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Many university researchers belong to research groups, yet little is known about what makes a research group effective or how they benefit members in terms of developing their capacity to produce high-quality research. This project seeks to examine research groups and their members in order to determine the factors that contribute to an effective research group and to collective as well as individual development within these groups.
For the purpose of this project, we use a broad definition of research groups. Research groups include any group that engage in research activities as a collective. The activities might include reading groups/circles, peer review, research projects or reflections on research endeavours. These groups may be part of an institution, through internal or external funding, or may exist separately from an institutional structure.
The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of high-quality research groups. The research questions are:
- What factors contribute to effective research groups?
- Why do researchers belong to research groups?
- How do researchers define a high-quality research group?
The project started out from the Australian research group Professional Practice Learning and Education – PPLE. When Research Group SOL started to collaborate, we added from our side an A for Australia and an S for Sweden: A-PPLE-S, which is the name of the Swedish part of the research project.
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