Self-reported Change in Research Capacity Following Participation in an Interdisciplinary Research Project, 2017-2021

This dataset was collected to investigate the personal perspectives of 56 researchers who took part in the international, interdisciplinary GCRF Blue Communities project. Researchers at all career stages came from the UK and four Southeast Asian countries, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines. One of the main goals of the project was to build mutual research capacity across research participants towards meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals and addressing challenges related to wellbeing, livelihoods and food security for coastal communities in the Southeast Asian countries. This dataset contains quantitative data, collected via an online survey, from a diverse group of researchers on the impact of the research capacity building activity in this project, which had taken the specific approach of ‘learning-by-doing’ to strengthen capacity.