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- Convenor:
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Paula Schiefer
(Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science)
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- Format:
- Traditional Open Panel
Short Abstract
Bringing together practical experiences and conceptual insights, this panel explores how STS can move from symbolic inclusion to genuine collaboration in environmental research, advancing debates on co-production, interdisciplinarity, and resilient futures.
Description
This panel explores how STS can move beyond token inclusion toward genuine, sustained collaboration in environmental research. Building resilient socio-technical futures requires reimagining and renegotiating how applied research operates across disciplinary boundaries. We invite scholars working at the intersections of STS, environmental science, and applied research to reflect on what meaningful collaboration looks like, and how it can be envisioned, practiced, and maintained over time.
In environmental and natural resource sectors, large impact-oriented research and funding programs increasingly call for interdisciplinarity. Yet, STS engagement within these initiatives often remains superficial or symbolic. How can we move from late-stage add-ons to early, substantive involvement? What forms of co-production allow STS researchers to contribute to and learn from projects in fields like sustainability, climate adaptation, and resource management while keeping a critical reflexivity and methodological integrity?
We especially welcome reflections from researchers navigating collaborations with natural scientists, engineers, policymakers, or industry partners in their day-to-day work. How can STS insights be communicated without dilution? Are epistemological compromises necessary, or can diverse research traditions co-exist and enrich one another?
Possible contributions may address:
• Empirical cases of collaboration between STS and environmental or technical disciplines
• Methods and practices for interdisciplinary co-production
• Negotiating values, politics, and power in sustainability and innovation projects
• The role of STS in shaping responsible and resilient futures within current research and funding landscapes
By integrating practical experiences with conceptual reflections, this panel contributes to ongoing STS debates on practical engagement in environmental domains, boundary-work and knowledge co-production across science, policy, and practice, and the collaborative imagining and construction of resilient socio-technical futures.