Building capacities for transdisciplinary research

Challenges and recommendations for early-career researchers

authored by: Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Johanna Kramm, Marco Sonnberger, Carolin Völker, Christian Albert, Antonia Graf, Kathleen Hermans, Steffen Lange, Tilman Santarius, Barbara Schröter, Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach, Janis Winzer
Abstract: While transdisciplinarity offers a way to tackle complex social-ecological challenges, transdisciplinary research is a challenging task in itself. The integration of research methods across academic disciplines, the collaboration between researchers and practitioners, and the need to balance societal and disciplinary academic impacts pose many difficulties even to experienced applied scientists and even more so to early-career researchers. Young scholars face particular problems, given their lack of longer-term experience and their still fragile position within academia. Drawing on existing literature, an early-career researcher workshop, and our own experience as junior research group leaders, we discuss specific challenges and respective solution strategies of transdisciplinary research within the context of sustainability.
Organisation(s): Institut für Umweltplanung
External Organisation(s): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Universität Stuttgart
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU)
Helmholtz Zentrum München - Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt
Technische Universität Berlin
Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (IZM)
Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW)
Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung GmbH (ISOE)
Type: Artikel
Journal: GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Volume: 27
Pages: 379-386
No. of pages: 8
ISSN: 0940-5550
Publication date: 01.01.2018
Publication status: Veröffentlicht
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Umweltwissenschaften (sonstige), Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ökonometrie und Finanzen (sonstige)
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.27.4.10 (Access: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.15488/4743 (Access: Offen)