The TD Wheel: A heuristic to shape, support and evaluate transdisciplinary research
The TD Wheel: A heuristic to shape, support and evaluate transdisciplinary research
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DOI：
10.1016/j.futures.2010.04.025
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2010-12-01
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Wickson, Fern
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作者：
Carew, Anna L.;Wickson, Fern
跨学科的研究方法越来越多地被吹捧为我们这个时代混乱的社会和环境问题。这些问题超越学科界限，与社会政治背景交织在一起，需要利益攸关方的参与，以产生社会可接受的结果。跨学科（TD）研究的一个重大障碍是设计和应用评估标准或模式的方法，被认为是必要的定制，灵活和不断发展。本文讨论了塑造，支持和评估跨学科研究的挑战。首先，我们综合TD研究特点的文献，突出新兴的共识领域和研究设计，执行和质量评估的一些影响。其次，我们提出了一个适应性的启发式称为TD轮（TDW）。TDW是当前文献中可用的不同见解的综合，并作为TD研究的组织图呈现。我们解释了TDW如何在研究过程的三个阶段具有实用性：塑造（规划和提出研究）;支持（指导研究）;和评估（规划评估，定期记录/检查进展，并报告结果）。TDW是一个挑衅性的图形，旨在帮助研究人员可视化和讨论TD研究的要素和过程。(C)2010爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
Transdisciplinary approaches to research are increasingly touted for the messy social and environmental problems of our time. Such problems transcend disciplinary boundaries, are intertwined with sociopolitical context, and require participation of stakeholders to generate socially acceptable outcomes. A substantial barrier to transdisciplinary (TD) research is devising and applying evaluative criteria or schemas for an approach that is recognized as necessarily tailored, flexible and evolving. This paper addresses the challenge of shaping, supporting and evaluating transdisciplinary research. Firstly, we synthesise the literature on TD research characteristics, highlighting areas of emerging consensus and some implications of these for research design, execution and quality evaluation. Secondly, we present an adaptable heuristic called the TD Wheel (TDW). The TDW is a synthesis of the disparate insights available within the current literature, and is presented as an organizing graphic for TD research. We explain how the TDW has utility at three stages of the research process: shaping (planning and proposing research): supporting (guiding research in-train); and evaluating (planning for evaluation, periodically documenting/checking progress, and reporting on outcomes). The TDW is a provocative graphic geared to help researchers visualize and discuss the elements and process of TD research. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.