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I've been quite lucky
to work with people

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from a variety of
different backgrounds,

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mostly just one other person,
or one or two other people

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in the same institution.

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And typically, that would be
working across disciplines

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as well.

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And that was really helpful
because you get sort

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of the alternative perspective.

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And so you can come
at these things--

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the issues that we're
interested in from slightly

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different angles.

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And things that seem
very obvious to someone

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working in one discipline
are not quite so clear

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for someone else.

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So you can make
sure that you've got

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the idea as clear as possible.

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It's also advantageous
because you sort of,

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on a practical level, you
build in automatic breaks

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from working on a
particular paper.

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So you have to
stop looking at it

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while your colleague is
looking at the paper,

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and then when you come back to
it, you see it with fresh eyes.

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So it's helpful, both in
terms of academic input,

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but also in terms of
sort of practical working,

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because you have to step back
from it sometimes and see

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how they're interpreting it.

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So you get that built
in feedback, which

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is really helpful, I think.

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We shared data quite informally
because I work in philosophy

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and theoretical bioethics,

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So there isn't qualitative or
quantitative data to store.

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So what we were
looking at is more just

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sharing versions of the document
with each other via email

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or online storage systems.

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Possibly that was just
unique to the collaborations

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that I've been involved in,

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but I think it's
fairly straightforward

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when you're working on
more theoretical work.

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And version control,
rather than data storage,

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is the main issue because
you have to make sure

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that you're both looking at
the same draft of the paper

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when you're saying, page
17 needs to be changed,

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or something like that.

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We were very lucky, with
the collaborations.

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I've been quite lucky
throughout my career, I think,

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in that my collaborators
have typically

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been either in the
same university,

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or sometimes in
the same building.

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So, it's been very
straightforward.

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It hasn't really been an
issue in terms of hiring

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people or anything like that.

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So it's more a case
of, if there were

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any complications,
it was mostly making

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sure our schedules lined up.

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So, sometimes we'd be
travelling for work,

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and it's oh no I can't look at
it this week, because I'm here,

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but I'll get it
to you that week.

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Or, this is the deadline,
oh, can we change it?

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So it's fairly
straightforward and quite easy,

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generally speaking.