How to build an effective research network: lessons from two decades of the GARNet plant science community

Geraint Parry, Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, Daniel J Gibbs, Murray Grant, Andrea Harper, C Jill Harrison, Eirini Kaiserli, Sabina Leonelli, Sean May, Sarah McKim, Steven Spoel, Colin Turnbull, Renier A L van der Hoorn, James Murray

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Abstract

Successful collaborative research is dependent on excellent ideas and innovative experimental approaches, as well as the provision of appropriate support networks. Collaboration requires venues, infrastructures, training facilities, and, perhaps most importantly, a sustained commitment to work together as a community. These activities do not occur without significant effort, yet can be facilitated and overseen by the leadership of a research network that has a clearly defined role to help build resources for their community. Over the past 20 years, this is a role that the UKRI-BBSRC-funded GARNet network has played in the support of the UK curiosity-driven, discovery-led plant science research community. This article reviews the lessons learnt by GARNet in the hope that they can inform the practical implementation of current and future research networks.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6881-6889
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Experimental Botany
Volume71
Issue number22
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Dec 2020

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© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology.

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