Taming the Anthropocene: Supporting Early Career UK-Chinese Environmental Research Collaborations
My research strives to understand how cultural identities affect UK-China environmental research collaborations and examine how to navigate potential issues caused by linguistic and cultural competencies, and the sharing or renegotiating of values and ideals. Existing research focuses mainly on the organisational and structural dimensions in this context, whereas collaboration practice is a virtually uncharted territory.
I am especially driven to focus on collaborations involving Early Career Researchers, because as a generally younger group, they face greater impacts from climate change yet suffer disproportionate insecurity of research agency compared to other cohorts. My goal is to identify the cultural enablers, blockers, and drivers of such collaborations, so I can demonstrate how cultural epistemological frameworks may help navigate collaboration practice issues. My project will operationalise a framework helping to support British Chinese ECRs to better collaborate in a multicultural domain on environmental research, applying my findings to advance both theory and practice.
Supervisors
- Professor Aimee Ambrose (Sheffield Hallam University)
- Dr Pallavi Singh (Sheffield Hallam University)
