Contribution to Book
Chapter 10: The Need to be a Leader of Research in the United States: Take the Risk and Move Beyond Your Opponents
Researchers at Risk: Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia
(2021)
Abstract
This chapter is designed to explore how researchers, when conducting sensitive inquiries, could face many risks within an institution of higher education, a research think tank, or other agency. Researchers need to take on more of a leadership role when conducting studies that might be too risky for others, while other complacent researchers explore repetitive and irrelevant issues. Researchers need to explore many leadership methodological philosophies to have the ability to know that leaders take risks, while non-leaders remain as status quo of life.
In the case of status quo researchers, they remain within a safe course of action and never address some of the most important, yet sensitive, issues, which are problems facing organisations, communities, and even possible medical breakthroughs. If researchers combine leadership strategies with research, they will find the importance of taking risks. In business, when leaders take risks, they find ways to be innovative and to find solutions to being creative and advancing in their vision, while being ahead of their competition. If researchers mirrored this philosophy, they would advance their competitive edge in possible grant proposals, uncover solutions to problems facing our societies, politics, and world events, and not hesitate regarding any considerations for research (e.g., narcissistic behaviour, mobbing and bullying, gender issues).
Keywords
- Reputation,
- Sensitive Topics,
- Risk-taking,
- Sensitive Research,
- Curiousity,
- Conflict
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter January, 2021
Editor
Deborah L. Mulligan and Patrick Alan Danaher
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Publishing
ISBN
978-3-030-53856-9
Citation Information
David B. Ross, Gina L. Peyton, Vanaja Nethi and Melissa T. Sasso. "Chapter 10: The Need to be a Leader of Research in the United States: Take the Risk and Move Beyond Your Opponents" London Borough of CamdenResearchers at Risk: Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia (2021) p. 147 - 164 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david-ross/111/