Leonelli, Sabina and Trappes, Rose (2025) Research in the multiplex: Navigating tensions and opportunities in transdisciplinary environments. [Preprint]
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This paper examines the environments in which researchers operate in applied fields such as agricultural and phytosanitary science, where transdisciplinary interactions are the norm. In contrast to understandings of scientific research in terms of distinct traditions, methods and areas of research, we argue that transdisciplinary researchers operate in a highly dynamic, multi-sited and distributed research landscape, which we call multiplex research environments. As we illustrate with two case studies of crop-related research in Ghana and Italy, multiplex research environments are neither consistent nor easy to navigate, due to the presence of diverse, divergent, and dynamic commitments and demands. Individual researchers thus need to continuously negotiate tensions for knowledge to be successfully developed, while also fostering the ability to leverage unexpected exchanges or the absence of certain forms of collaborations towards fruitful forms of discovery.
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| Keywords: | Scientific change; collaboration; research conditions; crop science; entomology; plant-pest interactions; agricultural extension. | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Environmental Science General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Theory Change General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Depositing User: | Sabina Leonelli | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 10 Sep 2025 13:17 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2025 13:17 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 26611 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Environmental Science General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Theory Change General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Date: | 9 September 2025 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26611 |
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