Expertise
Definition¶
“A high level of knowledge or skill”
Definition source: Cambridge Dictionary (n.d.). expertise.
Stakes¶
part of: discrimination, opacity
related to: recruitment
Your expertise impacts what type of research you conduct and conclusions you draw.
Where does it occur in the lifecycle?¶
2 - Collection
3 - Process
Questions to consider throughout your work¶
- What skills and expertise does your research team possess? How does this impact the sources/data you are able to work with and the ways in which you process this data (e.g. knowledge of paleography or knowledge of a historical context might be necessary to work with certain kinds of sources)?
- Who is annotating your data? What is their expertise and how can this impact your data annotation?
Examples¶
Good-better-best practices¶
| Good | Better | Best |
|---|---|---|
| During Recruitment, ensure that employees’ expertise is fitting to the research. | Include Collaboration with partners with diverse expertise. These different perspectives will strengthen your research. | Look beyond academic expertise, and view experience and anecdote as valuable expertise as well. See Multivocality. |
| Consider all the stages in which you can collaborate with relevant experts, starting with the conceptualization of the research project. |
Resources¶
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