Finding Sustainability Podcast

Michael and Stefan spoke with Jessica Cockburn, a Lecturer in Environmental Science at Rhodes University, in Grahamstown, South Africa. Jessica identifies as a "pracademic" who often works with local partners to explore how actors across a variety of contexts interact to address sustainability challenges. Her work is highly collaborative. Among the groups she engages with is the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS): https://pecs-science.org/. Topics of the interview include: The use of "critical realist" philosophy as a basis for engaged research. The challenge of "pracademics": practical and ethical demands of conducting transdisciplinary research with local partners. Empirical analysis of "patchy" watershed-scale governance among heterogeneous actor groups. Jessica's personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/jesscockburn/home Twitter: https://twitter.com/jess_cockburn Jessica's paper that Michael mentioned: Cockburn, Jessica, Georgina Cundill, Sheona Shackleton, Mathieu Rouget, Marijn Zwin