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VALUING INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
List of figures, images and tables
What is at stake when we value collaborative research?
Collaborative research, its many traditions and legacies
The Connected Communities programme
Understanding the value of collaborative research through the Connected Communities programme
SECTION 1. Understanding legacy in practice
1. Weighing value: who decides what counts?
Whose value are we talking about and who decides?
Can the value of CUPs be evidenced?
How might that value be evidenced?
When to sustain or not sustain CUPs?
Principles of good CUP working that lead to value
2. Evaluating legacy: the who, what, why, when and where of evaluation for community research
The ‘problem’ with evaluation
What we found out and how
How useful were the evaluations?
Evaluation as a developmental and embedded practice
Conclusion: research, evaluation and the university in the community
3. Implicit values: uncounted legacies
Theorising values and intangible legacies
Evaluating and identifying legacies: through a values lens
Insights from values to legacies in collaborative and interdisciplinary work
4. Socialising heritage/socialising legacy
Co-designing the research: thinking and acting systemically
The two socials of heritage
Socialising ‘stewardship’ and ‘scale’
Socialising ‘expert’ and ‘voice (+ not being heard)’
Socialising ‘significance’
Legacies of heritage decisions: interacting ‘socials’
5. Performing the legacy of animative and iterative approaches to co-producing knowledge
Making sense of collaboration: five theoretical lenses
Projects in focus and their methods: cultural animation and iteration
Artefacts co-produced in these projects
Co-evaluating legacy: methodological insights
Legacy as the reproduction and transformation of a theatre tradition
Legacy as change in ideas or practices (or both)
Legacy as empowerment of individuals and groups
Legacy as a growing network
Legacy as novelty and change within repetition
6. What is the role of artists in interdisciplinary collaborative projects with universities and communities?
Artists working on interdisciplinary collaborative projects: a short history
Emerging findings: what did artists change?
7. Material legacies: shaping things and places through heritage
Introduction: why do materials matter?
Exploring the material legacies of heritage research
Synthesis: the legacies of materials and material legacies
Conclusion: the politics of materials in collaborative research
8. Translation across borders: connecting the academic and policy communities
Approaching legacy: from ‘impact’ to ‘translation’
The ‘policy brief’ projects and their legacies
Co-producing policy-relevant research – some final thoughts
9. Culturally mapping legacies of collaborative heritage projects
How to tell the story: inherent tensions
Co-production: a novel group of storytellers
The impact of combining mapping and storytelling for heritage research
Benefits and obstacles in cultural mapping
The need for qualitative conversations in exploring legacies
Visualising legacies: heritage DIY mapping toolkit
Guidance for understanding legacy
Section 2. Understanding collaborative research practices: a lexicon
A lexicon for making sense of collaborative, interdisciplinary research
Theoretical and methodological resources for working with the lexicon
Section 3. Future directions
Working productively with the dialectic of projects and processes
Understanding legacy as a dynamic process
What does this mean practically?
Valuing interdisciplinary collaborative research
：Beyond impact
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