Characteristics of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and engaged research among graduate students in environmental conservation

摘要: Research that is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and engaged with non-university partners has emerged as desirable for training graduate students to address complex issues in natural resource management. However, there a lack of understanding regarding why researchers may participate various forms collaborative research, especially among environmental conservation. We explored students’ research experiences the characteristics attitudes associated two specific types collaboration: interdisciplinary collaboration research. surveyed 56 who were affiliated University Wisconsin-Madison’s Integrative Graduate Education Training (IGERT) program on biodiversity conservation under novel ecosystems. investigated differences between different categories logistic regression decision tree analysis using classification (CRT) algorithm. Students more collaborators likely feel supported by an intellectual community view vital practice. be comfortable collaborating peers but less contributing their non-academics faculty concerned becoming policy or practice negatively impact them. Of ten instances which variables significant across three regressions, eight also identified CRT model. This suggests relatively high agreement statistical approaches. The had predictors should not viewed interchangeable. Further attention needed approaches enhancing experience