Interdisciplinary Practice
Irish Social Science Platform Summer School
June 22nd - 26th 2009
Hosted By National University of Ireland, Galway
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Contents
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
TRIL

Three Group Typologies

Collaboration

ENDEA: The Process
TRIL
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Industry/Academic Collaboration
Collaborators
National University Ireland
Galway
 University College Dublin
 Trinity College Dublin
 Intel Ireland
 Industrial Development
Agency, Ireland
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Research Focus
Phone
Transport &
Map
TRIL in SJH
Register &
consent
Referral letter
Ethnography
Detailed
medical history
& examination
Neurocardiovascular
Locomotive
Sensory
Social network
Hospital
ED, FABU
Cognitive
strand
Community
GP & Self
The TRIL
Journey
http://www.trilcentre.org
Social
strand
Feedback to participants
GP
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Medical or
rehabilitation
Follow-up
Three Group Typologies
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Cooperation

Coordination

Collaboration
Cooperation
Characteristics
 Loosely organized
 Little to no hierarchy
 No clear leadership. self-appointed leader
 Short-term
 Self-organizing
 Little time needed to implement work
 Skills and knowledge not key
Recommended
Volunteer groups
Informal gatherings
Simple activities
Not recommended
Long term projects
Complex activities
Professional work groups
Coordination
Characteristics
 Highly organized
 Members have differing levels of skill and knowledge
 Hierarchy
 Clear leader
 Long-term
 Organized by leadership
 Work can be implemented quickly in existing hierarchy
Recommended
Not Recommended
 Complex work
 Volunteer groups
 Routine work
 Creative work
 Managing less experience
 Cross functional or multi Work delegation
disciplinary teams
 Groups with similar skills
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Collaboration
Characteristics
 Internally organized
 Low level of hierarchy
 Facilitator agreed upon by group
 Long-term
 Time needed to develop team culture
 Skills and experience differ
 Members equal but different
Recommended for
Not Recommended for
 Creative work
 Volunteer groups
 Cross functional or
 Managing less experienced
multi-disciplinary teams  Work delegation
 Management teams
 Informal groups
 Work delegation
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Collaboration Benefits
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Creative / Innovative
Resolution of internal conflict
Output greater than individual
contribution
Collaboration Process: ENDEA
Four Stages
1.
Engage
2.
Negotiate
3.
Do the Work
4.
Evaluate/Assess
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Engage
Negotiate
Share
Evaluate
Do the Work
Collaboration Process
Engage
(getting in):
Defining the task
in hand; pooling
skills, knowledge,
resources,
learning from
each other and
agreeing a course
of action
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Negotiate
Engage
Share
Evaluate
Do the Work
Engage
1. The Task: How to capture the finer details of
older adults falls?
2. The Team: Older Adults, Geriatrician, Ethnographer,
Digital Health Engineer, Designer, Clinical Nurse
Manager, Medical Physicist
3. What the Team offered:
Older Adults (CNM)
Tools to plot daily activities in space and time (MP)
Life course and life world perspective (E)
Bio-Medical causes and consequences (C)
Technology for crude measurement of mobility (DHE)
Tools to plot routine pathways/daily activities with older adults (D)
Engage
Collaboration Process
Negotiate
(conditions for teaming)
Establishing roles,
responsibilities,
expectations of
individual members
and the team,
clarifying
desired/realistic
outcomes, time lines,
reporting and
support mechanisms
and agreeing
reviewing stages
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Engage
Negotiate
Share
Evaluate
Do the Work
Negotiate
Desired/Realistic Outcomes
Balancing objective (daily log) and subjective
(why specific activities) data collection’
Older adult v researcher timescales
Realistic in home research teams and research
activities
Roles/Responsibilities
Each as specialist
Each as team member
Each establishing participant led in home
practice
Communicating/Reporting
Weekly research updates
Midway reviews with refinement of data tools
Negotiate
Collaboration Process
Do the Work
(implement)
Communicating
progress; refining
implementation
depending on
ongoing outcomes;
ongoing negotiation
and meeting interim
and overall goals
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Negotiate
Engage
Share
Evaluate
Do the
Work
Do the Work
Each moved out of comfort
zone
but
not required to do something
felt ill prepared to do
rather
sharing, enriching study and
findings though pooling
Leading to
expertise
Rich socio-bio-medical
findings on taken for
granted nature of
everyday activity and
mobility
Do the Work
that
Can inform falls
prevention
Collaboration Process
Evaluate/Assess
(getting out)
This can be at the
end of a project
but it can also be
at any point in
the project where
the members
assess progress,
make course
corrections
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Negotiate
Engage
Share
Evaluate
Do the
Work
Evaluate
Refining/Negotiating/Engaging (Examples)
28 day daily log, ‘too tedious’, agree to reduce to 14 days;
House plan as reporting too for adult very helpful re raising
awareness – team meeting to discuss how to approach this;
Pedometer difficult to adapt to a dress, needs further research re
strapping;
How to visualise objective and subjective data, refer to others
outside of the team
Evaluate
Collaboration Process
Share
Build a work culture
on mutual respect
and understanding
in the engage and
negotiate stage.
Takes time.
Doing the work will
fall into place
Evaluation maintains
shared vision
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Engage
Negotiate
Share
Evaluate
Do the
Work