A Study To Assess Initial Difficulties Encountered While Initiating Or Conducting Collaborative Research

Abstract

Research has always been imperative to academics and scientific progress. Researchers document their rigorous work and circumstantial findings as a means to reach a wider and more substantial audience. There are various issues faced by researchers and young scholars, and research collaboration turns out to be one major concern when it comes to acclimatising multidisciplinary research and reaching out to domains different from their own. This approach of collaborating with fellow researchers from different disciplines has many upsides such as - visibility amongst peers, networking and access to resources. This study has worked around using qualitative and quantitative research methods, utilising surveys and interviews to gather and collate data from scholars and researchers who have either established themselves in the virtue of or are stepping into Academic research, keeping an interdisciplinary approach in mind. Some initial themes that manifested after analysing the data produced were communication barriers, time management constraints, divergent research objectives, and challenges faced during hierarchical dynamics within collaborative teams. The purpose of this study was to

address the issues faced by researchers and find conclusive or potential solutions that can help mitigate more effective and productive research collaboration within any system or organization. The insights that emerged from this study led us into the depth of complexities that are present in collaborative research and steered us in the direction of providing a system or a platform that can act as a valuable aid in fostering successful collaboration amongst researchers.