This article suggests that transdisciplinary sustainability research can become more transformative by encouraging reflexivity – active individual and collective critical reflection, helping decisions that influence which perspectives are included or excluded in research explicit.
Abstract
Transdisciplinary sustainability scientists work with many different actors in pursuit of change. In so doing they make choices about why and how to engage with different perspectives in their research. Reflexivity – active individual and collective critical reflection – is considered an important capacity for researchers to address the resulting ethical and practical challenges. We developed a framework for reflexivity as a transformative capacity in sustainability science through a critical systems approach, which helps make any decisions that influence which perspectives are included or excluded in research explicit. We suggest that transdisciplinary sustainability research can become more transformative by nurturing reflexivity.
Reference
Lazurko A, Moore M-L, Haider LJ, West S, McCarthy DDP. Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach. Global Sustainability. 2025;8:e1. doi:10.1017/sus.2024.49
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