ABSTRACT
This chapter refl ects a particular view of transdisciplinary research, developed through close to 20 years of transdisciplinary research at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney. Our Institute’s mission is to ‘create change towards a sustainable future’. Our transdisciplinary research practice grew up just ahead of the rapid expansion of transdisciplinarity, when much less had been written about the topic. We did our own meaningmaking, particularly within our research student program, and developed ways of talking about, planning and implementing, and evaluating transdisciplinary research (see for example Willetts and Mitchell 2006; Mitchell and Willetts 2009). Nascent versions of the guidelines presented in this chapter emerged in that environment, providing a foundation for Mitchell’s conceptualisation of what constitutes transdisciplinary research in practice and therefore who might be involved and how that involvement might be orchestrated. In this chapter, we present the guidelines as a refl ective/refl exive lens (see Bolton 2010) for learning how to improve transdisciplinary research praxis.
