Strand, Mia;
Ortega-Cisneros, Kelly;
Niner, Holly J;
Wahome, Michel;
Bell, James;
Currie, Jock C;
Hamukuaya, Hashali;
... Winkler, Alexander; + view all
(2022)
Transdisciplinarity in transformative ocean governance research-reflections of early career researchers.
ICES Journal of Marine Science
10.1093/icesjms/fsac165.
(In press).
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Abstract
This paper interrogates the concept of transdisciplinarity, both theoretically and practically, from a perspective of early career researchers (ECRs) in transformative ocean governance research. Aiming to advance research methodologies for future complex sustainability challenges, the paper seeks to illuminate some common uncertainties and challenges surrounding transdisciplinarity from a marine science perspective. Following a literature review on transdisciplinary research, workshops, and a series of surveys, we determine that transdisciplinarity appears to be a concept in search of definition, and that there is a need to explore transdisciplinarity specifically from an ocean research perspective. The paper discusses a number of challenges experienced by ECRs in conducting transdisciplinary research and provides recommendations for both ECRs wishing to undertake more equitable transdisciplinary research and for the UN Decade for Ocean Science to support ECRs in this endeavour (Figure 1). Based on our findings, we interrogate the role of non-academic collaborators in transdisciplinary research and argue that future transdisciplinarity will need to address power imbalances in existing research methods to achieve knowledge co-production, as opposed to knowledge integration.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Transdisciplinarity in transformative ocean governance research-reflections of early career researchers |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/icesjms/fsac165 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac165 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Physical Sciences, Fisheries, Marine & Freshwater Biology, Oceanography, early career researchers, knowledge co-production, non-academic collaborators, sustainable development, transdisciplinarity, transformative ocean governance, MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, PUBLIC-PARTICIPATION, COMMUNITY, KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10156350 |
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