Patterns with 3 star

Academic-practitioner networks

Building robust and long-term networks to share knowledge, skills and ideas, and to foster research collaborations.  

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An agreed level of collaboration

The researcher and those being researched reach an agreement about the level of collaboration in any one project. 

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Building Community

The implications of working with and within communities, and contributions of research to community-building efforts.

 

Value

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Clear Language

PRACTICE   Speak and write in terms as wide a range of people will understand as is practicable.

Practice

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Creating Positive Change

Making the research process as transformative as the experience and practice of Transition.

Value

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Critical Thinking

Adopting a constructively critical stance towards Transition.

Principle

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Energy Descent

Minimising throughputs of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources associated with research activities, making these as consistent as possible with the conditions of energy descent.

Value

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Making a difference

Research should result in positive social and environmental changes that supports and/or informs the work of Transition.

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Memorandum of Understanding

For formal research collaborations between a Transition network or initiative and an external researcher such as an academic, it can be useful to draw up a Memorandum of Understanding.    

Practice

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Recognition of Authorship

Extending authorship beyond the sole researcher, to recognise the contributions of others involved in the research.

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Reflecting on what we do

Critical reflection on research practice is built in at all stages, as an integral part of the research process.

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Research as Activism

Research is carried out with the goal of positive social and environmental change, in light of the overarching values above.

Principle

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Research Marketplace

An online facility for researchers and Transition groups to advertise their research interests and begin conversations that might lead to collaboration.

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Working across boundaries

Working across and disrupting traditional boundaries in research, among disciplines or between academic and practitioner/community research.

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