Social Studies of Environment and Sustainability

拟议的高级培训课程计划在一周内交付，将为博士生提供一套协调的培训活动，主题是“环境与可持续发展的社会研究”。从最广泛的意义上讲，可持续发展涉及政策和生活方式，探讨政治和经济行动者在帮助或阻碍向与自然资源有关的更易于管理的治理模式过渡方面的作用，并鼓励当地和世界各地社区之间建立更公平的关系。东英吉利大学在这些课程主题的跨学科研究方面享有无与伦比的声誉，所有参与者都将受益于东英吉利大学内外的优秀研究成果，并由世界领先的社会科学家提供培训。以“环境与可持续发展的社会研究”为重点，每个专业培训课程都能解决权利、价值观、知识、治理和社会规范等问题，这些问题是“地平线2020”计划确定的社会挑战的核心。其目的是鼓励反思，并为PGR学生提供与政策相关的工具，以解决21世纪社会科学目前面临的一些最具挑战性的问题。具体来说，整个套件中的四门培训课程将集中在：(1)政策分析中的概念理论和话语方法：环境与可持续发展政策案例。(2)全球环境正义研究的研究方法。(3)跨学科博士：跨学科研究本质的概念和实践方法。这是一套真正先进和原创的培训课程，旨在补充东英吉利大学的核心PGR培训途径，并补充和丰富NCRM高级培训网络中的现有课程。根据ESRC（2009）对高级培训的定义，高级培训是“个人博士培训路径中核心培训的补充”（ESRC, 2009），其中一些课程将提供高级概念重点（全球环境正义），而其他课程将解决博士项目的认识论身份（跨学科博士），具体方法，他们可以产生的结果，以及这些结果在影响方面的更广泛含义（政策分析中的参与性研究、观念理论和话语方法）。这套课程将在6月份的一个星期内分批提供（并将在三年内每年重复一次）。这将允许有兴趣的人根据他们的需要参加一个或多个单独的课程，或者以降低的费率参加整个星期的课程，如果他们的研究兴趣涉及环境和可持续性问题，在更广泛的范围内。这些课程也是专门设计的，以使PGR学生在博士课程的各个阶段受益，每个课程都将遵循类似的交付格式。首先，这将包括一个为期一到两天的研讨会，结合讲座、讨论和数据驱动的会议，重点关注学生的研究数据。课程和持续学习将在之后继续进行，通过为参与者提供在线论坛（以及相关资源和链接的存储库），由东英吉利大学主持，并为PGR学生提供一对一的后续教程。这将使研究生与会者在最需要专家建议的时候受益于他们自己的研究。我们相信，这种形式和课程套件将为PGR学生提供一个真正的多学科和跨学科的机会，与世界领先的研究人员和其他PGR学生进行交流，解决类似的研究问题和挑战。

The proposed programme of Advanced Training courses, scheduled for delivery across a single week, will offer doctoral students a suite of coordinated training events under the broad theme of 'Social Studies of Environment and Sustainability'. In its broadest sense, sustainability engages with policies and lifestyles, explores the roles of political and economic actors in helping or hindering transitions to more manageable modes of governance in relation to natural resources, and encourages more equitable relations between and among communities locally and worldwide. UEA's reputation for the interdisciplinary study of these course topics is unrivalled and all participants will benefit from training delivered by world leading social scientists and drawing on research excellence from within and outside the University of East Anglia.A focus on 'Social Studies of Environment and Sustainability' allows each specialist training course to address issues of rights, values, knowledge, governance and social norms at the heart of those societal challenges identified in the Horizon 2020 programme. The aim is to encourage reflection and to equip PGR students with policy-relevant tools for addressing some of the most challenging questions currently facing 21st century social science. Specifically, the four training courses in the overall suite will focus on:(1) Ideational Theories and Discursive Methodologies in Policy Analysis: The Case of Environmental & Sustainability Policy.(2) Research Methods in Global Environmental Justice (GEJ) Research.(3) The Interdisciplinary PhD: Conceptual and Practical Approaches to the Nature of Interdisciplinary Research.(4) Participatory Research Approaches in Global Contexts This truly advanced and original set of training courses is designed to supplement core PGR training pathways in UEA and to complement and enrich current offerings within the NCRM Advanced Training Network. In line with the ESRC's (2009) definition of advanced training as being 'additional to core training within an individual doctoral training pathway' (ESRC, 2009), some of these courses will offer an advanced conceptual focus (Global Environmental Justice), whilst others address the epistemological identity of a doctoral project (Interdisciplinary PhD), specific methodologies, the outcomes they can produce, and the broader implications of these outcomes in terms of impact (Participatory Research, Ideational Theories & Discursive Methodologies in Policy Analysis).The suite of courses will be offered, in a block, over a single week in June (and will be repeated once a year for three years). This will allow interested parties to attend one or more individual courses depending on their needs, or to attend the whole week of courses, at a reduced rate, if their research interests engage with issues of environment and sustainability, across the wider spectrum. The courses have also been specifically designed to benefit PGR students at various stages of their doctoral programme and each will follow a similar delivery format. In the first instance, this will involve a one or two day workshop combining lectures, discussions, and data-driven sessions focussing on the student's research data. Courses and ongoing learning will continue afterwards, via the provision of an online forum (and repository of relevant resources and links) for participants, moderated by UEA, as well as the offer of a one-to-one follow-up tutorial for PGR students. This will allow postgraduate attendees to benefit from expert advice about their own research at a time when that advice is most needed. This format and suite of courses, we believe, will afford PGR students a genuinely multi and interdisciplinary opportunity to network with world leading researchers and other PGR students addressing similar research issues and challenges.