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TY - GEN
T1 - Agility in Transdisciplinary Research
T2 - ICT4S – International Conferences of ICT for Sustainability 2020
AU - Winter, Emily
AU - Ferrario, Maria Angela
AU - Blair, Gordon
N1 - © ACM, 2020. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, 2020 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3401335.3401646
PY - 2020/6/21
Y1 - 2020/6/21
N2 - Environmental challenges demand radically transdisciplinary approaches in order to respond to their complexity. Whilst transdisciplinarity has become a buzzword, less attention has been given to approaches that genuinely transcend disciplinary boundaries and support work within multifaceted and volatile research environments. This paper examines the adaptation of an existing transdisciplinary research management framework and extracts lessons learnt from its adoption in a one-year research sprint exploring the role of digital technologies in flood risk management (the flood sprint). Drawing on interviews (N=14) with the flood sprint core university team (including researchers and the project administrator) and partners, we present the opportunities and challenges of this approach. Specifically, we find that whilst the approach fostered meaningful relationships and knowledge building between the researchers and the partners, challenges were experienced within the research team around internal collaboration and the pressures of the sprint cycle. The balance between rapid prototyping and longevity was also a challenge.
AB - Environmental challenges demand radically transdisciplinary approaches in order to respond to their complexity. Whilst transdisciplinarity has become a buzzword, less attention has been given to approaches that genuinely transcend disciplinary boundaries and support work within multifaceted and volatile research environments. This paper examines the adaptation of an existing transdisciplinary research management framework and extracts lessons learnt from its adoption in a one-year research sprint exploring the role of digital technologies in flood risk management (the flood sprint). Drawing on interviews (N=14) with the flood sprint core university team (including researchers and the project administrator) and partners, we present the opportunities and challenges of this approach. Specifically, we find that whilst the approach fostered meaningful relationships and knowledge building between the researchers and the partners, challenges were experienced within the research team around internal collaboration and the pressures of the sprint cycle. The balance between rapid prototyping and longevity was also a challenge.
U2 - 10.1145/3401335.3401646
DO - 10.1145/3401335.3401646
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450375955
SP - 147
EP - 157
BT - ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability
PB - ACM
Y2 - 21 June 2020
ER -