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Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities
Workshop29 and 30 June 2015University of Sussex
#transdisciplinarymethodswww.thenexusnetwork.org
Wifi: ‘Conferences’Password: ‘state his solid powder’
Developing ‘Nexus Capabilities’:
towards transdisciplinary methodologies
Andy Stirling
SPRU & STEPS Centre
University of Sussex
presentation to Nexus Network workshop on
Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities’
University of Sussex, 29th June 2015
www.steps-centre.org/
www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/
www.multicriteriamapping.com
www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/people/peoplelists/person/7513
Review of >100
different kinds of
‘Nexus-related
method’
Background Approach
- relations & practices: analytic / interactive
- epistemic cultures: quantitative / hybrid / qualitative
- styles of reasoning: deductive / inductive / abductive
- procedural functions: frameworks / techniques / tools
Energy regulation: most mature, sophisticated comparative analysis…
Concealed Ambiguity in Nexus-Related Methods
0.001 0.1 10 1000
externality’: cUS/kWh (after Sundqvist et al, 2005)low RISK high
coal
oil
gas
nuclear
hydro
wind
solar
biomass
Energy regulation: most mature, sophisticated comparative analysis…
Concealed Ambiguity in Nexus-Related Methods
0.001 0.1 10 1000
coal
oil
gas
nuclear
hydro
21
wind
solar
biomass
n =
‘externality’: cUS/kWh (after Sundqvist et al, 2005)
minimum maximum25% 75%
low RISK high
Energy regulation: most mature, sophisticated comparative analysis…
Concealed Ambiguity in Nexus-Related Methods
coal
oil
gas
nuclear
hydro
36
20
wind 18
solar 11
biomass 22
31
21
16
n =
…‘sound science’, ‘evidence based’ Nexus analyses justify many policies
Energy regulation: most mature, sophisticated comparative analysis…
Concealed Ambiguity in Nexus-Related Methods
under-determined realities
Framing ‘the Nexus’
‘system’‘focus’
under-determined realities
Framing ‘the Nexus’picture of ‘the Nexus’
‘scope’
‘system’‘focus’
under-determined realities
Framing ‘the Nexus’picture of ‘the Nexus’
‘scope’
‘system’‘focus’
‘cause’
‘effect’
under-determined realities
Framing ‘the Nexus’picture of ‘the Nexus’
environment‘scope’
‘system’‘focus’
picture of ‘the Nexus’subjective framing
‘effect’
under-determined realities
‘cause’local people
Framing ‘the Nexus’
environment
‘system’
under-determined realities diverse picturesplural frames
‘effect’
‘cause’
local people
‘scope’
‘focus’
Framing ‘the Nexus’
plural frames
‘system’
‘cause’
‘effect’
under-determined realities
local people
diverse pictures
‘scope’
‘focus’
Framing ‘the Nexus’
plural frames
‘system’
‘cause’
‘effect’
under-determined realities
local people
diverse pictures
‘scope’
‘focus’
Framing ‘the Nexus’
power in knowledge
‘system’
‘cause’
‘effect’
under-determined realities
local people
diverse pictures
‘scope’
‘focus’
Framing ‘the Nexus’
THE
NEXUS
INPUTS
(aspects taken into
account within
practice of research
or appraisal)
problems,
options,
pros / cons,
issues,
uncertainties,
perspectives
INPUTS
(things that are
taken into account)
Pro
blems, options, pros
/ cons, issues,
uncertainties,
perspectives
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
OUTPUTS
(aspects that are conveyed
outwards into wider discourse)
’Plural conditional’ conclusions…
… if X then A … if Y then B …
Rigour in Nexus-Focused Methodologies
Combining reflection and reflexivity in informing policy and politics
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
decision
analysis
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
sustainability
safety
impacts
Rigour in Nexus-Focused Methodologies
Combining reflection and reflexivity in informing policy and politics
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
citizen’s juries
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
Rigour in Nexus-Focused Methodologies
Combining reflection and reflexivity in informing policy and politics
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
citizen’s juries
participatory
appraisal
q-
method
scientometric
mapping
open
space
multicriteria
mapping
extended
foresightcitizen’s juries
decision
analysis
stakeholder
negotiation
participatory
sensitivity analysis
cost-benefit
analysis risk
assessment
interactive
modelling
structured
interviews
participant
observation
multi-site
ethnographic-
methods
citizen’s juries
consensus
conference
open
hearings
concurrent
evidence
critical
narratives
intervention
futures
PIPA
plural
photovoice
system
histories
innovation
histories
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
Rigour in Nexus-Focused Methodologies
Combining reflection and reflexivity in informing policy and politics
spot-the-
narrative
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
citizen’s juries
decision
analysis
participatory
rural appraisal
stakeholder
negotiation
q-method
sensitivity
analysis
deliberative
mappingscientometric
mapping
open
space
cost-benefit
analysis
risk
assessmen
t
interactive
modelling
structured
interviews
narrative-based
participant
observation
multi-site
ethnographic-
methods
citizen’s juries
consensus
conference
open
hearings
dissenting
opinions
multi-criteria
mapping
extended
foresight
stakeholder
negotiation
cost-benefit
analysis
risk
assessment
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
Power Closes Down Nexus Research and Appraisal
Pressure to command authority, foster trust, secure acceptance, manage blame
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
Challenges for Research and Appraisal
Reflexively means actively balancing bias in conventional appraisal
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
participatory
appraisal
q-
method
open
space
multicriteria
mapping
participatory
sensitivity
analysis
intervention
futures PIPA
plural
photovoice
system
histories
innovation
histories
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal
A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and
policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure
MONODISCIPLINARITY
eg:
Q-method comes out of social psychology
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal
A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and
policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure
MONODISCIPLINARITY
- enquiry is structured by community practices
- institutionalised as “normal science” within paradigm
- authority through self-confident coherence
eg:
in Q-method analysis is subject to
particular assumptions and conventions
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
MONODISCIPLINARITY
- enquiry is structured by community practices
- institutionalised as “normal science” within paradigm
- authority through self-confident coherence
Participatory methods can
also be monodisciplinary
eg:
participatory panel
follows particular rules
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal
A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and
policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal
A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and
policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure
CROSS-DISCIPLINARITY
- task- and context-specific
- allows cross-critique and triangulation
- authority through juxtaposition
eg:
participatory panel provides
complement to discourse analysis
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
MULTIDISCIPLINARITY
- enquiry structured hierarchically
- impressive scope, reassuring applicability
- authority through integration
eg:
integrated assessment
global panels
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal
A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and
policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
INTERDISCIPLINARITY
- enquiry structured by collaboration
- attention targeted on focal problem
- authority thro’ fidelity in addressing complexity
eg:
collaborative networks
multiple partnerships
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal
A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and
policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
- enquiry reflects wider extant framings
- flexible to divergent contexts
- authority thro’ salience and legitimacy
eg:
co-designed with
stakeholders
narrow
broad
closing down opening up
expert /
analytic
participatory /
deliberative
Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal
A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and
policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure
INP
UT
S
OUTPUTS
Diversity: just as no one ‘Nexus’, so for ‘Nexus Method’ or even Methodology
Towards Nexus-Related Capabilities
Broaden Out inputs: issues, options, uncertainties, scenarios, perspectives
Open Up outputs: plural conditionality shows answers depend on questions
Transdisciplinarity: more equal relations between disciplines and beyond
Policy & Politics: not just usual ‘users’ but marginal, vulnerable & democracy
Reflexivity: about framing, & especially about how power imprints knowledge
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