Table 2 Illustrative quotes about researcher-initiated partnerships
Shared benefit | Benefit for researchers | Risk for research user agencies |
|---|---|---|
Innovation “Investigator driven research is fine, we actually encourage it all the time. That’s where ideas come up, where things that we haven’t thought of - we don’t have the capacity to think of everything and have every partner and be at every meeting. So certainly, there’s a very important role for investigator driven research.” Research user | Increased opportunity for cutting edge research “…if the researcher is initiating it…it’s more likely to be characterised by sort of something quite new in terms of maybe methods or thinking outside the square.” Policy-maker | Long timelines “…they [researcher-initiated partnership projects] can take a long time, longer than you need or have available. So you don’t get the answer you want when you want it, you get it eventually, but it may be too late by that point, in which case it’s something of a waste of time.” Policy-maker |
No acknowledgement “...they [policy-makers] weren’t acknowledged. They weren’t told that a peer review paper had been produced, it just came out…There wasn’t [1] the respect to even ask to produce the paper, and [2] to even ask whether someone could be an author on it. Someone who put a lot of intellectual property into the project.” Policy-maker | ||
Lack of practical outcomes “[A risk is that researchers were not]…making recommendations in reports that speak to those issues of policy and practice implications, rather than being airy fairy high falutin, more research needs to be in A, B, C. It’s not very helpful.” Research user |