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Barry Ness

Barry Ness

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Barry Ness

Getting personal with collaborative sustainability experimentation : Reflections and recommendations from a transdisciplinary partnership with the Swedish craft beer sector

Author

  • Barry Ness
  • Darin Wahl

Summary, in English

This paper provides reflections on transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction and experimentation processes from sustainability researcher perspectives. It centers on a 5-year period of collaborative research with small- and medium-sized enterprises in an Urban Living Lab in the Swedish craft beer sector. Nine reflections cover a variety of issues and potentials encountered during numerous interactions with societal partners, and are structured by three levels: organizational, interpersonal and intrapersonal. Based on the reflections, authors then propose a set of seven considerations and recommendations for how to more effectively collaborate in such transdisciplinary constellations. The recommendations apply across the three levels, and describe an approach to collaborative research that asks the researcher to be open, transparent, self-aware and intentional, reflective and reflexive, and both adaptive and flexible. Furthermore, they aim to create soft structures to facilitate understanding and mutual learning, such as designating "organizational champions", as well as to embed collaborative reflections into recurring meetings with partners to maintain trust and capture sustainability knock-on opportunities as they arise.

Department/s

  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
  • Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy
  • CIRCLE
  • Lund University Commissioned Education

Publishing year

2022-06-30

Language

English

Pages

2544-2556

Publication/Series

Ambio

Volume

51

Issue

12

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • collaborative autobiography
  • Craft beer
  • Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
  • Sustainability experimentation research
  • Transdisciplinarity
  • Urban living labs

Status

Published

Project

  • Experimenting with sustainability transformations: A study of Urban Living Labs in the food, water and energy nexus

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0044-7447