The following is a dialogue between Michael Cox and Praneeta Mudaliar about their experiences and thoughts regarding citation practices and diversity. Michael and Praneeta are grateful to Hita Unnikrishnan, Prakash Kashwan, Divya Gupta, and Mike Schoon for their helpful feedback on this blog entry...
After reading through the book Self-Determination Theory by Ryan and Deci (2018), I have been thinking about the difference between inherent and instrumental goods (or intrinsic vs. extrinsic, take your pick). Something is instrumentally valuable if we only want it to obtain something else, and...
Anuja Date is a PhD student at the Center for Environment and Development, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India. She works on forest governance and rights of forest dwellers. In Part 1, Anuja described her experiences of being under a lockdown in the...
Anuja Date is a PhD student at the Center for Environment and Development, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India. She works on forest governance and rights of forest dwellers. In Part 1 of this blog, Anuja Date describes her experiences of working...
Yim Ming Connie Kwong is co-editor of the newly published book ‘Navigating the Field: Postgraduate Experiences in Social Research’. Below, she shares her personal insights and field reflections in relation to the book. Connie is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Centre...
“But what’s novel about it?” I’ve been asked in committee meetings, academic interviews, and even in the midst of my field research, what exactly was “novel” about certain research questions I posed and the findings and conclusions I presented. At times, it felt like my commitment to actionable...
This is the third in a series of blog posts on the meaning of the design principles. The posts aim to provide a gentle introduction to each of Ostrom’s design principles for sustainable community-based natural resource management. As a reminder, these posts represent my own perspective...
This is the second of a series of blog posts on the meaning of the design principles. The posts aim to provide a gentle introduction to each of Ostrom’s design principles for sustainable community-based natural resource management. Each post includes definitions from the literature...