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...
This is the first of a series of posts on the meaning of the design principles which aims to provide general guidance for operationalizing the design principles for research on the governance of social-ecological systems. The posts will adopt a common structure to provide definitions through...
Chapter 0: The Measurement Challenge Well, hello everybody! It’s been quite a long time since I managed to find the time to write a post for the In Common Podcast blog. Initially I was really hoping to use this blog to solicit the perspectives and opinions of the listeners of the...
I recently attended an in-person, outside and socially distanced of course, meeting with project collaborators. Although it was fairly clear that the pandemic and six months of living in our own little social bubbles had taken a toll on our social skills, it was really nice to see people...
The Environmental Social Sciences Network was established as a resource for researchers to connect, share ideas and research through blogs, podcasts and social media, and generally support advances in the theory and practice of the environmental social sciences. Interestingly many of the...