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Winners of the 2023 ONE-SIM Outreach Award for sustainability research make the case for going deep as well as broad. Communities matter, not just clicks.
Co-creation
Bridge the gap between research and practice. Academic collaborations with practitioners can result in better research and real impact.
These NBS resources show how business leaders and academics can learn from each other and co-create knowledge for a sustainable future.
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The annual ONE-SIM Outreach Award recognizes research on sustainability that reaches broader audiences. 2022 Award finalists share six tips for outreach.
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Development research in remote communities continued during COVID-19 because of digital tools and local involvement. Researchers offer lessons in how to adapt.
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Work should nurture us, not exhaust us. How can academia achieve this?
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For researchers to offer practical advice for managers, we need to change the way we research. We suggest a new approach.
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To build the future, we need to imagine it. A perfect society will be one with greater opportunity, meaning, and balance.
The Impact Challenge
Intractable sustainability issues require problem solvers to come together. Practitioners and researchers can bring complementary insights to co-create knowledge for sustainability impact. However, often researchers see impact as a translation problem: findings need to be translated into language managers can understand and disseminated effectively.
But translation only goes so far in creating real change. What if impact is reframed as a knowledge production problem?[1] Then, the focus shifts from how researchers provide managers with the right answer to how to integrate academic and practitioner knowledge for unique insights.
Despite its promise, knowledge co-creation with practitioners is neither easy nor incentivized.
NBS's Co-Creation Initiative
NBS seeks to help researchers navigate the path of co-creation with practitioners — by learning from each other and sharing challenges and advice.
We want to build resources that offer insights to researchers on key questions such as:
How do I do collaborative research (e.g., engaged scholarship, insider-outsider research) and how do I do it well?
How do I publish such research in top journals?
How do I manage my researcher identity in academic circles that may not value such collaborative work?
We also want to build a community of researchers who share their experiences and offer insights to each other.
Get Involved
Subscriber to our academic newsletter, the Researcher Update, to receive the latest co-creation guidance.
We also hope you’ll contribute your own co-creation insights. Please share your interest by emailing Garima Sharma.