Simon West

Research #methods are not just technical tools but are social practices with ethical and political consequences Here @CarolineSchill and I argue that negotiating the ethical-political aspects of methods is key in #transdisciplinary work rdcu.be/cUpsV 1/12

How do communities impacted by climate change adapt to this ‘new normal’? On 16 January, a research team meets the Iñupiat community of Wainwright in Alaska to discuss experiences and strategies on how to live with change and uncertainty. Learn more: buff.ly/3PCoa2U

New book review! Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches by Susanne Stoll-Kleeman and Susanne Nicolai. Reviewed by @sim_patrickwest. doi.org/10.1080/096440…

The chapter was a collaborative effort with @SashaQuahe & Wiebren Boonstra, and published in this book alongside many other wonderful chapters: upcolorado.com/utah-state-uni… Please DM me for a PDF of the chapter! @sthlmresilience @CrawfordREAD @anthrocommons 5/5

Third, we advocate for the value of 'theorizing together.' This challenges the image of the individual theorizer, and encourages environmental social scientists to theorize collaboratively with communities, citizens, practitioners, knowledge-holders, policy-makers, and more 4/5

The #Anthropocene concept is vital for understanding the environmental effects of modernism, but also itself represents modernist/colonialist knowledge practices. In the @info_iasnr book Opening Windows, we argue this has big implications for #environmental theorizing. 1/5

We use the uncommons - 'interests in common that are not the same interests' - as a way of embracing differences as well as resonances btw them. Wonderful collaboration with @JamilaHaider, Tilman Hertz, @MariaMancillaG , and @micheleleemoore doi.org/10.1080/263959…

There are growing calls for #relational approaches to #sustainability transformations. But different groups discuss relationality in diff. ways. Here we explore five intersecting conversations: Indigenous, systemic, posthumanist, structural, and postdevelopment relationalities.

ANU’s community-based childcare centres are not just about childcare; they build community. They provide amazing care, networks, mutual support and a voice in policies that affect our kids. This petition asks ANU to rethink their closure: chng.it/td7M2kfDjM via @ChangeAUS

I had both my boys in one of these childcare centres so I know how important it is that we maintain not for profit services for families @ourANU. We need to make sure families feel welcome and cared for, even in times of transition. - Sign the Petition! chng.it/jqVkLcRhPc

Join us this Thursday from 12-1pm AEDT for our RE&D Research Notes online seminar with @kirsty_howey from @EnvironmentCen2 on 'Divisible Governance: Making Gas-Fired Futures Amid Climate Collapse' read.crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/ev…

It was great to be a part of the WPR Network online seminar on 'Learning and Teaching WPR'. A fantastic talk from @susa_goodwin about teaching WPR! Looking forward to future events

Devasted for our Interpretive guide @sim_patrickwest to leave fieldwork 4 project Patron of the Seas today! He gave us concrete ways to go about interpretive interviewing e.g. CDE, Concept-Description-Example. We are with dako #utangngaloob to him! #missingyou #westernvisayas

Congratulations to Crawford’s Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt who was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) as part of the Australia Day Honours 2024, in recognition of her service to natural resource management research and innovation, gender equality, and tertiary education!

Best team preparing for fieldwork this week! So excited to have Sir @sim_patrickwest come to give us his inpretive input! And for the amazing Jelai to guide us in this #Ilongo cultural space. Off to explore Patrons of the Seas lizdruryoneill.com/lizs-projects/…

Indigenous-led #monitoring and #evaluation recognises #Indigenous authority + expertise in defining methods, indicators and governance New #OpenAccess paper led by Dr Otto Campion + @ArafuraSRangers presents Yolŋu + Bi monitoring of Healthy Country Plan bit.ly/3RPBNxy

Ambiguity is a key aspect of complex #Sustainability challenges, but is often seen as needing to be removed or reduced. In this new paper led by @ALazurko we argue instead for embracing ambiguity as a generative feature of action towards sustainability bit.ly/48p50on

@JamilaHaider @ALazurko Many thanks Anita for the ideas, collaboration and the animal metaphors!

@ALazurko @sim_patrickwest Thanks for the amazing thought leadership Anita! Pleasure to work with all of you and excited to see how this paper can help with boundary judgements and reflection.

🚨Paper alert!🚨Ambiguity is often an 'elephant in the room' in transdisciplinary research, but ignoring it risks masking the complex and plural nature of sustainability challenges. We draw on critical systems theory to offer a possible path forward. rdcu.be/dtJ88