ABSTRACT
Across diverse disciplines and empirical contexts, research practices involving collaboration between academic researchers and social actors in the fields under study proliferate. Collaborative research projects share the aim of co-production whereby social actors in the fields under study are enlisted in collaborative knowledge production as co-producers of knowledge. Collaboration and co-production have a long history in the research tradition of action research; the current wave of collaborative research goes beyond the bounds of action research, embracing a multiplicity of extremely heterogeneous research practices (Gallagher 2008, Gershon 2009, Porath 2010, Shani et al 2008, William 2012). Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research is about this hugely varied terrain.
