ABSTRACT

The aim of the book has been to contribute to the field of collaborative research across different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and different empirical fields of practice by presenting and discussing a range of reflexive strategies for dealing with the challenges inherent in collaborative research. The range of strategies have a broad transdisciplinary and theoretical sweep, emanating from within and across the traditions of dialogic communication research, action research, post-structuralism, feminist research, science and technology studies and actor-network theory. Drawing on one or more of these traditions, each chapter anchored discussion of epistemological, ethical and methodological questions in sustained, empirically rich descriptions of collaborative research in diverse fields of practice.