Simon Sjölund | Tasks, roles and authority for equitable research-practice partnerships
Channel: CSET at Stanford
Date: 2023-04-13

Recorded April 11, 2023. Simon Sjölund is in his last year of PhD studies at Mälardalen University (Västerås, Sweden) focusing on collaborative education research. He has published two systematic literature reviews on the topic and is currently involved in a collaborative research and improvement effort focused on sustainable development in preschool. In this presentation Simon discusses his work. Research-practice partnerships have emerged as a promising approach to bridging the gap between educational research and practice. However, establishing and maintaining these partnerships presents numerous challenges, including the need to adjust roles to a new setting and to each other. This presentation reports on a systematic literature review of 80 articles aimed at exploring the different roles of researchers and practitioners in educational research-practice partnerships. Specifically, the presentation will describe and discuss a categorization of three main processes for school development and eight different roles for researchers and practitioners. Based on how tasks are distributed, the different roles provide varying authority and opportunities for democratization of evidence. The presentation will conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for the field of educational research-practice partnerships and how these partnerships can be structured to promote a more democratic evidence system.