With Richard Sennett, professor of sociology at LSE, he founded the NYLON programme, which brings together graduate students from New York and London for co-operative research programmes.
This week saw the launch of the UK and Wales co-operatives research report Social Co-operatives, a Democratic Co-Production Agenda for Care Services in the UK.
In January 1999, the 2-year European co-operative research project 'Advanced workstations for controlled laser cleaning of artworks' started.
This paper shows how a co-operative research project enabled an Indigenous group from the Queensland Wet Tropics to better engage in water governance on their traditional country.
The ionospheric community has long been aware that co-operative research on an international basis is essential to deal with temporal and spatial changes in the ionosphere that influence the performance of terrestrial and Earth space radio systems.
While medical research received a large injection of funds, university research funding was cut, as was financial support for co-operative research centres, which bring industry and scientists together to forge solutions to some of the biggest environmental, social and economic challenges facing the country.
In a co-operative research project between the medical and nursing profession we developed a nurse-led education programme that aims to enhance self-care agency in leg ulcer patients.
This arrangement incorporates the four broad principles of a truly co-operative research partnership proposed by Costello and Zumla [ 17], including mutual trust and shared decision making; national ownership; emphasis on translating research findings into policy and practice; and development of national research capacity.
Any adaptation to the intervention protocol is decided, documented, and evaluated in collaboration with the operative group, research group, and steering committee at regular scheduled audits throughout the study.
As in other forms of action research, research participants in co-operative inquiry are active associates who participate in the 'thinking' and the 'doing' of the research.
Just as the decade-long effort to map the 3.3 billion base pairs that make up the 23 chromosomes in the human genome required close co-ordination between scientists worldwide, so Markram argues mapping the human brain in all its neural complexity will take a similarly co-operative international research effort.
