Step 4 – Actions

On this page are some prompts to help you consider trade-offs and tensions in your research.

IN RESEARCH DESIGN THIS COULD INCLUDE:
  • Including under-researched dimensions of sustainability or marginalised perspectives.
  • Considering multiple dimensions of sustainability.
  • Defining intended synergies or sustainability risks and trade-offs.
  • Collaborating with other disciplines.
  • Literature review outside usual disciplinary boundaries.
  • Participatory research design to enable community or person led research agenda setting.
IN IMPACT MEASUREMENT THIS COULD INCLUDE:
  • Measuring and reporting on sustainability impacts across multiple dimensions.
  • Reporting on differential impacts on different groups of people.
  • Measuring and reporting on sustainability synergies risks or trade-offs.
  • Reporting on who was involved or consulted in the project, or partnerships or structures that were established.
IN METHODOLOGY THIS COULD INCLUDE:
  • Data collection and analysis to include multiple dimensions of sustainability.
IN DISSEMINATION KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER THIS COULD INCLUDE:
  • Implementing multi-level knowledge transfer practices, for example targeting institutions communities and individuals.

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