A practical guide to cross-cultural and multi-sited data collection in the biological and behavioural sciences.

Autor: Spake L; Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY, USA., Hassan A; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK., Schaffnit SB; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA., Alam N; International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh., Amoah AS; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.; Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit, Lilongwe, Malawi.; Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands., Badjie J; Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MRCG@LSHTM), Fajara, The Gambia., Cerami C; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.; Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MRCG@LSHTM), Fajara, The Gambia., Crampin A; International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh.; University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK., Dube A; Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit, Lilongwe, Malawi., Kaye MP; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA., Kotch R; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA., Liew F; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK., McLean E; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.; Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit, Lilongwe, Malawi., Munthali-Mkandawire S; Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit, Lilongwe, Malawi., Mwalwanda L; Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit, Lilongwe, Malawi., Petersen AC; University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand., Prentice AM; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.; Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MRCG@LSHTM), Fajara, The Gambia., Zohora FT; International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh., Watts J; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.; University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand., Sear R; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK., Shenk MK; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA., Sosis R; University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA., Shaver JH; University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.; Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Proceedings. Biological sciences [Proc Biol Sci] 2024 Apr 30; Vol. 291 (2021), pp. 20231422. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 24.
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1422
Abstrakt: Researchers in the biological and behavioural sciences are increasingly conducting collaborative, multi-sited projects to address how phenomena vary across ecologies. These types of projects, however, pose additional workflow challenges beyond those typically encountered in single-sited projects. Through specific attention to cross-cultural research projects, we highlight four key aspects of multi-sited projects that must be considered during the design phase to ensure success: (1) project and team management; (2) protocol and instrument development; (3) data management and documentation; and (4) equitable and collaborative practices. Our recommendations are supported by examples from our experiences collaborating on the Evolutionary Demography of Religion project, a mixed-methods project collecting data across five countries in collaboration with research partners in each host country. To existing discourse, we contribute new recommendations around team and project management, introduce practical recommendations for exploring the validity of instruments through qualitative techniques during piloting, highlight the importance of good documentation at all steps of the project, and demonstrate how data management workflows can be strengthened through open science practices. While this project was rooted in cross-cultural human behavioural ecology and evolutionary anthropology, lessons learned from this project are applicable to multi-sited research across the biological and behavioural sciences.
Databáze: MEDLINE