Great! You have completed Week 3, gaining further expertise in transdisciplinary research projects (TDR). How is TDR carried out? In this week, we went into the phases and steps of …
The transdisciplinary MontanAqua project was part of a Swiss national research programme on sustainable water management that aimed at solving problems of national importance through coordinated research efforts. The main …
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) generally aims to contribute to solving, mitigating, or preventing various societal challenges. It assumes that collaboration between various scientific disciplines and societal actors is a precondition to …
Although there is no standardised procedure for co-producing knowledge in transdisciplinary research, there are methods and tools to deal with particular challenges. Several online toolboxes compile such tools, such as …
Societal challenges involve a multitude of actors with different roles, interests, and power. Understanding these constellations is an important basis for transdisciplinary research (TDR) projects. It is also a prerequisite …
To structure transdisciplinary research (TDR) projects, it is helpful to think in phases. Each phase has specific questions to ask and tasks with which to deal. We structure the TDR …
What is transdisciplinary research (TDR)? What are its goals and principles and when is it applicable? In Week 2, TDR is described as an approach to address complex societal challenges …
In the first week, the BESTandermatt study was introduced. Although research on the socio-cultural impact of tourism was instituted in the 1970s, few empirical studies have been published on this …
The issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crosses national boundaries, several sectors (eg human health, animal health, trade, and the environment), and scales of organisation (eg from local to international levels). …
There are various reasons why international labour migration has become an increasingly important source of income in Nepal. Indeed, in 2013, the official total amount of remittance was recorded as …
With transdisciplinary research (TDR) we try to link two processes (see the two bold arrows in the diagram below). The arrow on the right side stands for society handling sustainability …
As we have explored in the previous steps, transdisciplinary research (TDR) is a very promising approach when it comes to addressing complex societal challenges. However, transdisciplinary approaches are not for …
There are many different definitions of transdisciplinary research (TDR), as TDR has been developed in different contexts and for different purposes. In US health research, for instance, transdisciplinarity means to …
An intensive week draws to its close. We would like to congratulate you on your achievements – there were quite a few! In the first week of our course, we …
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) is in itself a complex endeavour. However, theory and methodology are best illustrated with examples. Our course, thus, uses cases to this end. It presents TDR as …