ORCID Profile
0000-0002-9738-0593
Current Organisation
Australian National University
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-08-2022
DOI: 10.1057/S41599-022-01297-Z
Abstract: Methods are often thought of as neutral tools that researchers can pick up and use to learn about a reality ‘out there.’ Motivated by growing recognition of complexity, there have been widespread calls to mix methods, both within and across disciplines, to generate richer scientific understandings and more effective policy interventions. However, bringing methods together often reveals their tacit, inherently contestable, and sometimes directly opposing assumptions about reality and how it can and should be known. There are consequently growing efforts to identify the competencies necessary to work with multiple methods effectively. We identify the ability to recognise and negotiate the ethical-political dimensions of research methods as a key competency in mixed methods, inter- and transdisciplinary, and co-production research, particularly for researchers addressing societal challenges in fields like environment, health and education. We describe these ethical-political dimensions by drawing on our experiences developing an ethics application for a transdisciplinary sustainability science project that brings together the photovoice method and controlled behavioural experiments. The first dimension is that different methods and methodological approaches generate their own ethical standards guiding interactions between researchers and participants that may contradict each other. The second is that these differing ethical standards are directly linked to the variable effects that methods have in wider society (both in terms of their enactment in the moment and the knowledge generated), raising more political questions about the kinds of realities that researchers are contributing to through their chosen methods. We identify the practices that helped us—as two researchers using different methodological approaches—to productively explore these dimensions and enrich our collaborative work. We conclude with pointers for evaluating the ethical-political rigour of mixed methods, inter- and transdisciplinary, and co-production research, and discuss how such rigour might be supported in research projects, graduate training programmes and research organisations.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-06-2016
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-016-0721-3
Abstract: Adaptive management is an approach to environmental management based on learning-by-doing, where complexity, uncertainty, and incomplete knowledge are acknowledged and management actions are treated as experiments. However, while adaptive management has received significant uptake in theory, it remains elusively difficult to enact in practice. Proponents have blamed social barriers and have called for social science contributions. We address this gap by adopting a qualitative approach to explore the development of an ecological monitoring program within an adaptive management framework in a public land management organization in Australia. We ask what practices are used to enact the monitoring program and how do they shape learning? We elicit a rich narrative through extensive interviews with a key in idual, and analyze the narrative using thematic analysis. We discuss our results in relation to the concept of 'knowledge work' and Westley's (2002) framework for interpreting the strategies of adaptive managers-'managing through, in, out and up.' We find that enacting the program is conditioned by distinct and sometimes competing logics-scientific logics prioritizing experimentation and learning, public logics emphasizing accountability and legitimacy, and corporate logics demanding efficiency and effectiveness. In this context, implementing adaptive management entails practices of translation to negotiate tensions between objective and situated knowledge, external experts and organizational staff, and collegiate and hierarchical norms. Our contribution embraces the 'doing' of learning-by-doing and marks a shift from conceptualizing the social as an external barrier to adaptive management to be removed to an approach that situates adaptive management as social knowledge practice.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4283097
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-01-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-04-2023
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-08-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-01-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2015
Publisher: SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID)
Date: 12-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-05-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-05-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-06-2019
DOI: 10.1002/PAN3.10033
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2019
End Date: 2021
Funder: Swedish Research Council for Environment Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2018
End Date: 2021
Funder: Swedish Research Council for Environment Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2017
End Date: 2017
Funder: Swedish Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2022
End Date: 2025
Funder: Swedish Research Council for Environment Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
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