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1 Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities Workshop 29 and 30 June 2015 University of Sussex Wifi: Conferences Password: state his solid powder #transdisciplinarymethods

2 Developing Nexus Capabilities : towards transdisciplinary methodologies Andy Stirling SPRU & STEPS Centre University of Sussex presentation to Nexus Network workshop on Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities University of Sussex, 29 th June 2015

3 Background Approach Review of >100 different kinds of Nexus-related method - relations & practices: analytic / interactive - epistemic cultures: quantitative / hybrid / qualitative - styles of reasoning: deductive / inductive / abductive - procedural functions: frameworks / techniques / tools

4 Concealed Ambiguity in Nexus-Related Methods Energy regulation: most mature, sophisticated comparative analysis

5 Concealed Ambiguity in Nexus-Related Methods Energy regulation: most mature, sophisticated comparative analysis coal oil gas nuclear hydro wind solar biomass low RISK high externality : c US /kwh (after Sundqvist et al, 2005)

6 Concealed Ambiguity in Nexus-Related Methods Energy regulation: most mature, sophisticated comparative analysis n = coal oil gas nuclear minimum 25% 75% maximum 21 hydro wind solar biomass low RISK high externality : c US /kwh (after Sundqvist et al, 2005)

7 Concealed Ambiguity in Nexus-Related Methods Energy regulation: most mature, sophisticated comparative analysis n = coal 36 oil 20 gas 31 nuclear 21 hydro 16 wind 18 solar 11 biomass 22 sound science, evidence based Nexus analyses justify many policies

8 Framing the Nexus under-determined realities

9 Framing the Nexus picture of the Nexus under-determined realities focus system

10 Framing the Nexus picture of the Nexus under-determined realities scope focus system

11 Framing the Nexus picture of the Nexus under-determined realities scope focus system effect cause

12 Framing the Nexus subjective framing picture of the Nexus under-determined realities scope environment focus system effect local people cause

13 Framing the Nexus plural frames diverse pictures under-determined realities scope environment focus system cause effect local people

14 Framing the Nexus plural frames diverse pictures under-determined realities scope focus system cause effect local people

15 Framing the Nexus plural frames diverse pictures under-determined realities scope focus system cause effect local people

16 Framing the Nexus power in knowledge diverse pictures under-determined realities scope THE NEXUS focus system cause effect local people

17 Rigour in Nexus-Focused Methodologies Combining reflection and reflexivity in informing policy and politics closing down opening up INPUTS expert / analytic (things (aspects that taken are into taken account into within account) Pro practice of research or appraisal) narrow problems, options, pros / cons, participatory / issues, deliberative blems, uncertainties, options, pros / perspectives cons, issues, uncertainties, perspectives broad OUTPUTS (aspects that are conveyed outwards into wider discourse) Plural conditional conclusions if X then A if Y then B

18 INPUTS Rigour in Nexus-Focused Methodologies Combining reflection and reflexivity in informing policy and politics closing down OUTPUTS opening up narrow expert / analytic safety decision analysis participatory / deliberative impacts broad sustainability

19 INPUTS Rigour in Nexus-Focused Methodologies Combining reflection and reflexivity in informing policy and politics closing down OUTPUTS opening up narrow expert / analytic citizen s juries participatory / deliberative broad

20 INPUTS Rigour in Nexus-Focused Methodologies Combining reflection and reflexivity in informing policy and politics closing down OUTPUTS opening up expert / analytic participatory / deliberative narrow broad cost-benefit analysis risk assessment stakeholder negotiation scientometric mapping consensus conference participant observation structured interviews citizen s juries citizen s interactive juries modelling decision analysis open hearings intervention futures innovation histories PIPA critical narratives extended foresight participatory sensitivity analysis system histories q- method multi-site ethnographicmethods concurrent evidence plural photovoice participatory appraisal multicriteria mapping open space

21 INPUTS Power Closes Down Nexus Research and Appraisal Pressure to command authority, foster trust, secure acceptance, manage blame closing down OUTPUTS opening up expert / analytic participatory / deliberative narrow broad cost-benefit analysis risk assessment stakeholder t negotiation interactive modelling consensus conference narrative-based participant observation open hearings structured interviews citizen s juries decision analysis participatory rural appraisal scientometric mapping sensitivity analysis extended foresight spot-thenarrative deliberative mapping multi-site ethnographicmethods dissenting opinions q-method multi-criteria mapping open space

22 INPUTS Challenges for Research and Appraisal Reflexively means actively balancing bias in conventional appraisal closing down OUTPUTS opening up narrow expert / analytic plural photovoice participatory sensitivity analysis participatory / deliberative participatory appraisal system histories multicriteria mapping broad innovation histories intervention futures PIPA q- method open space

23 Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal INPUTS A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure closing down OUTPUTS opening up narrow MONODISCIPLINARITY expert / analytic participatory / deliberative eg: Q-method comes out of social psychology broad

24 Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal INPUTS A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure closing down OUTPUTS opening up narrow MONODISCIPLINARITY expert / analytic - enquiry is structured by community practices - institutionalised as normal science within paradigm - authority through self-confident coherence participatory / deliberative broad eg: in Q-method analysis is subject to particular assumptions and conventions

25 Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal INPUTS A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure closing down OUTPUTS opening up narrow MONODISCIPLINARITY expert / analytic - enquiry is structured by community practices - institutionalised as normal science within paradigm - authority through self-confident coherence participatory / deliberative broad Participatory methods can also be monodisciplinary eg: participatory panel follows particular rules

26 Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal INPUTS A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure closing down OUTPUTS opening up narrow CROSS-DISCIPLINARITY expert / analytic - task- and context-specific - allows cross-critique and triangulation - authority through juxtaposition participatory / deliberative eg: participatory panel provides complement to discourse analysis broad

27 Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal INPUTS A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure closing down OUTPUTS opening up narrow MULTIDISCIPLINARITY expert / analytic - enquiry structured hierarchically - impressive scope, reassuring applicability - authority through integration participatory / deliberative eg: integrated assessment global panels broad

28 Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal INPUTS A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure closing down OUTPUTS opening up narrow INTERDISCIPLINARITY expert / analytic - enquiry structured by collaboration - attention targeted on focal problem - authority thro fidelity in addressing complexity participatory / deliberative eg: collaborative networks multiple partnerships broad

29 Power Closes Down Research and Appraisal INPUTS A responsibility for neutrality means independent innovation research and policy appraisal should deliberately counter pressures for closure closing down OUTPUTS opening up narrow TRANSDISCIPLINARITY expert / analytic - enquiry reflects wider extant framings - flexible to divergent contexts - authority thro salience and legitimacy participatory / deliberative eg: co-designed with stakeholders broad

30 Towards Nexus-Related Capabilities Diversity: just as no one Nexus, so for Nexus Method or even Methodology Reflexivity: about framing, & especially about how power imprints knowledge Broaden Out inputs: issues, options, uncertainties, scenarios, perspectives Open Up outputs: plural conditionality shows answers depend on questions Transdisciplinarity: more equal relations between disciplines and beyond Policy & Politics: not just usual users but marginal, vulnerable & democracy