Take a moment to recognise the lenses shaping the way you see things
What strategies do you use to identify your participants?
How do you get them into a room for engagement?
Are there any challenges with your strategies?

In order to co-produce knowledge and craft useable knowdge, researchers need to collaborate with the people whose lives are affected by sustainability transformations. Identifying and getting stakeholders to cooperate in the research activities has been presented as a challenge that researchers face while in the field.

What you will achieve with this tool?

Identify stakeholders in instances where this is presented as a challenge.

Explore how to take action

Remember, this is an inspiration guide (not a recipe) to help you decide what will be most transformative for your context. Every context is unique!

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STEP 1 It is important to recognise that stakeholders are diverse and that meeting needs of particular groups requires tailoring distinct approaches to communication and engagement. (Refer to the research methodology tool)
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STEP 2 Recognise that the opportunities for and barriers to collaboration are often context specific, that strategies need to be tailored to particular situations.
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STEP 3 Recognise the challenges of competing cultures (assumptions, norms, incentives, and expectations) that can divide stakeholders/collaborators
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STEP 4 Adopt orientation models that favours learning over knowing. These are needed for research to be interactive, cooperative and based on bringing knowdge and expertise together.

With whom and for whom are you transforming?

Research participants

Which power dynamics might hinder local communities from caring for ecosystems?

Short paragraph indentifying the level and lenght of the action and how it contributes to transformative change in the longterm

References

William Clark : https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/william-clark