Roles and Competencies in Transdisciplinary Practices

This part of the edited volume explores how conceptualizations of transdisciplinary knowledge development processes, guided by transformative visions, materialize in engaged research practices. In this context, researchers grapple with navigating diverse rolesRoles and reflecting on their positionalitypositionality. In addition, a reflexive, situated research practice demands a careful assembly and application of a wide variety of competencies to effectively implement and navigate these roles. By connecting theory-based approaches with empirical examples drawn from various transdisciplinary projects, this part of the book aims to cultivate a nuanced understanding of how roles and competencies contribute to shaping the emerging profile of the ‘transformative transdisciplinary researcher’.