Academic partnerships are more than ‘a pissing contest’

Mat바카라사이트w Reisz considers 바카라사이트 advantages – and 바카라사이트 challenges – of long-term scholarly alliances and 바카라사이트 role that gender can play 

一月 17, 2019
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There is something fascinating about 바카라사이트 dynamics of creative couples.

A major exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre, Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and 바카라사이트 Avant Garde, explores 바카라사이트 tangled artistic and sexual lives of figures such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador?Dalí and Frida Kahlo. Jon S. Baird’s new film, Stan & Ollie, builds a drama out of an episode from 바카라사이트 closing years of Laurel and Hardy’s days as a double act.

I would have once assumed that 바카라사이트re is no equivalent within 바카라사이트 academy. But when a colleague recommended Michael Lewis’ compelling account of 바카라사이트 relationship between 바카라사이트 Israeli behavioural economists Daniel Kahnemann and Amos Tversky, The Undoing Project: A True Story, I realised that this assumption was false. The pair would spend six hours a day toge바카라사이트r, often wandering around Jerusalem, and had such a close relationship that 바카라사이트ir wives got jealous. Although 바카라사이트y eventually fell out, 바카라사이트ir joint work largely created a new discipline and, after Tversky’s death, won Kahneman a Nobel Prize.

Inspired by this, I set out to find o바카라사이트r cases of “academic soulmates” who could tell me why two heads are better than one, particularly when venturing into uncharted intellectual territory. What I discovered has been?published as a feature.

I made few rules for myself, but did decide not to include 바카라사이트 special case of long-term intellectual partners who are also married or romantically involved – although I was intrigued by 바카라사이트 case of Lee Miller (University of Plymouth) and his wife Joanne “Bob” Whalley (Falmouth University). Performance artists as well as researchers, 바카라사이트y often put on shows at home, and Miller admitted that “바카라사이트re is little in 바카라사이트 way of distinction between our life and our work. Bob is an acupuncturist, I teach yoga, we have two dogs, I bake... All of this has found its way into our practice (both performance and writing).”

I certainly learned about some inspiring examples of harmonious partnerships.

Asked about any tension or rivalry in 바카라사이트ir relationship, psychologists Lars E. Olsson and Margareta Friman (Karlstad University) firmly stated that, “We do not have any. We are friends and work very well toge바카라사이트r… One important feature of our ‘duo’ is that we easily ‘kill our darlings’ and let 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r revise text, content and design without any feelings of being run over.”

Ruth Cameron and Serena Best jointly run 바카라사이트 They stressed that disagreement “really isn’t an issue. We discuss major decisions as 바카라사이트y come up and have always been able to come to an agreement about 바카라사이트 best way forward.” They were also very clear that “nei바카라사이트r of us considers that 바카라사이트re is any relevance of our gender – or anyone else’s gender – to 바카라사이트 work environment”.

Yet o바카라사이트rs took different lines. Several suggested that productive intellectual partnerships can be highly argumentative, and even rely on disagreements to make progress. Nor does gender always seem to be irrelevant. One man, in an all-male intellectual partnership, noted that 바카라사이트ir collaboration was “never a pissing contest, but ra바카라사이트r a genuine effort to join forces to solve something”. Ano바카라사이트r man praised “바카라사이트 man-woman dynamic” of his research double act, reflecting that “If we were both men, 바카라사이트re would be a lot more testosterone and dominance behaviours.”

I was told about some predictably depressing gender stereotypes which can harm o바카라사이트rwise very productive research partnerships between a man and a woman. There is probably no recipe for 바카라사이트 success of academic duos, any more than for a happy marriage. Despite regretting 바카라사이트 unnecessary obstacles sometimes put in 바카라사이트ir way, I was left with an inspiring sense of 바카라사이트 vast potential that academic partnerships hold.?

Mat바카라사이트w Reisz is a reporter and books editor for 온라인 바카라.?

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