TY - JOUR
T1 - How to build an effective research network
T2 - lessons from two decades of the GARNet plant science community
AU - Parry, Geraint
AU - Benitez-Alfonso, Yoselin
AU - Gibbs, Daniel J
AU - Grant, Murray
AU - Harper, Andrea
AU - Harrison, C Jill
AU - Kaiserli, Eirini
AU - Leonelli, Sabina
AU - May, Sean
AU - McKim, Sarah
AU - Spoel, Steven
AU - Turnbull, Colin
AU - van der Hoorn, Renier A L
AU - Murray, James
N1 - © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology.
PY - 2020/12/31
Y1 - 2020/12/31
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1093/jxb/eraa397
DO - 10.1093/jxb/eraa397
M3 - Article
C2 - 32898228
SN - 0022-0957
VL - 71
SP - 6881
EP - 6889
JO - Journal of Experimental Botany
JF - Journal of Experimental Botany
IS - 22
ER -