scholarly journals Seven rules for researchers to increase their impact on the policy process

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1087-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Mostert ◽  
G. T. Raadgever
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Research Utilization ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Water Management Practice ◽  
Specific Expertise ◽  
Made In

Abstract. This paper addresses the question of how hydrologists and other researchers can contribute most to water management practice. It reviews the literature in the field of science and technology studies and research utilization and presents the results in the form of seven "rules" for researchers. These are (1) Reflect on the nature and possible roles of science and expertise; (2) Analyze the stakeholders and issues at stake; (3) Choose whom and what to serve; (4) Decide on your strategy; (5) Design the process to implement your strategy; (6) Communicate!; and (7) Consider your possibilities and limitations. A key notion in this paper is that research always involves selection and interpretation and that the selection and interpretations made in a specific case always reflect the values and preferences of those involved. Collaboration between researchers and the other stakeholders can increase the legitimacy and utilization of the research and can prevent the researchers' specific expertise from being lost.

scholarly journals The seven rules for hydrologists and other researchers wanting to contribute to the water management practice

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 843-864
Author(s):  
E. Mostert ◽  
G. T. Raadgever
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Research Utilization ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Water Management Practice ◽  
Specific Expertise ◽  
Made In

Abstract. This paper addresses the question how hydrologists and other researchers can best contribute to the water management practice. It reviews the literature in the field of science and technology studies and research utilization and presents the results in the form of seven "rules" for researchers. These are (1) Reflect on the nature and possible roles of research; (2) Analyse the stakeholders and issues at stake; (3) Choose whom and what to serve; (4) Decide on your strategy; (5) Design the process to implement your strategy; (6) Communicate!; and (7) Consider your possibilities and limitations. Key notions in this paper are that research always involves selection and interpretation and that the selection and interpretations made in a specific case always reflect the values and preferences of those involved. Collaboration between the researchers and the other stakeholders can increase the legitimacy and utilization of the research and can prevent that the specific expertise of the researchers is lost.

scholarly journals Assessing Framing of Uncertainties in Water Management Practice

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (15) ◽  
pp. 3191-3205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Isendahl ◽  
Art Dewulf ◽  
Marcela Brugnach ◽  
Greet François ◽  
Sabine Möllenkamp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Water Management Practice

scholarly journals Learning from Collaborative Research in Water Management Practice

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 3251-3266 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. T. Raadgever ◽  
E. Mostert ◽  
N. C. van de Giesen
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Water Management Practice

Making Materials: The Case of Elaborating Qualities of Bioplastics

Design Issues ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damla Tonuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Properties Of Materials ◽  
Made In

This article focuses on materials by taking an alternative route into considering their relationships to products. I draw on approaches from social sciences, especially studies influenced by science and technology studies, and conceptualise materials (and products) as made in their social and technical environment, and their properties as enacted in different environments of which they become a part, such as production and branding. Building on this framework, I focus on the production process in which materials, namely bioplastics, are produced and are transformed into products and so material-product relationships are formed, and new materials are substituted with existing ones. As such this study shows that actually products make materials as well, and that properties of materials are not intrinsic to them so as to be to chosen by designers, but that properties of materials are partly made in relation to the products into which they are made.

Using framing parameters to improve handling of uncertainties in water management practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Isendahl ◽  
Claudia Pahl-Wostl ◽  
Art Dewulf
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Water Management Practice

Disciplinary Translations

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-250
Author(s):  
Casper Bruun Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Knowledge Change ◽  
Technical Mediation ◽  
The One ◽  
Nonhuman Agency ◽  
Instructive Case

Early in his career, Bruno Latour’s limited readership consisted mainly of the research community in science and technology studies (STS) that he helped to inaugurate. Today the situation could hardly be more different. Latour is now subject to the “translations”—the processes by which ideas travel—that he has provided such powerful tools for analyzing. He has become a “mutable mobile”—eminently transportable but always changing as he goes—that in different contexts exists as a variety of conceptual characters or figurations. As the Latour network continues to see significant extensions and transformations, it offers an instructive case for understanding the potentials and dynamics of traveling texts and ideas—and of their relation to existing disciplinary formations—as ecologies of knowledge change. This article examines the reception and adaptation of Latour’s ideas in two quite different intellectual contexts: anthropology and literary studies. The proliferation of Latour figurations is shown to be a consequence of interactions between, on the one hand, existing disciplinary constellations of ideas, concerns, and practices, and, on the other hand, his own often ambiguous arguments on topics including theory and method, nonhuman agency and politics, and technical mediation.

scholarly journals An introduction to Crafting Sustainability – exploring the interconnections between sustainability and craft

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Roger Andre Søraa ◽  
Håkon Fyhn
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Problems And Solutions

Sustainability has become a critical issue, calling for new conceptualizations of both problems and solutions. This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies,  explore the concept of “Crafting Sustainability”. Sustainability is a hot topic in contemporary scholarly debates, with methodological, theoretical, and conceptual contributions from a wide array of research areas, also from Science and Technology Studies. Craft on the other hand has been less of a focal point, although all humans relate to craft on some level.

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