Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing

Hendriks, Friederike; Bromme, Rainer

doi:10.1177/10755470221137052

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“…Throughout the development of the interdisciplinary climate change research education programme, an emphasis was placed on the leadership and development of ECRs (Hendriks & Bromme, 2022), including PhD students, those having completed PhDs in recent years, and those still in positions of precarious academic employment. ECR development was built in to the programme through an open floor for all attendees to comment at each meeting; ECRs leading in delivery including budget management and administration; reflective debriefing practices after each workshop; and sharing of training opportunities with all involved researchers.…”

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The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation

van der Plank,

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Anderson

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When young people engage with climate change education, they are often left feeling disempowered and daunted. But past research has shown that there are ways to design and deliver climate change education that can be empowering and enabling. The delivery of climate change education was further challenged in 2020 by the shift to online learning driven by the COVID‐19 pandemic restrictions. However, the challenges of the pandemic context also offered an opportunity to engage new audiences and establish new collaborations in climate change education. In this paper, we explore how the shift to online research, collaboration and education can also be harnessed to develop interdisciplinary coastal adaptation training for young people interested in better understanding the complexities of our coastal environments. The resulting ‘More than Maps’ framework draws on qualitative and quantitative data collected over a two‐year programme focused on the design and delivery of an international climate change research capacity building workshop series, across the United Kingdom, Ghana, Jamaica and Australia. Carried out by an interdisciplinary team of early career researchers and established academics, 15 workshops were developed on coastal adaptation research methods, targeting a range of ‘young’ audiences who are and will continue to be impacted by climate change. Building on reflections from the workshops' design and delivery, we developed a scalable framework to aid researchers in sharing open‐access, replicable methods for studying climate change mitigation and adaptation. This work demonstrates that our workshop participants had increased confidence, sought to apply learned methods to other contexts, and wanted to share this knowledge with others. We conclude that the COVID‐19 online workspace facilitated rather than hindered the international collaboration and delivery of these coastal adaptation research methods workshops, and we provide best practice tips to researchers delivering climate change education.

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The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation

van der Plank,

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Anderson

et al. 2024

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The Living Library: a process-based tool for open literature review, probing the boundaries of open science

Angerer,

Burke,

Dirks

et al. 2024

SN Soc Sci

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The Living Library is a novel tool for opening the scientific process of literature reviewing. We here present its core features, set-up and workflow, and provide the open-source code via GitHub (https://github.com/Simon-Dirks/living-library). The Living Library allows researchers to sort articles thematically and temporally, has a built-in open logbook, and uses a responsive methodology. These core features render the Living Library both a practical tool, and an educative framework for reflection on the research process. Its use deepened our understanding of what it means and what it takes to open science, which we summarise in three main lessons: openness is multidirectional, involving sharing and receiving; openness is relational and as such requires boundary work; and openness entails judgments of relevance. This highlights the intimate connection between research relevance and open science: Opening science is no categorical practice, but the continuous syncing to a world in motion—opening up for it and to it, to varying degrees at different boundaries, in response to what is happening and what matters. The Living Library models what such syncing can look like in relation to the evolving academic conversation. We encourage further experimentation with the Living Library to probe the boundaries of open science.

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Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science

Lee,

Taylor,

Ahmed

et al. 2024

Public Underst Sci

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Numerous studies have been conducted to identify the factors that predict trust/distrust in science. However, most of these studies are based on closed-ended survey research, which does not allow researchers to gain a more nuanced understanding of the phenomenon. This study integrated survey analysis conducted within the United States with computational text analysis to reveal factors previously obscured by traditional survey methodologies. Even after controlling for political ideology—which has been the most significant explanatory factor in determining trust in science within a survey framework—we found those with concerns over boundary-crossing (i.e. concerns or perceptions that science overlaps with politics, the government, and funding) were less likely to trust science than their counterparts.

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Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing

Cited by 3 publications

References 52 publications

The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation

The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation

The Living Library: a process-based tool for open literature review, probing the boundaries of open science

Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science

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