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The term ‘collaboration’ has come to have positive connotations and this article explores the research partnership between the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and the Department of Education and Training (DET). The aim of the research is to determine the extent and nature of the significance of informal learning and its contribution to the performance of the organisation. The authors are themselves involved in this partnership and the purpose of this article is to identify some of the key features of successful collaboration from the perspective of researchers themselves. The article begins by discussing the contemporary context of collaborative research and looks at this form of research in relation to existing collaborative research models. The various reflexive practices that the authors used to explore the complexities of collaborative research are then described. The first is an analysis of the different layers of the collaborative relationship and this is followed by an analysis of some texts that have been produced during one of the layers of collaboration. The article concludes with a list of considerations that need to be taken into account in the conceptualisation of collaboration in research partnership. Show less