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Innovative Knowledge Production for Capacity Building in Southern Africa

Explore the modes of knowledge production in a capacity-building network in Southern Africa following Gibbons, Limoges, Nowotny's framework. This transdisciplinary approach addresses development challenges, involving varied research teams and partnerships across institutions and communities. Through embedding end users in the research process and democratizing organization, knowledge is negotiated collaboratively and disseminated in non-traditional ways, shaping a diverse funding landscape.

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Innovative Knowledge Production for Capacity Building in Southern Africa

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  1. Knowledge production in a capacity-building network

  2. Southern Africa

  3. Modes of knowledge production • Gibbons, Limoges, Nowotny • Bawa, Jansen, Kraak • Mode 1: disciplinary, small teams, peer-review, hierarchical • Mode 2: transdisciplinary, transinstitutional, contextual, democratic

  4. Research arises in the context of application • We deal with development challenges • Research problem is justified by a science gap in the impact pathway to development

  5. Transdisciplinary • Research team is varied in composition across disciplines and the knowledge produced is part of an evolving framework • Capacity building network is a complex system of many different fields • Teams to address emergent problems

  6. Transinstitutional • Partnerships - MCC • Researchers are in several institutions, of diverse types • Universities core of network • Research institutes • Teams include govt & NGO • Teams work directly with communities eg FFBAR • End users

  7. Embedding end users • Conventional research requires outreach or transfer of results • Mode 2 KP embeds the end user in the research process so that results are also their product • Mzingwane Catchment Council • Farmers • NGOs

  8. Dissemination • Research findings are communicated to the participants in the project, and via networks, but are not necessarily reported in the manner of Mode 1 disciplinary journals • Findings are available in the community, not just in journals

  9. Multiple sources of funding • Not a single grant to fund a project • Everyone brings something to the table • Co-financing • Indirect financing

  10. Democratic organisation • Collaborative team not my research team • Knowledge is produced under negotiation, when the needs of a variety of actors is included

  11. Thank-you

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