The Role of Transacademic Interface Managers in Transformational Sustainability Research and Education
The Role of Transacademic Interface Managers in Transformational Sustainability Research and Education
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DOI：
10.3390/su5114614
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发表时间：
2013-11-01
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3.9
通讯作者：
Kay, Braden
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作者：
Brundiers, Katja;Wiek, Arnim;Kay, Braden
为实现可持续的解决方案而努力，需要让社会各部门的专业人员和利益攸关方参与研究和教学。这往往给大学学者带来挑战，因为他们缺乏能力和时间，无法在教师、学生和利益攸关方之间就不同的议程、语言、能力和文化进行谈判。管理方法和质量标准已经开发，以科普这一挑战，包括边界组织，跨学科研究，过渡管理和接口管理的概念。然而，这些概念很少提出全面的建议，如何促进研究与利益相关者的参与，同时创造教育机会，沿着一个项目的生命周期。本文重点介绍了跨学术接口经理（TIM）支持参与式可持续发展研究和教育工作的立场。我们概念化的TIM的任务组合，概述了TIM需要具备的能力，以成功运作，并提出了一种教育方法，如何培养学生成为TIM。为此，我们回顾了现有的文献TIM和经验的可持续发展研究和教育项目，涉及TIM在不同的功能，目前的见解。这篇文章为大学如何更有效地组织这些关键的努力提供了实际指导，并为学生提供了额外的职业视角。
Working towards sustainable solutions requires involving professionals and stakeholders from all sectors of society into research and teaching. This often presents a challenge to scholars at universities, as they lack capacity and time needed for negotiating different agendas, languages, competencies, and cultures among faculty, students, and stakeholders. Management approaches and quality criteria have been developed to cope with this challenge, including concepts of boundary organizations, transdisciplinary research, transition management, and interface management. However, few of these concepts present comprehensive proposals how to facilitate research with stakeholder participation while creating educational opportunities along the lifecycle of a project. The article focuses on the position of a transacademic interface manager (TIM) supporting participatory sustainability research and education efforts. We conceptualize the task portfolio of a TIM; outline the capacities a TIM needs to possess in order to successfully operate; and propose an educational approach for how to train students in becoming a TIM. For this, we review the existing literature on TIMs and present insights from empirical sustainability research and educational projects that involved TIMs in different functions. The article provides practical guidance to universities on how to organize these critical endeavors more effectively and to offer students an additional career perspective.