Creative Experimentations for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

该博士学位将允许探索从一系列创造性学科和社会科学中汲取的社会参与实践和方法如何塑造和反映RENEW项目的合作研究成果。鉴于参与研究领域的跨学科创新，欢迎来自科学与技术研究、社会学、人类学、人文地理、创意写作、戏剧、艺术与设计等学科背景的申请。理想情况下，指定的学生应该有社区参与工作的直接经验，并有信心和自我激励，与公众和RENEW研究团队共同进行实地研究。作为回报，指定的学生将有机会与我们世界一流的研究团队和广泛的合作伙伴合作，在他们开发项目的过程中找到应对生物多样性危机的新解决方案。该学生将作为X3（协作实践）团队的一员，在RENEW研究项目的发展过程中进行研究，帮助RENEW了解自身并反思其过程。他们将探索并记录“什么是有效的”，并利用他们的发现参与更广泛的研究、保护和当地社区。学生还将探索科学家和非专业人士如何创造性地应对“生物多样性”（景观、生态系统和生活在其中的动物和植物）。我们对不断变化的环境的理解可以是理智的，但也常常是情感的、审美的和基于故事的，这有助于我们理解周围的世界。如果我们要让每个人都参与到恢复生物多样性的工作中来，就需要将这些认识纳入新的知识、不断变化的政策、专业实践和日常习惯中。该学生将帮助开发新的方法，以激发和记录有关生物多样性更新的更广泛的思考以及合作实践；并探索这种想法是如何随着时间而变化的。他们的发现将形成一个反馈循环，形成构成日常研究合作的日常惯例和社会互动。他们的技术不仅应该记录数据，还应该鼓励创新行动，鼓励RENEW参与者对研究过程和更广泛的生物多样性危机进行反思。学生的作业将帮助每个参与的人理解我们的集体作业。他们的研究成果的创造性关键平衡将与研究团队协商，但根据成功候选人的能力和兴趣，可能包括创造性实践作为研究的组成部分以及批判性论文。

This PhD studentship will allow the exploration of how socially engaged practices and methods drawn from a range of creative disciplines and social sciences may shape and reflect the collaborative co-production of research across the RENEW project. In the light of transdisciplinary innovations made in the area of participatory research, applications have been welcomed from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including science and technology studies, sociology, anthropology, human geography, creative writing, drama, art and design. The appointed student should ideally have direct experience of community-engagement work and feel confident and self-motivated to co-produce field-work research with the public and the RENEW research team. In return, the appointed student will have the opportunity to work with our world-class team of researchers and extensive range of partners to find new solutions to the biodiversity crisis as they develop their project. The student will work as part of the X3 (Collaboration in Practice) team and study the RENEW research programme as it develops, helping RENEW to see itself and reflect on its processes. They will explore and document 'what's working' and engage wider research, conservation and local communities with their findings. The student will also explore the ways in which scientists and lay people alike respond creatively to 'biodiversity' (landscapes, ecosystems and the animals and plants living in them). Our understandings of changing environments can be intellectual, but are often also emotional, aesthetic and story-based, helping to make sense of the world around us. These understandings need to be incorporated into new knowledge, changing policies, professional practice and everyday habits, if we are to engage everyone in renewing biodiversity.The student will help develop new methodologies for eliciting and recording broader thinking about biodiversity renewal alongside collaborative practices; and explore how that thinking changes over time. Their findings will form a feed-back loop that shapes the everyday routines and social interactions which make up the day-to-day research collaboration. Their techniques should not only record data but encourage creative action and reflection on the research processes and wider biodiversity crisis amongst RENEW participants. The student's work will help everyone involved to make sense of our collective work. The creative-critical balance of thei research outputs will be negotiated with the research team but may include a creative practices-as-research component alongside a critical thesis, according to the successful candidate's abilities and interests.