Campus Units
Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
10-10-2018
Journal or Book Title
BioScience
DOI
10.1093/biosci/biy118
Abstract
We develop a transdisciplinary deliberative model that moves beyond traditional scientific collaborations to include nonscientists in designing complexity-oriented research. We use the case of declining honey bee health as an exemplar of complex real-world problems requiring cross-disciplinary intervention. Honey bees are important pollinators of the fruits and vegetables we eat. In recent years, these insects have been dying at alarming rates. To prompt the reorientation of research toward the complex reality in which bees face multiple challenges, we came together as a group, including beekeepers, farmers, and scientists. Over a two-year period, we deliberated about how to study the problem of honey bee deaths and conducted field experiments with bee colonies. We show trust and authority to be crucial factors shaping such collaborative research, and we offer a model for structuring collaboration that brings scientists and nonscientists together with the key objects and places of their shared concerns across time.
Copyright Owner
The Authors
Copyright Date
2018
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Suryanarayanan, Sainath; Kleinman, Daniel Lee; Gratton, Claudio; Toth, Amy; Guedot, Christelle; Groves, Russell; Piechowski, John; Moore, Brad; Hagedorn, Deborah; Kauth, Dayton; Swan, Heather; and Celley, Mary, "Collaboration Matters: Honey Bee Health as a Transdisciplinary Model for Understanding Real-World Complexity" (2018). Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology Publications. 303.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/eeob_ag_pubs/303
Included in
Apiculture Commons, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, Research Methods in Life Sciences Commons
Comments
This is a manuscript of an article published as Suryanarayanan, Sainath, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Claudio Gratton, Amy Toth, Christelle Guedot, Russell Groves, John Piechowski et al. "Collaboration matters: Honey bee health as a transdisciplinary model for understanding real-world complexity." BioScience (2018). doi: 10.1093/biosci/biy118. Posted with permission.