Knowledge production in a capacity-building network

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Knowledge production in a capacity-building
network
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Modes of knowledge production

• Gibbons, Limoges, Nowotny
• Bawa, Jansen, Kraak
• Mode 1 disciplinary, small teams, peer-review,
  hierarchical
• Mode 2 transdisciplinary, transinstitutional,
  contextual, democratic

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Research arises in the context of application

• We deal with development challenges
• Research problem is justified by a science gap in
  the impact pathway to development

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Transdisciplinary

• Research team is varied in composition across
  disciplines and the knowledge produced is part of
  an evolving framework
• Capacity building network is a complex system of
  many different fields
• Teams to address emergent problems

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Transinstitutional

• Partnerships - MCC
• Researchers are in several institutions, of
  diverse types
• Universities core of network
• Research institutes
• Teams include govt NGO
• Teams work directly with communities eg FFBAR
• End users

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Embedding end users

• Conventional research requires outreach or
  transfer of results
• Mode 2 KP embeds the end user in the research
  process so that results are also their product
• Mzingwane Catchment Council
• Farmers
• NGOs

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Dissemination

• Research findings are communicated to the
  participants in the project, and via networks,
  but are not necessarily reported in the manner of
  Mode 1 disciplinary journals
• Findings are available in the community, not just
  in journals

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Multiple sources of funding

• Not a single grant to fund a project
• Everyone brings something to the table
• Co-financing
• Indirect financing

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Democratic organisation

• Collaborative team not my research team
• Knowledge is produced under negotiation, when the
  needs of a variety of actors is included

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