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INTERNATIONALISATION OF THE SOCIAL
SCIENCES
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Dear colleague,
With your kind support the attached questionnaire tries to collect some data
about how academics in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) are responding
to the internationalisation of all spheres of life.
This questionnaire will be distributed to SSH academics in Turkey. The
collection of data is part of an EU-funded project (ESSHRA Project), which
wants to help improving international research collaborations between the
research communities in Turkey and the EU. If you are interested in the project
you can find more information under
http://esshra.tubitak.gov.tr
Needless to say, that the questionnaire is anonymous.
If you wish to make any comment on the questionnaire or the project as a whole
please contact us via e-mail:
Dr. Michael KUHN
michaelkuhn@knowwhy.net
H. Tugba EROL
tugba.erol@tubitak.gov.tr
If you could please complete and submit
this questionnaire, we should be most grateful for your kind support of our
project.
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Background Variables
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Questions
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1. What
are your objectives to create new knowledge through social science
research activities?
(Please tick only the answer with your highest
preference. If none of the 8 optional answers reflect your opinion, you
can also use the “other” section and write your own answer.)
To create new knowledge through social science
research activities....
*if other please specify
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2. Do your scholarly activities imply
any international activities like
international conferences, study visits in other countries, transnational
research activities or any other international components?
* If your answer was "No", do you plan to
increase your international scholarly activities in the future?
* If your answer was "No" please continue with question 19.
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3. What are the proportions of your
international and non-international
scholarly activities?
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4. Your international scholarly
activities mainly consist of the following activities:
Please indicate also the estimated proportions of the
below activities (100/75/50/25/less than 25)
If you ticked on "0" under
"Transnational research activities" and if you also do NOT plan to carry out
transnational research activities in the future, please continue with
question 19.
If you ticked on "0" under
"Transnational research activities", but if you do plan to carry out
transnational research activities in the future, please continue with
question 5.
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5. What are your
specific motivations for transnational research
activities?
Please tick only the one with your highest preference.
My specific motivations for transnational research activities
are....
*if other please specify
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6. About which
regions/countries did you carry out transnational research?
Please tick the global regions firstly and then indicate the country/countries.
I have carried out transnational research about
the following global regions....
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7. About which
regions/countries do you plan to carry out transnational research in
the future?
Please tick the global regions firstly and
then indicate the country/countries.
I plan carry
out transnational research about the following global regions....
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8. What are the main topics or themes
of your transnational research activities you already carried out?
Please indicate the main themes of your
transnational research activities that you already carried out
and allocate your research topics or themes into disciplinary research areas.
(Please note: in interdisciplinary research projects please indicate
the major disciplinary research area)
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9. What are the main topics or themes
of your transnational research activities you plan to carry out in
the future?
Please indicate the main themes of your transnational
research activities that you plan to carry out
in the future and allocate your research topics or themes into
disciplinary research areas.
(Please note: in interdisciplinary research projects please indicate the major
disciplinary research area)
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10.
What are the proportions between your transnational
and other non transnational research
activities? Please estimate roughly.
Please note: in question 3, we asked you about the
proportions between your international and non-international overall
scholarly activities. This question 10 focuses only on
the proportions between your transnational and non-transnational
research activities.
If your answer in question 10. was "0" please
continue with question 19.
The following questions 11. to 18. can only be
answered if you have experiences in transnational research activities.
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11. Transnational research can be
defined as:
Type 1: Comparative
country studies, in which the unit of analysis is the comparison of nation
states
(Examples: The health care systems in France and China; or:
Education in Japan and the UK)
Type 2: Thematic
studies across countries, in which the unit of analysis are societal research
phenomena compared against the context of different nation states
(Examples: Job seeking strategies of low skilled people – a
comparative study in Asia and Europe; or: Acceptance of migrants – and
international comparison)
Type 3: Internationality studies,
in which the unit of analysis are the international dimensions of societal
research topics
(Examples: Impacts on concepts of knowledge in global
economies; or: Biographical studies of refugees)
The transnational research
activities you carry out do they:
In case the transnational research activities you
have carried out do not match with any of the above types of transnational
research, please describe briefly the type of transnational research you
conduct.
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12.
Do you carry out your transnational research activities....
Please tick one of the options.
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13. If your answer in question 12
was "in multinational research teams" or "both", from which
regions/countries do your international research partners originate?
Please tick the
global regions firstly and then specify the country/countries.
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14. In your transnational research
activities, to which phases of a research project do you contribute?
You can tick more than 1 options!
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15.
If you are involved in collecting data, do you collect data about
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16. If you are involved in analysing
and interpreting the data, do you analyse and interpret data originating from
your own or from other countries, or both?
Do you usually do the data analysis individually or collaboratively in a team
of researchers?
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17. If you are involved in publishing
the research findings, do you produce the publication of your research findings
in your mother language or in a foreign language?
Which language?
*if other please specify
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18. Who are the main users to which
your transnational research activities are targeted?
Please indicate the priority of each user group. The
highest priority is 1, the lowest 5.
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19. Do you think international
scholarly activities require distinctive research competencies?
* If yes, please evaluate the competencies presented below:
For each competency, please indicate its relative importance ranging
from 1 (highest) to 5.
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20. How did you
mainly gain your competencies for your international scholarly activities?
Through Higher Education or learning by doing?
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21. Improving international research
collaborations is mainly a matter of .....
(Please indicate the priority of each option. 1
highest priority - 3 middle - 5 lowest priority)
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22. To your awareness, are there
dedicated policy support activities in your country for transnational research
collaborations?
* If your answer is yes, please indicate the
importance of each support mechanism;
( 1 - most important, 3- important, 5-lowest importance) you consider as
important.
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23. Public funded research is playing
an ever increasing role also in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). Do
you think public funded research....
Please tick one of the options.
*if other please specify
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