Course: Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges

Transdisciplinary research is challenging since it involves many different stakeholder groups, which might have completely different interests in the research. These stakeholder groups may have different values, and power inequities …

Transdisciplinary research (TDR) projects aim to contribute solutions that help to overcome societal challenges. At the same time they intend to advance science. The third phase of TDR ‘Jointly exploring …

In Week 4 we described the co-production of various forms of knowledge using a transdisciplinary research (TDR) design, which links the production of scientific knowledge with the solution of societal …

The main output of this inter- and transdisciplinary research project was the production of two reports for the United Nations Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (IACG-AMR). Our work fed …

In the first phase of the Jigjiga University One Health Initiative (JOHI), we trained young scientists in the fields of public and animal health, nutrition, water and sanitation, and rangeland …

Migrants in Delhi have found social and economic niches, but they became even more marginalised within these niches. The main objective of the project was to build on migrants’ capacities …

Transdisciplinary research (TDR) projects generate an important part of their outcomes and impact directly with the project teams and partners. Nevertheless, the question of how to extend the awareness about …

How can scientists from different disciplines and societal actors interact to co-produce relevant knowledge? All agents should jointly conduct research. This is the main task in the second phase of …

The research project had both important interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dimensions. Diversity of backgrounds was critical to provide relevant information about the current and future engagement of involved organisations. Regarding the …

The overarching aim of the Jigjiga University One Health Initiative (JOHI) is to improve the health and well-being of mobile pastoralists and agro-pastoralists and their animals in the Somali Region …

Cooperation with stakeholders from a wide range of societal sectors is a central element of transdisciplinary research (TDR). Designing and conducting cooperation in a way that is meaningful for all …

To engage in an interdisciplinary process of knowledge co-production is to defend the idea and to accept that knowledge, concepts, theories, and methods are not only fixed in incommensurable scientific …

Interdisciplinary work is a complex process that capitalises on the theoretical and methodological skills of several disciplines while involving them in a dynamic of dialogue and transformation. Each discipline can …

Co-production of knowledge – or also co-design or co-creation – is a key characteristic of transdisciplinary research (TDR). Co-production represents an intense degree of interaction, where all involved partners contribute …