Workshop 10: Realising and Supporting Collaboration in e-Research

Organisers: Alex Voss, Rob Procter, Meik Poschen (University of Manchester, UK), Tom Rodden (University of Nottingham, UK), Gary Olson (University of Michigan, US), Roger Slack (University of Wales, Bangor, UK), Mark Hartswood (University of Edinburgh), Marina Jirotka, Annamaria Carusi (Oxford University, UK), Steffen Budweg (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)

Workshop overview:
Over the last six years, the UK e-Science Programme, the Cyberinfrastructure programme in the US and similar intiatives in other countries have been key in establishing the vision of e-Research and securing significant funding for work aiming to establish sophisticated, ubiquitous e-infrastructures for research. More recently, e-Research has started to move from the development of basic technologies (like the Grid) and early demonstrators to more routine practice and the range of research disciplines taking up e-Research approaches has widened and now includes social science and arts & humanities research. It is at this point, where the focus shifts to the accomplishment of e-Research as a routine undertaking, that issues to do with collaboration in e-Research come to the fore. Many of these issues, e.g., supporting remote or distributed collaboration, understanding the social dimensions of collaboration and technology use, building collaborative applications and environments have been key research areas for the CSCW community over the years, placing it in a unique position to contribute methodological, conceptual and practical insights in support of the e-Research endeavour. The workshop will contribute to our evolving understanding of how e- Research endeavours get realised.

Who should attend: This full-day workshop will be of interest to people who would like to see the CSCW community play a stronger role in e-Research programmes. It will also be of interest to people building virtual research environments (aka. cyberenvironments or science gateways) or are studying e-Research activities from a CSCW perspective.
In order to allow for it to be very discussion-focused, we would like to limit the number of attendees to 10-15 (in addition to the organisers).

More info at: http://www.e-researchcommunity.org/news/ecscw2007.html

Dissemination: We expect the outcome of the workshop to be a concrete plan for a better utilisation of the lessons of CSCW research in e-Research Endeavours. This may involve plans for training events such as Summer Schools or developing ways in which CSCW knowledge can be brought to bear in e-Research projects. The workshop organisers have a track record of studying collaboration in e-Research and, through their various affiliations, can guarantee that the workshop outcomes are widely disseminated and taken seriously by the e-Research community.
We will also be looking at disseminating workshop outcomes through a journal special issue. Details of this will be posted on the workshop website (see above) prior to the event.

Submissions: We would like to ask participants to submit 2-page position statements by the 27th of July 2007 by sending a PDF or Word file to alex.voss[[AT]]ncess.ac.uk.