The Australian Traveller Education Research Team: one strategy for organising academic research and publishing

Abstract

We seek in this paper to reflect briefly on one example of the informal collaborations in which we are involved directly: the Australian Traveller education research team. Our research team and all the others like it encapsulate the seemingly increasingly threatened possibilities and safeguards for achieving research and publishing outcomes in contemporary universities. If those outcomes are to be productive, sustainable and hopefully beneficial for the multiple stakeholders with their convergent and competing interests identified above – particularly the research participants – strategies of this kind would appear to be among our best hopes for bringing such outcomes about.