Christian Erik Pohl

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Pohl

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Christian Erik

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0000-0002-7935-464X

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02351 - TdLab / TdLab

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Methoden transdisziplinärer Forschung
Bergmann, Matthias; Jahn, Thomas; Knobloch, Tobias; et al. (2010)
Solving Problems through Transdisciplinary Research and Integration
Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude; Pohl, Christian Erik; Bammer, Gabriele (2010)
The Oxford handbook of interdisciplinarity
Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do Montado, Alentejo, Portugal
Guimarães, M. Helena; Jacinto, Gonçalo; Isidoro, Catarina; et al. (2024)
Sustainability Science
Evaluation plays a pivotal role in transdisciplinary (TD) research, often discussed during funding stages or when assessing project impacts. A few studies delve into the participant perspective when examining the quality of transdisciplinarity. Our work contributes to this area of assessment. Rather than providing a definitive definition of transdisciplinarity, we developed a questionnaire to evaluate a set of TD principles within a specific TD initiative. We collected insights from 100 individuals out of a pool of 200 participants engaged in a TD initiative since 2016. Given the long-term nature of the case study, our sample included both frequent and occasional participants. Using non-parametric statistical, we concluded that frequent participants express higher satisfaction with their involvement, identify more outcomes stemming from their participation, and assign greater importance to TD principles. These findings highlight the significant impact of investing in long-term TD initiatives. Additionally, our questionnaires featured open-ended questions to capture participants’ individual definition of the initiative, along with their perceived benefits and drawbacks. Through content analysis, we identified two distinct discourses: positivism and postpositivism. The positivist discourse predominantly features male participants over 60 years of age, primarily from the research community. These participants express lower satisfaction with their participation and assign less value to TD principles. We found no association between positivism/postpositivism and participation frequency (i.e., frequent/casual). This suggests that these two discourses can coexist and interact within a TD environment. Nevertheless, the perceived value of TD is not uniform across these groups, indicating that TD may not align with everyone’s objectives, even in complex contexts where the approach is considered essential.
Exploring transdisciplinary integration within a large research program: Empirical lessons from four thematic synthesis processes
Hoffmann, Sabine; Pohl, Christian Erik; Hering, Janet G. (2017)
Research Policy
EVOlvINC: Evaluating knowledge integration capacity in multistakeholder governance
Hitziger, Martin; Aragrande, Maurizio; Berezowski, John A.; et al. (2019)
Ecology and Society
Research and policy processes in many fields, such as sustainability and health, are increasingly relying on transdisciplinary cooperation among a multitude of governmental, nongovernmental, and private actors from local to global levels. In the absence of hierarchical chains of command, multistakeholder governance may accommodate conflicting or diverse interests and facilitate collective action, but its effectiveness depends on its capacity to integrate systems, transformation, and target knowledge. Approaches to foster such governance are nascent and quickly evolving, and methodological standards to facilitate comparison and learning from best practice are needed. However, there is currently no evaluation approach that (i) comprehensively assesses the capacity for knowledge integration in multistakeholder governance, (ii) draws on the best available knowledge that is being developed in various fields, and (iii) combines a systematic and transferable methodological design with pragmatic feasibility. We brought together 20 experts from institutions in nine countries, all working on evaluation approaches for collaborative science–policy initiatives. In a synthesis process that included a 2-day workshop and follow-up work among a core group of participants, we developed a tool for evaluating knowledge integration capacity in multistakeholder governance (EVOLvINC). Its 23 indicators incorporate previously defined criteria and components of transdisciplinary evaluations into a single, comprehensive framework that operationalizes the capacity for integrating systems, target, and transformation knowledge during an initiative’s (a) design and planning processes at the policy formulation stage, (b) organization and working processes at the implementation stage, and (c) sharing and learning processes at the evaluation stage of the policy cycle. EVOLvINC is (i) implemented through a questionnaire, (ii) builds on established indicators where possible, (iii) offers a consistent and transparent semiquantitative scoring and aggregation algorithm, and (iv) uses spider diagrams for visualizing results. The tool builds on experience and expertise from both the northern and southern hemispheres and was empirically validated with seven science–policy initiatives in six African and Asian countries. As a generalized framework, EVOLvINC thus enables a structured reflection on the capacity of multistakeholder governance processes to foster knowledge integration. Its emphasis on dialog and exploration allows adaptation to contextual specificities, highlights relative strengths and weaknesses, and suggests avenues for shaping multistakeholder governance toward mutual learning, capacity building, and strengthened networks. The validation suggests that the adaptive capacity of multistakeholder governance could be best enhanced by considering systems characteristics at the policy formulation stage and fostering adaptive and generic learning at the evaluation stage of the policy cycle.
Transdisciplinary collaboration in environmental research
Pohl, Christian Erik (2005)
Futures
Structuring complexity for tailoring research contributions to sustainable development
Wülser, Gabriela; Pohl, Christian Erik; Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude (2012)
Sustainability Science
The interaction between science and society in transdisciplinary environment research
Stauffacher, Michael; Valsangiacomo, Antonio; Pohl, Christian Erik (2008)
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Researchers' roles in knowledge co-production
Pohl, Christian Erik; Rist, Stephan; Zimmermann, Anne; et al. (2010)
Science and Public Policy
Linking transdisciplinary research projects with science and practice at large: Introducing insights from knowledge utilization
Hoffmann, Sabine; Thompson Klein, Julie; Pohl, Christian Erik (2019)
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