Understanding what makes for a successful collaboration is vital to achieving positive research outcomes in design research. We are all professional researchers, but sometimes, we have to be more than just researchers to achieve great collaborations. Today, Qin and Paulien from Stby are looking into three personal stories about what roles (other than a researcher) would help us reach the next level of design research collaboration. --- Key moments --- 00:00 Welcome to our first episode 00:46 Who are Qin and Paulien? 04:18 Story 1. the research coordinator story 12:00 Story 2. the research teacher story 22:20 Story 3. the research thinking partner story --- More info --- If you are interested in finding out more about the roles you can take to make better collaboration in design research, check out our publication on Five Design Research roles enabling Agile Collaboration.