Transformative Research Collaboration as 'Third Space' and 'Creative Understanding': Learnings from Higher Education Research and Doctoral Supervision

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  • Author(s): Natalia Veles (ORCID Natalia Veles (ORCID 0000-0002-6010-2653); P. A. Danaher (ORCID P. A. Danaher (ORCID 0000-0002-2289-7774)
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Research Papers in Education. 2024 39(1):50-66.
  • Publication Date:
    2024
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Evaluative
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      17
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
      Postsecondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Research; Cooperation; Doctoral Students; Supervisors; Creativity; Higher Education
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/02671522.2022.2089212
    • ISSN:
      0267-1522
      1470-1146
    • Abstract:
      Any research collaboration can potentially transform the participants' understandings and enhance their professional relationships with one another and with significant others. If this transformation is to eventuate, research collaborators need to exhibit mindfulness with regard to their multiple relationships, as well as to the intentions and effects of their collaborations. These requirements of transformative research collaborations align with, and build on, Macfarlane's (2017a) influential, six-element representation of research collaboration as a moral continuum, through the authors' rationale for adding a seventh element to this representation, centred on the ethically informed fusion of third space (Bhabha, 1994) and creative understanding (Bakhtin, 1986). The authors argue that this fusion enables researchers to move beyond the self-regarding and other-regarding binary underpinning Macfarlane's representation, and also to progress to a new collaboration dimension that is fundamentally democratic in character as well as creative and productive in its effects. The evidence for this argument derives from the first-named author's Doctor of Philosophy thesis (Veles, 2020), which investigated the cross-boundary third space collaboration of university actors, and for which the second-named author was a supervisor/adviser. The authors posit this particular research collaboration as transformative through its creative fusion of third space and creative understanding.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2024
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1408108