘但精英性质为探索和挑战支撑互联社区的假设创造了机会programme.该方案旨在开展合作。这个项目将提出有关协作的问题，因为它关注的是嵌入在方法论传统中的精英社区，这些传统赋予协作或多或少的地位。项目在询问协作所需的方法环境时，也可以询问协作何时开始和结束。特别是，它将提出对数据和生活体验的权力和控制问题。生活经验如何变成数据？如何提出这些建议？谁能控制他们？这些问题是通过了解ECR社区的生活经验，通过招募10个ECR来探索的。他们将通过一项活动招募，该活动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，但也挑战了互联社区方案关于这些可能都是互补的假设。招聘将由社区合作伙伴和项目团队成员的工作驱动，他们专注于参与和合作研究方法。

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.