A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Evaluating transdisciplinary research practices: insights from social network analysis
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7492-8635
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3482-1822
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2690-0907
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7483-5380
Transdisciplinary researchers collaborate with diverse partners outside of academia to tackle sustainability problems. The patterns and practices of social interaction and the contextual nature of transdisciplinary research result in different performance expectations than traditional, curiosity-driven research. Documenting patterns of interaction can inform project success and affirm progress toward interim outcomes on the way to achieve sustainability impacts. Yet providing credible and robust indicators of research activity remains challenging. We provide quantitative and qualitative indicators for assessing transdisciplinary practices and patterns through social network analysis (SNA). Our assessment developed four criteria to reveal how SNA metrics provide insight into (1) diversity of participants; (2) whether and how integration and collaboration are occurring, (3) the relative degrees of network stability and fragility, and (4) how the network is structured to achieve its goals. These four key criteria can be used to help identify patterns of research activity and determine whether interim progress is occurring.
Evaluating transdisciplinary research practices: insights from social network analysis
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7492-8635
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3482-1822
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2690-0907
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7483-5380
Transdisciplinary researchers collaborate with diverse partners outside of academia to tackle sustainability problems. The patterns and practices of social interaction and the contextual nature of transdisciplinary research result in different performance expectations than traditional, curiosity-driven research. Documenting patterns of interaction can inform project success and affirm progress toward interim outcomes on the way to achieve sustainability impacts. Yet providing credible and robust indicators of research activity remains challenging. We provide quantitative and qualitative indicators for assessing transdisciplinary practices and patterns through social network analysis (SNA). Our assessment developed four criteria to reveal how SNA metrics provide insight into (1) diversity of participants; (2) whether and how integration and collaboration are occurring, (3) the relative degrees of network stability and fragility, and (4) how the network is structured to achieve its goals. These four key criteria can be used to help identify patterns of research activity and determine whether interim progress is occurring.
Evaluating transdisciplinary research practices: insights from social network analysis
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7492-8635
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3482-1822
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2690-0907
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7483-5380
Transdisciplinary researchers collaborate with diverse partners outside of academia to tackle sustainability problems. The patterns and practices of social interaction and the contextual nature of transdisciplinary research result in different performance expectations than traditional, curiosity-driven research. Documenting patterns of interaction can inform project success and affirm progress toward interim outcomes on the way to achieve sustainability impacts. Yet providing credible and robust indicators of research activity remains challenging. We provide quantitative and qualitative indicators for assessing transdisciplinary practices and patterns through social network analysis (SNA). Our assessment developed four criteria to reveal how SNA metrics provide insight into (1) diversity of participants; (2) whether and how integration and collaboration are occurring, (3) the relative degrees of network stability and fragility, and (4) how the network is structured to achieve its goals. These four key criteria can be used to help identify patterns of research activity and determine whether interim progress is occurring.
Evaluating transdisciplinary research practices: insights from social network analysis
Sustain Sci
Steelman, T. (author) / Bogdan, A. (author) / Mantyka-Pringle, C. (author) / Bradford, L. (author) / Reed, M. G. (author) / Baines, S. (author) / Fresque-Baxter, J. (author) / Jardine, T. (author) / Shantz, S. (author) / Abu, R. (author)
Sustainability Science ; 16 ; 631-645
2021-03-01
15 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Early career researchers , Evaluation , Knowledge co-production , Social network analysis , Transdisciplinarity Environment , Environmental Management , Climate Change Management and Policy , Environmental Economics , Landscape Ecology , Sustainable Development , Public Health , Earth and Environmental Science
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