UPCOMING EVENT: Transdisciplinarity for Global Sustainable Development [24 January 2023]

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Transdisciplinarity for Global Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Research and Teaching

Transdisciplinarity for Global Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Research and Teaching

24 January 2023, Smart Classroom, 7th Floor, Faculty of Political Science,

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and online 

Co-organized by M.A. and Ph.D. Program in International Development Studies (MAIDS-GRID) and Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University; School for Cross-faculty Studies, The University of Warwick; and Chulalongkorn University UNESCO Chair in Resource Governance and Futures Literacy

Please register to join the event here.

Globally and in Southeast Asia there has been a growing interest in transdisciplinary approaches to understand and act on urgent global sustainability challenges. These have ranged from urban planning and design, to rethinking education, to responding to climate change. Transdisciplinary approaches are intended to catalyze the collaboration of researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds together with community representatives and practitioners who may include state agencies, civil society organizations, and private sector. When undertaken well, it offers the possibility of new forms of accountability between academic researchers and society, given that core to transdisciplinarity is building trusted relationships and undertaking knowledge co-production.  

Transdisciplinary approaches draw on new principles for organizing and conducting research and teaching. Whilst experience on transdisciplinary approaches is growing, there are challenges to undertaking transdisciplinary approaches, ranging from how to effectively build an interdisciplinary academic research team and foster trusted working relationships with collaborators, to how to successfully co-design and implement research projects, and how to ensure that knowledge is actionable and simultaneously solves societal challenges whilst also transferring gained knowledge to other contexts. How universities can teach transdisciplinary approaches and be organized to promote and facilitate it is also an emerging question.

The objective of this seminar is to share experience and identify promising approaches to strengthen transdisciplinary research and teaching to respond to complex global sustainable development challenges.

Speakers

Opening remarks:

  • Dr. Bhanubhatra Jittiang, Assistant Dean for International Affairs and Director of the M.A. and Ph.D. Program in International Development Studies (MAIDS-GRID)

Speakers:

  • Dr. Naruemon Thabchumpon, Associate Professor and Director of Asian Research Center for Migration (ARCM), Chulalongkorn University

  • Dr. Marta Guerriero, Associate Professor and Head of International Partnerships, Global Sustainable Development, School for Cross-faculty Studies, The University of Warwick

  • Dr. Carl Middleton, Assistant Professor and Director of Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Chair:

  • Dr. Jessica Savage-Wilkes, Associate Professor, Global Sustainable Development, School for Cross-faculty Studies, The University of Warwick

Concluding remarks:

  • Dr. Stephanie Panichelli, Professor and Head of School, School for Cross-faculty Studies, The University of Warwick

For enquiries, please contact Dr. Carl Middleton.