TRANS-disciplinary Research Through STS Practice

Session Submission Type: Open Panel

Abstract

STS has a key role in helping to create transdisciplinary research programmes that encourage collaboration and shared knowledge creation. Transdisciplinary research programmes are needed if we are to address the greatest challenges of our times, such as climate change. In attempting to understand the process of transdisciplinary research, we must first come to terms with different forms of knowledge. In the creation of transdisciplinary research programmes, such as the New Zealand Government’s National Science Challenges, what makes these collaborations effective, productive and satisfying programmes for all participants? How do different experiences and understandings of the world, such as indigenous knowledge and neoliberal governmentalities interact and co-exist in transdisciplinary research? How can pre-existing ideas (disciplinary concepts or policy) that may underpin transdisciplinary research be re-configured to respond to current social, economic and environmental issues? This panel seeks to explore how knowledge is co-created within transdisciplinary research through STS practice, and it seeks to examine the opportunities, challenges and the reality of engaging in transdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration to create meaningful change in our world.

Sub Unit

• Papers for Open Panels / TRANS-disciplinary research through STS practice: The co-creation of knowledge and collaboration

Chair

• Casimir MacGregor, BRANZ

Individual Presentations

• A Spectrum of Collaboration: From Co-operation to Co-production - Suzanne Vallance, Lincoln University; Andreas Wesener, Lincoln University; David Conradson, University of Canterbury; Sarah Edwards, Lincoln University; Hirini Matunga, Lincoln University

• A guide to the social study of science and technology within the context of transdisciplinary research: challenges, pitfalls and optimism - Casimir MacGregor, BRANZ; Claire Tanner, The University of Melbourne

• Co-Production And Consensus: Doing Ethnography In a Collaborative Research Partnership - Victoria Loblay, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre

• Re-configuring relationships and practice for sustainable change - Virginia Baker, ESR Institute of Environmental Science & Research Ltd; James Ataria, NZ

• Understanding the Emergence of a Hybrid Knowledge Production Discourse: The Case of the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) Drought Tolerant Rice Research in India - Soutrik Basu, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata

Session Organizer

• Casimir MacGregor, BRANZ