Reflection on a partnership research project: Interview with Jean-Pierre Revéret
How can we ensure that our work as researchers is useful? Despite the growing institutionalization of the ways in which scientific knowledge is articulated in research, an “institutional epistemology” is structuring academic research according to which researchers may not act based on the constructive (or transformative) properties they produce. This scientific autonomy represents at once an important condition for a type of research that is not reduced to its instrumental virtues and a challenge for partnership research projects. Starting from an account given by a researcher whose intellectual and professional trajectory sheds light on the fundamental challenges of joint research, our article looks in particular at ways of overcoming tensions (epistemological, political, etc.) that put joint research to the test while at the same time as constituting that test.