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Table 8 Facilitators and barriers of adaptive space creation and maintenance

From: Unscripted Responsible Research and Innovation: Adaptive space creation by an emerging RRI practice concerning juvenile justice interventions

 

Facilitators

Barriers

Intrapersonal

- Collaborative attitude.

- Commitment.

- Be flexible, in the sense of accepting restrictions and be pragmatic in the face of them. Stay in the present moment.

-Keep the action moving! Dare to be vulnerable and be proactive.

- No shared commitment.

- No willingness to be flexible.

- Living in the past/future.

- Waiting for the other to take initiative.

- Lack of willingness to accept risk.

Interpersonal

- Put the relationship central, by being empathetic (listening to the other and anticipate the other’s need), being generous (make things easy for the other by anticipating the other’s needs and by being easy to reach) and investing time in forging personal relationships (small talk, humour).

- Flexibility with respect to methodologies and changing circumstances.

- Informal negotiations of joint expectations.

- Researchers are difficult to get hold of.

- Lack of time invested in personal relationships.

- Feelings of entitlement, rather than generosity, e.g. expectation that the other will accommodate and anticipate your needs.

- Focus on educating the other, rather than listening to the other.

- Sticking to one’s own methodologies.

- Failure to let new routines emerge.

Institutional

- Informality over formality: preference for informal sense making, psychological contracts and personal interactions.

- The use of formality as life jackets.

- Focus on formal contracts to formally arrange adaptive space.

- Institutionalized academic/clinical ethics.

- Earmarked funding of research.

Physical

- Shared action space: to create familiarity and facilitate chance encounters in which on-going activities can be discussed.

- Heterogeneous partners that do not share a space (part-time or full-time).

- Interactions take place during formal focal points only.

- Lack of familiarity.