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This lesson provides actionable tips on how to collaborate. This session is part of the insightful Future Human series. A vital aspect of becoming equipped for the future, collaboration involves cooperating with others to share skills and develop ideas. The ability to innovate, discuss new concepts, and understand different perspectives is essential in a fast-paced and interconnected world. Characterised by creativity, active listening, teamwork, empathy, and support, effective collaboration helps us to develop our sense of purpose and commitment to learning. Adam and Liggy examine the benefits of collaboration and some challenges you may encounter. They share various perspectives and quotations from experts and discuss how cooperation links to resilience, well-being, confidence, creativity, conflict, and trust. They explore why working successfully with others is vital for growth. Listen to the session to learn more about collaborating successfully with others to reach new levels of creativity and innovation. Learning Objectives Discover the definitions of collaboration. Examine how to successfully collaborate and overcome barriers to effective cooperation. Recognise the benefits of collaboration and how it relates to learning and innovation.

PurposeThe purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview of content and process of development of the five papers collected in this special issue on collaboration and storying.Design/methodology/approachThis guest editorial discusses the five papers in terms of their contribution both to debates on the utility of stories as data and forms of knowledge as well as to developing understandings of the research and practice of collaboration. Findings – The special issue integrates aspects of research, issues of research and connects with implications for practice.Originality/valueReaders are provided with an overview of the utility of stories as data, different levels of conceptualization of stories and the kinds of insights that can flow from this form of research.

Humanitarian organizations offer stability during disaster through relief operations. Identifying attributes of disaster response through collaboration at all levels increases effectiveness of operations. Past experience reveals the critical need for collaboration and coordination not only among the non-governmental, humanitarian organizations but also among the military, and private sectors. Proximity and understanding of the neighboring countries' political, social and geographic environment is the reason why military assets are usually the first ones to be deployed. However, there remain challenges in civil-military collaboration in terms of principles versus pragmatism as well as a general lack of military doctrine and training in humanitarian relief operations.

AbstractGovernance structures such as the American system of federalism create the incentive structure and framework for collaboration between local governments. This interlocal collaboration is crucial to helping governments deal with contemporary issues such as energy efficiency and climate policy where collective action can solve problems more successfully. The goal of this study is to examine how external rules such as federal grant regulations and the current scope of interlocal collaboration affect the choice of interlocal collaboration over time. We do this in the context of energy efficiency and climate policy using the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program.

There has long been a concern about the research-practice gap within Library and Information Science (LIS). Several authors have highlighted the disconnection between the world of professional practice, interested in service and information system development, and the world of the academy, focused on the development of theory and the progress of the discipline. A virtual organization, such as a collaboratory, might support collaboration between LIS professionals and academics in research, potentially transforming the way research between these two groups is undertaken. The purpose of this study was to examine how sociotechnical aspects of work organization influence the initiation, development, and conclusion of collaboration between LIS academics and professionals in distributed research projects. The study examined the development of three collaborative projects from the start to completion in two countries, Italy and another European country. The data analysis aimed at deriving implications for the further development of theory on remote scientific collaboration, and for the design of a sustainable collaboratory to support small-scale, distributed research projects between LIS academics and professionals. The research design, data collection, and data analysis were informed by Actor- Network-Theory (ANT), in particular by Callon's model of translation of interests. Qualitative interviews and analysis of literary inscriptions formed the key sources of data for the three case studies. The analysis of how and why collaborations between LIS academics and professionals initiated and developed revealed that the initial motivation to pursue collaboration has to do with the lack of economic and organizational resources on either or both sides, and with a genuine interest in a topic by both academics and professionals. The case studies in this study were decentralized and bottom-up projects in which LIS academics and professionals pursued collaboration because they had a genuine interest in a given topic and not because they were mandated by their employers, or they hoped to be acknowledged and promoted by them on the basis of their participation in the project. Market conditions and/or institutional pressures did not exert much influence on the start and development of these collaborations, although one project was influenced by political considerations and funding conditions in healthcare. The patterns emerged from the findings of the three cases underpin the development of a sociotechnical framework aimed at providing a better understanding of remote collaboration between academics and professionals not only in LIS but also in other fields affected by the research-practice gap. ; Akademisk avhandling som med tillstånd av samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Göteborgs universitet för vinnande av doktorsexamen framläggs till offentlig granskning kl. 13.15 torsdagen den 29 april 2010, i hörsal C203, Högskolan i Borås, Allégatan 1, Borås.