Paper Info
Title
Building a Research-Practice Partnership: Lessons from a Government IT Workforce Study
Abstract
For decades researchers have sought ways to make their work have more impact on the world and practitioners have wished for research that actually helps them solve pressing problems. This is particularly true for digital government research which emphasizes positive change. Differences in professional culture and lack of mutual understanding about the nature and uses of research lead to this gap. A few studies have outlined ways to bring research and practice closer together in mutually useful ways. This paper describes the development and operation of a research-practice partnership focused on a skills assessment of a government IT workforce. It illustrates how these two communities can collaborate to conduct rigorous research that is also readily usable. The advantages are considerable for both rigor and relevance, but there are also significant costs associated with working in this way.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/HICSS.2007.116
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
research-practice partnership,professional culture,digital government research,mutual understanding,government it workforce,positive change,rigorous research,significant cost,government it workforce study,decades researcher,research lead,human factors
USable,Public relations,Computer science,Workforce,Digital government,Knowledge management,General partnership,Government
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2755-8
2
0.56
References 
Authors
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sharon S. Dawes141841.86
Natalie Helbig216114.72