Transdisciplinarity and Shifting Network Boundaries: The Challenges of Studying an Evolving Stakeholder Network in Participatory Settings
Transdisciplinarity and Shifting Network Boundaries: The Challenges of Studying an Evolving Stakeholder Network in Participatory Settings
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跨学科性和不断变化的网络边界：研究参与环境中不断发展的利益相关者网络的挑战
DOI：
10.1177/1525822x20983984
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
E. V. Van Dolah
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作者：
C. Prell;Christine D. Miller Hesed;Katherine J. Johnson;M. Paolisso;Jose D. Teodoro;E. V. Van Dolah
参与式研究涉及跨学科的利益相关者团队在研究过程的各个方面。这种参与可能导致研究设计的转变，以及谁被认为是参与者。我们详细介绍了我们的经验，研究一个不断发展的利益相关者网络的背景下，一个2.5年的跨学科，参与式项目。我们展示了参与如何导致网络边界的变化，以及如何需要跨学科的努力来回顾性地重新定义网络边界。通过在人种学见解、研究目标和建模假设之间来回徘徊，该团队最终就什么决定了网络成员资格以及如何根据网络成员的时间和参与程度对其进行编码达成了一致。我们的帐户推进文献的边界和建模方法，以改变，不断发展的网络，通过展示如何参与跨学科既可以是一个驱动程序，解决方案，捕捉不断发展的网络的复杂性。
Participatory research engages a transdisciplinary team of stakeholders in all aspects of the research process. Such engagement can lead to shifts in the research design, as well as who is considered a participant. We detail our experiences of studying an evolving stakeholder network in the context of a 2.5-year transdisciplinary, participatory project. We show how participation leads to shifts in the network boundary overtime and how a transdisciplinary effort was needed to retrospectively redefine the network boundary. Through tacking back and forth between ethnographic insights, research aims, and modeling assumptions, the team eventually reached agreement on what determined network membership and how to code network members according to their timing and level of participation. Our account advances literature on boundary and modeling approaches to shifting, evolving networks by demonstrating how participatory transdisciplinarity can be both a driver of, and solution to, capturing the complexity of evolving networks.