■以健康为重点的研究资助者越来越多地支持研究健康的多国研究伙伴关系,全球环境中的城市发展和公平。发展有益于社会的新知识,这些资助要求研究人员整合不同的知识和数据,并管理与殖民地研究相关的方面,比如权力失衡和认知不公。我们与多个中高收入国家的合作伙伴进行了研究,以制定跨学科研究计划,旨在将股权嵌入到方法和融资模式中。
■平行于文献综述,我们使用参与式和社会研究方法来确定主要研究的案例研究城市,并为我们的研究设计提供信息。我们对美国知情和同意的可持续城市发展专家进行了半结构化访谈(n=23)。我们与我们的全球咨询小组(n=14)共同开发了我们的研究方法,并举办了一个参与式研讨会(n=30),以确定案例研究地点,还通过与国际可持续发展学术专家的对话(n=27)获得了信息。
■通过文献回顾我们发现,有必要研究城市转型的背景前提条件,殖民主义对理解城市如何变化的影响,以及标准发展实践未能满足所有居民和地球的需求。通过专家输入和文献,我们发现非殖民化和讲故事的方法可以帮助我们展示城市转型故事背后的复杂性,特别是边缘化人口在创造长期变化中的作用。
■进行研究以发展公平设计的多国研究合作有多种好处。我们建立了新的合作伙伴关系,共同开发了我们的研究方法,创造对不同合作者学科观点和机构要求的新理解。通过调查美国可持续发展参与者的信息需求,并设计我们的研究来满足这些需求,我们增加了我们的研究产生影响的可能性。
项目名称:动员有关城市变革的知识以促进公平和可持续性:发展“变革故事”,多国跨学科研究。我们的团队最初包括伦敦的研究人员,后来扩大到包括具有城市发展专业知识的国际合作者,公共卫生和人类学。该项目主要通过在线研讨会和访谈(2022年5月至12月)进行,在瓦伦西亚有一个面对面的研讨会,西班牙(2022年10月)。研究资助者最近增加了对研究城市卫生公平的多国伙伴关系的支持。然而,通常缺乏资金来发展这些研究,以支持不同领域的整合并管理与殖民地研究相关的方面,比如权力失衡和贬低某些形式的知识。我们与多个国家的合作伙伴进行了研究,以制定跨学科研究计划,旨在将公平嵌入我们的方法中。我们使用文献综述和社会研究方法(94名参与者)来开发案例研究城市和我们的研究设计。我们发现,社区参与城市治理对于实现公平和健康至关重要,然而,它在现状发展模式中仍然被低估,破坏城市支持人类和地球的潜力。我们相信,我们的方法为其他多国跨学科研究提供了宝贵的学习。
UNASSIGNED: Health-focused research funders increasingly support multi-country research partnerships that study health,
urban development and equity in global settings. To develop new knowledge that benefits society, these grants require researchers to integrate diverse knowledges and data, and to manage research-related aspects of coloniality, such as power imbalances and epistemic injustices. We conducted research to develop a transdisciplinary study proposal with partners in multiple middle and high income countries, aiming to embed equity into the methodology and funding model.
UNASSIGNED: Parallel to literature review, we used participatory and social research methods to identify case study cities for our primary
study and to inform our
study design. We conducted semi-structured interviews with informed and consented sustainable urban development experts in the USA (n=23). We co-developed our research approach with our global advisory group (n=14) and conducted a participatory workshop (n=30) to identify case study sites, also informed by conversations with international academic experts in sustainable development (n=27).
UNASSIGNED: Through literature review we found that there is a need to study the contextual pre-conditions of
urban transformation, the influence of coloniality on understandings of how cities can change and the failure of standard development practices to meet the needs of all residents and the planet. Through expert input and literature we found that decolonial and storytelling methods may help us show the complexities behind stories of urban transformation, particularly the role of marginalized populations in creating long-term change.
UNASSIGNED: There are multiple benefits of conducting research to develop an equitably designed multi-country research collaboration. We built new partnerships and co-developed our research approach, creating new understanding of diverse collaborators\' disciplinary perspectives and institutional requirements. By investigating the informational needs of U.S. sustainable development actors and designing our study to meet these needs, we have increased the likelihood that our research will create impact.
Project title: Mobilizing knowledge about urban change for equity and sustainability: developing ‘Change Stories’, a multi-country transdisciplinary study. Our team initially included researchers in London and later expanded to include international collaborators with expertise in urban development, public health and anthropology. This project was primarily conducted through online workshops and interviews (May – Dec 2022), with one in-person workshop in Valencia, Spain (Oct 2022). Research funders have recently increased support for multi-country partnerships that
study urban health equity. However, there is often a lack of funding to develop these studies in a way that supports integration of diverse fields and manages research-related aspects of coloniality, such as power imbalances and devaluing certain forms of knowledge. We conducted research to develop a transdisciplinary study proposal with partners in multiple countries, aiming to embed equity into our approach. We used literature review alongside social research methods (94 participants) to develop case study cities and our
study design. We found that community involvement in urban governance is important for achieving equity and health, yet it remains under-valued in status quo development models, undermining the potential for cities to support people and the planet. We believe that our approach offers valuable learning for other multi-country transdisciplinary studies.