Early Career Workshop

Researching environment and development knowledge politics in the spaces in between

We held a one-day workshop for early career researchers thinking about the role of knowledge production and expertise in decision making on issues around the environment and/or development. Knowledge practices, infrastructures and epistemologies help explain how policy actors frame and act on issues such as climate change and global poverty (Vanhala et al. 2021; Bandola-Gill, 2022; Borie et al. 2021; Fisher, 2023). These practices are often designed and enacted across multiple organisations, epistemic communities and scales and so present particular methodological and theoretical challenges. The workshop brought together a small group of early career researchers to explore the messy realities of researching knowledge politics in practice. The focus of the workshop was on instigating discussion and sharing experiences and aims to build a supportive network of researchers working on similar issues.