Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

This module will bring together students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to unite in a series of shared problem-solving tasks; the importance of transdisciplinary dialogue to the co-creation of impactful solutions in complex systems will be established theoretically and experientially.
Stakeholders from a range of organisations will contribute a series of guest lectures and pose challenges that they need behavioural insights from our students to help solve. Prior to this, students will engage with the theoretical, philosophical, pedagogical, and practical foundations on which to build their solutions. Knowledge that is being developed in the simultaneous core modules will feed into this work.

For illustrative purposes:
• Context and scene-setting: Rationalising the focus on dialogue, collaborative working, and the “transdisciplinary” aspect (including critical interrogation of case studies from the literature).
• Understanding the foundations of knowledge co-production: Awareness of one’s biases and cognitive limitations, and organisational factors that influence collaborative working (e.g., diversity, systemic practices, policy and priorities, trust and ‘psychological safety’).
• Skill development: Theories and frameworks that facilitate dialogue, collaborative problem-solving, and knowledge co-production, with corresponding practical guidance for students to use in the co-production seminars and associated coursework.
• A focus on research methods that align with the philosophy of dialogue and knowledge co-production.
• Guest lectures and challenge-setting; group-work seminars and follow-up homework where solutions are co-produced in small groups and shared with the wider class. Students will thus appraise the quality of their classmates’ solutions.