Moderator note: We are aware that the ‘Select date range’ field in the search box below is not currently working. We are seeking a solution and once obtained, will remove this warning box. All other fields in the advanced search box below are working correctly. Last updated 6 November 2025.
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Three spaces of change for reorienting North-South research partnerships
By Geetika Khanduja, Peter Taylor, Andrea Ordóñez, Erica Nelson and Tracy Mamoun
What are some of the challenges that researchers from the Global South face when engaging in development research initiatives, and how can resetting the relationships that underpin North-South collaborations help? What are the pivotal areas where change is needed?
Challenges
The main concerns for many researchers in Global South-based institutions are around the deep-rooted structural challenges that underpin the research for development space, such as:
- funding dependence on external sources,
- insufficient national expenditures on research,
- lack of agency in the design and implementation of research projects,
- publication pressures built on problematic Global North “output”-driven demands,
- competing incentives for promoting and achieving policy uptake.
Three lessons for mainstreaming transdisciplinarity
By Lisa Andrews, Bárbara Willaarts, Andreas Panagopoulos, Radhika Kanade, Nelson Odume, Bodil Ankjær Nielsen and Ingrīda Brēmere.
Are there similar challenges, responsibilities, and methods in transdisciplinarity across countries, scales, contexts and actor types?
In exploring five transdisciplinary case studies from projects on the topics of the water-energy-food-environment nexus and climate change adaptation, we identified three main lessons learned. These were common across the cases from South Africa, India, Greece, Latvia and Denmark, despite their different contexts, types of actors and project structures. These lessons were shared in a workshop at the 2024 Sustainability, Research and Innovation (SRI) Congress in Finland.
Metalogues and their role in communities of practice
By Janet J. McIntyre-Mills
What is a metalogue? How can metalogues support the work of communities of practice?
A metalogue is a series of asynchronous, iterative conversations, and commentary on transcripts from dialogues, to enable exploring diverse ways of knowing in a community of practice (Wenger et al., 2009).
The term ‘metalogue’ draws on the work of Gregory Bateson (1972) and Nora Bateson (2021) to encourage people to think ecologically and to avoid what Shiva (2012) calls ‘monocultures of the mind’ when addressing areas of concern. In other words to think about relationships within context and to foster ‘an ecology of mind’ with members of a community of practice. The aim is to address an area of shared concern by pooling ideas in a reciprocal manner in order to achieve an agreed goal with people from similar or diverse backgrounds spanning spaces and places.
How can metalogues support the work of communities of practice?
A process for applying intersectionality
By Zdena Middernacht and Laurène Bounaud
2. Laurène Bounaud (biography)
What is intersectionality? What are the structural elements that limit its application? How can intersectionality be applied as a useful lens, especially in strategy development?
A recap of intersectionality
Intersectionality offers a framework to understand how particular identities, (eg., black and female) are tied to particular inequalities (eg., violence against women) in different historical times and locations.
The material conditions which produce economic, social and political inequality in peoples’ lives are structured by the converging and simultaneous ways in which the ever-changing logics by which society is organised, interact (Mirza 2013). These logics include race, class and gender, as well as other social divisions such as sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, culture, and religion.
As such, different dimensions of social life cannot be separated out into discrete and pure strands.
Photovoice as a participatory research method
By Jule Marie Huber, Claudia Bieling, María García-Martín, Tobias Plieninger and Mario Torralba
How can research effectively engage vulnerable and marginalised groups on issues that affect their lives? How can local knowledge, opinions, and experiences be captured in a way that identifies their concerns and priorities?
Photovoice is a research method that uses photographs taken by participants to encourage dialogue within the community. It was developed to empower marginalised groups and promote community action, and is also more widely useful as a participatory method. It has been used for issues in public health, immigration, homelessness, disability, youth and sustainability.
In this i2Insights contribution we describe a 7-step procedure for using photovoice, noting that considerable flexibility is possible.
Step 1: Development of a research design
Mindset matters for interdisciplinary teams: Choose a collaborative one
By L. Michelle Bennett
- How often do you think about what you are thinking about?
- How about what you believe? What your values are? Or your deep set needs?
- Do you recognize that everything you say, do, or write as a member of an interdisciplinary team is influenced by what is in your head? And your team members by what is in theirs?
We can all relate to what it is like to be doing a project with close colleagues when things work seamlessly, the group is productive, everyone innately seems to know what to do and how to do it, people are comfortable pointing out things that need to be changed or fixed, and everyone is fully present.
I’m guessing we can all also relate to what it is like when there is tension among colleagues. Maybe there is something amiss that everyone sees or notices, but no one is willing to surface for discussion, so everyone sidesteps.