Course: Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges

A key ambition of transdisciplinary research (TDR) is to help society cope with societal challenges. TDR is not, however, the magic bullet for all societal challenges, but specifically designed for …

The research design of the study BESTandermatt was described in Week 3. This article aims at describing the co-production of various forms of knowledge using a transdisciplinary research (TDR) design. …

Transdisciplinarity concerns the joint production of knowledge for societal change among scientists and non-academic people. This raises a question about the purpose or the values of such a process of …

Congratulations on having finished the course ‘Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges’! In the last six weeks you plunged into the world of transdisciplinarity, where you learned about …

The study accompanying the long-term changes a new large-scale resort brings to the Swiss mountain village of Andermatt will be finalised in 2020. How do residents and political authorities gauge …

While setting up his transdisciplinary project, Dr. Didier Wernli and his research group faced several challenges. These included, for example, short timelines, differing expectations between stakeholders, and the combination of …

The career paths of transdisciplinary researchers are diverse and often unpredictable. In this video, Flurina Schneider and Christian Pohl let us know about their first encounter with transdisciplinarity, their early …

Evaluating transdisciplinary research (TDR) projects is not an easy task. They include several perspectives and a range of possible outcomes, outputs, and impacts. To tackle this challenge, this video proposes …

Transdisciplinary co-creation is normally based on face-to-face communication and concerns micro-levels of social organisation. The co-creation of knowledge is successful to the degree it triggers a social learning process resulting …

A lot of developments regarding the global governance of antimicrobial resistance took place in recent years. It is yet difficult to understand the ‘anatomy’ of the current regime complex addressing …

Jijiga University (JJU) in the Somali regional state built up a One Health initiative, aimed at addressing health issues in mobile pastoralist communities. The organisation process is a case study …

Nepali migrant workers in Delhi, India, face rough conditions. A researcher and an NGO developed a project to address this problem. In this video, Prof. Dr. Susan Thieme explains how …

From a theoretical point of view, transdisciplinary projects are split in three distinct phases: The phases of ‘Problem framing’, ‘Jointly conducting research’, and ‘Exploring the impact’. During the coming weeks, …

How should we define transdisciplinary research (TDR)? This video addresses goals and principles that are used to attain a working definition. As it was developed in several fields, there is …

Andermatt is a Swiss mountain village. When one of the main opportunities for income disappeared, its economy declined. This case study addresses how the people coped with the solution for …