Research Strategy Generation: Avoiding Academic 'Animal Farm'

Methven, Thomas S.; Padilla, Stefano; Corne, David W.; Chantler, Mike J.

Abstract

In his famous novel, Animal Farm, Orwell coined the phrase 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others' [4]. This satirical observation aptly describes many common problems which emerge in group dynamics, such as the problem of mismatched contribution from over and under achievers. Our motivation, therefore, is to develop a process which assists groups of academics and other stakeholders to collaboratively generate research strategy in an open, engaging, and democratic way. To this end, we will discuss a simple process involving two tools (both free for use by academics) which are designed to avoid, or at least alleviate, what we term as Academic Animal Farm.

Citation

Methven, T. S., Padilla, S., Corne, D. W., & Chantler, M. J. (2014, February). Research Strategy Generation: Avoiding Academic 'Animal Farm'. Presented at 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
• Start Date: Feb 15, 2014
• End Date: Feb 19, 2014
• Acceptance Date: Jan 8, 2014
• Publication Date: Feb 15, 2014
• Deposit Date: Oct 23, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 25-28
• Book Title: CSCW Companion '14 Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
• ISBN: 9781450325417
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2556420.2556785
• Keywords: Animal farm, Automated document generation, Card sorting, Local collaboration, Meeting tools, Natural language processing, Remote collaboration, Research strategy, Topic modeling, Visualization,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1320864