Prof. Ayşe K. Üskül

In this talk, I will provide an overview of learned lessons and recommendations for international collaborative research based on our most recent experience of working on HONORLOGIC: a long-term, large-scale, collaborative project with researchers from the Mediterranean region, covering Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, and Egypt, as well as East Asia (Japan, Korea) and North America (the US, Canada). I will discuss how the project features challenged us to think about inclusivity, resource disparities (e.g., time, capacity, funding), replication, balance between feasibility and research quality, managing pandemic-related challenges, leadership, need for flexibility, and what it takes for research to go beyond the usual (WEIRD) settings on which psychological science is heavily based. The experiences I will share originates from a particular type of international collaboration which differs from most frequently engaged collaborations in psychological science which tend to be one-off, conducted in too large of a scale and thus impersonal.