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Transforming science and society? Methodological lessons from and for transformation research
Research Evaluation ( IF 2.800 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 , DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvaa034
Katharina Hölscher 1 , Julia M Wittmayer 1 , Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers 2 , Alfred Olfert 3 , Jörg Walther 4 , Georg Schiller 3 , Benjamin Brunnow 3
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Transformation research has in the past years emerged as a shared lens to study and support radical societal change towards sustainability. Given the nascent and exploratory—yet highly normative and ambitious—character of transformation research, we aim to enhance the understanding of transformation research: when do research designs qualify as transformation research, what is needed for putting transformation research into practice, and what are results? To this end, we develop a framework that identifies criteria for designing and reflecting on research results, design and processes as transformation research. We employ this framework to reflect on our work in a research project that was designed in the spirit of transformation research: The TRAFIS (Transformations towards resource-conserving and climate-resilient coupled infrastructures) project sought to understand and support the development of innovative coupled infrastructures to mobilize their critical role in achieving sustainability transformations. Our results yield lessons and recommendations about what transformation research looks like in practice and how it can be strengthened, focussing on 1, redefining and re-valuing research for societal impact; 2, redesigning research to integrate perspectives on radical societal change; and 3, re-equipping researchers and research partners for social learning. We conclude that while transformation research already contributes to framing and generating knowledge about real-world sustainability challenges, its transformative impact is still limited. Practicing transformation research requires far-reaching changes in the science system, but also continuous reflection about legitimacy, power relations, and impacts.

中文翻译:

改变科学和社会?转型研究的方法论经验教训

过去几年,转型研究已成为研究和支持实现可持续发展的激进社会变革的共同视角。鉴于转型研究的新生和探索性 - 但高度规范和雄心勃勃 - 特征,我们旨在增强对转型研究的理解:研究设计何时有资格成为转型研究,将转型研究付诸实践需要什么,以及结果是什么? 为此,我们开发了一个框架,将设计和反思研究结果、设计和过程的标准确定为转型研究。我们采用这个框架来反思我们在本着转型研究精神设计的研究项目中的工作:TRAFIS(向资源节约型和气候弹性耦合基础设施转型)项目旨在了解和支持创新耦合基础设施的发展,以调动其在实现可持续性转型中的关键作用。我们的结果提供了关于转型研究在实践中的样子以及如何加强转型研究的经验教训和建议,重点关注 1,重新定义和重新评估社会影响研究;2、重新设计研究以整合激进社会变革的观点;3、重新装备研究人员和研究伙伴进行社会学习。我们得出的结论是,虽然转型研究已经有助于构建和生成有关现实世界可持续性挑战的知识,但其转型影响仍然有限。
更新日期:2021-03-12
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