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Progressive research collaborations and the limits of soft power

Kits, O.; Angus, C.; MacLeod, A.; Tummons, J.

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Authors

O. Kits

C. Angus

A. MacLeod

J. Tummons



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.

Citation

Kits, O., Angus, C., MacLeod, A., & Tummons, J. (2019). Progressive research collaborations and the limits of soft power. Perspectives on Medical Education, 8(1), 28-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-019-0496-3

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 2, 2019
Online Publication Date Jan 28, 2019
Publication Date Feb 28, 2019
Deposit Date Jan 28, 2019
Publicly Available Date Feb 15, 2019
Journal Perspectives on medical education
Print ISSN 2212-2761
Electronic ISSN 2212-277X
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 8
Issue 1
Pages 28-32
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-019-0496-3

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