Sustainability Research, Practice and Role of Community Orientationn

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pravat Surya Kar
Keyword(s):  
Research Practice ◽  
Sustainability Research

scholarly journals Introduction: Sustainability Science as Co-Creative Research Praxis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
Alex Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Generative Process ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Creative Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Praxis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ways Of Being

AbstractThis chapter explores the relationship between collaboration and creativity within social sustainability research. Aimed at stimulating further reflection and debate on the role of ‘co-creativity’ in enabling transformative sustainability agendas, the chapter acts also as an introduction to the entire edited collection. A key guiding question posed from the outset is how co-creative research practice, as a generative process, can best support the emergence of alternative—potentially even transformative—ways of being in the world. The discussion proceeds with a conceptual review of creativity, followed by a detailed explanation of how co-creativity is defined for the purposes of this edited collection. The remainder of the chapter looks towards the nurturing of co-creative practice within social sustainability research; particular attention is given to socially inclusive forms of co-creative and engaged research praxis. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches that, through action and reflection, stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. Accordingly, emphasis is placed throughout this chapter on co-creative research practice as requiring a retained sensitivity to the importance of researching ‘with’.

scholarly journals Visuality Without Form: Video-Mediated Communication and Research Practice Across Disciplinary Contexts

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Cupitt ◽  
Per-Anders Forstorp ◽  
Ann Lantz
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Video Meeting ◽  
Television Producers

Visuality is a concept that crosses boundaries of practice and meaning, making it an ideal subject for interdisciplinary research. In this article, we discuss visuality using a fragment from a video meeting of television producers at Swedish Television’s group for programming in Swedish Sign Language. This example argues for the importance of recognizing the diversity of analytical and practice-derived visualities and their effect on the ways in which we interpret cultures. These different visualities have consequences for the methods and means with which we present scholarly research. The role of methods, methodology, and analysis of visual practices in an organizational and bilingual setting are key. We explore the challenges of incorporating deaf visualities, hearing visualities, and different paradigms of interdisciplinary research as necessary when visibility, invisibility, and their materialities are of concern. We conclude that in certain contexts, breaking with disciplinary traditions makes visible that which is otherwise invisible.

The laboratory life of a designer at the intersection with algal biotechnology

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marin Sawa
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Algal Biotechnology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Laboratory Life

Scientific laboratories are increasingly becoming a collaborative place to design in an emergent biodesign practice, yet there is very little literature on the actual place and practice. This paper describes an empirical account of a laboratory-based, interdisciplinary design research practice, exploring the intersection with algal biotechnology. Aimed at generating multiple applications of microalgae, the author spent 3 years (2012-2015) working in close collaboration with algal scientists in their research laboratories at Imperial College London. It expounds on the laboratory space and facilities and discusses collaborative experimentation with the intersectional outcome: Algae Printing. It reports that the sum of resultant biotechnological artefacts are scientific, aesthetic, and ecosophical with potential for the domestication of algal biotechnology. It reflects on the interdisciplinary collaborative practice with literature reviews and addresses suggestions for future practices. The main finding is that the integration of a designer into the laboratory life can lead to co-invention and that a role of designer in early stages of scientific research can be demonstrated.

Introduction: Psychiatric Research and Extraordinary Science

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Psychiatric Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research Domain Criteria ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Research Domain

This chapter introduces the core thematic ideas of the present volume: that psychiatric research is in crisis, that it has entered a period of extraordinary science, and that a fully adequate response to the crisis should be responsive to the perspectives and interests of persons. We identify various sources of the crisis, drawing special attention to controversies concerning the role of the DSM in psychiatric research. And, we identify different strategies of response to the current crisis, including approaches that emphasize the importance of personal perspectives and the needs of the clinic and those that emphasize the important role of various scientific research programs. Further, we survey various developments (e.g., debates over fundamentals and a role for philosophical analysis, probing of the problems of the DSM framework, relaxation of standard forms of research practice, the introduction of the Research Domain Criteria initiative and other novel research programs) that are jointly suggestive of Thomas Kuhn’s characterization of periods of crisis that can arise in scientific research and of the “extraordinary science” that ensues. We suggest that this Kuhnian framework is useful for understanding the state of psychiatric research and it provides a framework for thinking about responses to the current crisis. We conclude with brief overviews of the contributions to the volume, each of which provides such a response.

Supply Chain Management in Retailing Business

2017 ◽  
pp. 197-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasin Galip Gencer
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Retail Management ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Challenging Environment ◽  
Retailing Business

Supply chain management is receiving increased attention as means of becoming competitive in a globally challenging environment. As its use is rising in several businesses, we have focused on SCM in retailing business. The concept of ethics has become more critical for companies. In this paper, ethics and sustainability in retailing are also examined. Sustainability has received more attention in retail management. Sustainability related issues have been discussed for many years and the term sustainability has received increased attention in research since the last two decade. This paper brings an overview of past and current sustainability research in retail applications for examining retailing and sustainability relevance. The paper considers role of retailers in supply chains through an extensive analysis of sustainability examinations in different research areas relevant to retail supply chains. Ultimately, the study is exampled from retailing businesses and it is concluded by further discussions.

Reflexive Qualitative Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Luttrell
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
Research Relationships ◽  
Collective Ethos

Reflexivity can be regarded as part of a continuous research practice. Qualitative researchers work within and across social differences (e.g., cultural, class, race, gender, generation) and this requires them to navigate different layers of self-awareness—from unconscious to semiconscious to fully conscious. Because researchers can be aware on one level but not on others, reflexivity is facilitated by using an eclectic and expansive toolkit for examining the role of the researcher, researcher-researched relationships, power, privilege, emotions, positionalities, and different ways of seeing. Over the past fifty years, there has been a progression of reflexive practice as well as disciplinary debates about how much self-awareness and transparency are enough and how much is too much. The shift can be traced from the early practitioners of ethnography who did not reflect on their positions, power or feelings (or at least make these reflections public), to those who acknowledged that their emotions could be both revealing and distorting, to those who interrogated their multiple positionalities (mostly in terms of the blinders of Western/race/class/gender/generation), to those calling for the mixing and blurring of different genres of representation as important tools of reflexivity. Reflexivity is not a solitary process limited to critical self-awareness, but derives from a collective ethos and humanizes rather than objectifies research relationships and the knowledge that is created.

scholarly journals Towards a relational paradigm in sustainability research, practice, and education

AMBIO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zack Walsh ◽  
Jessica Böhme ◽  
Christine Wamsler
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Relational Thinking ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
Relational Paradigm

AbstractRelational thinking has recently gained increasing prominence across academic disciplines in an attempt to understand complex phenomena in terms of constitutive processes and relations. Interdisciplinary fields of study, such as science and technology studies (STS), the environmental humanities, and the posthumanities, for example, have started to reformulate academic understanding of nature-cultures based on relational thinking. Although the sustainability crisis serves as a contemporary backdrop and in fact calls for such innovative forms of interdisciplinary scholarship, the field of sustainability research has not yet tapped into the rich possibilities offered by relational thinking. Against this background, the purpose of this paper is to identify relational approaches to ontology, epistemology, and ethics which are relevant to sustainability research. More specifically, we analyze how relational approaches have been understood and conceptualized across a broad range of disciplines and contexts relevant to sustainability to identify and harness connections and contributions for future sustainability-related work. Our results highlight common themes and patterns across relational approaches, helping to identify and characterize a relational paradigm within sustainability research. On this basis, we conclude with a call to action for sustainability researchers to co-develop a research agenda for advancing this relational paradigm within sustainability research, practice, and education.

scholarly journals The role of patient and public involvement in oral health and HIV/AIDS research, practice and policy

Oral Diseases ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. 117-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaishali Sharma Mahendra ◽  
Amitha Ranauta ◽  
Anandi Yuvraj ◽  
Anthony J. Santella ◽  
Aditia Taslim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Patient And Public Involvement ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Aids Research ◽  
Hiv Aids
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