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SUMMARY:Public lecture: Does transdisciplinary research actually work?
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DESCRIPTION:Transdisciplinary research is widely advocated as an approach 
 to address complex sustainability challenges. Yet it has rarely been evalu
 ated whether participants actually learn\, change their practices\, or ben
 efit from the collaboration. This talk presents a framework for evaluating
  collaborative learning processes from the perspective of societal stakeho
 lders —i.e. smallholder dairy farmers in Nakuru County\, Kenya. \nDrawin
 g on a two-year collaborative learning process aimed at co-developing inno
 vations to reduce milk losses\, I integrate Kirkpatrick's four-level evalu
 ation scheme with second-order cybernetics and organizational learning the
 ory (Learning Loops) to assess: what farmers found useful about the proces
 s\, what they learned\, how their new knowledge translated into changed pr
 actices\, and what concrete benefits they experienced. Results show that f
 armers engaged in single-\, double-\, and triple-loop learning\, with an a
 verage increase in milk production of 80% across both groups.
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URL:https://www.zef.de/news-press/events/how-do-we-know-if-transdisciplina
 ry-research-actually-works
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