Engaging in Societal Collaboration Through Reflexivity : Experiences from a Cross-Disciplinary Pilot Course for Faculty

Summary, in English

There is limited understanding of how education initiatives geared toward faculty and support staff can foster a capacity for long-term and integrated societal engagement and collaboration within higher education institutions. Using the experiences from a cross-disciplinary pilot course in Sweden, the current study aims to identify features that explicate how skills and academic rigor for engaging in societal collaboration can be developed toward a “reflexive scholarship of societal collaboration.” Based on a case study of the course, we identify the need for (i) theoretical orientation, (ii) collective reflections among diverse participants, and (iii) application of gained knowledge in real-world contexts. Building on the experiences from the pilot course, we explore and discuss the participants’ reflections on how their partaking in the course may support a reflexive scholarship of societal collaboration. Our study is relevant to managers and policymakers interested in nurturing long-term and integrated collaborations between academia and various societal actors.

• Author: Anna Jonsson; Eugenia Perez Vico; Diamanto Politis
• Editor: Pauline Mattsson; Eugenia Perez Vico; Linus Salö
• Department/s: Organizational Studies; Entrepreneurship; CIRCLE
• Publishing year: 2024
• Language: English
• Pages: 11-32
• Publication/Series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
• Links: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-48799-6_2; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48799-6_2
• Document type: Book chapter
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
• Keywords: Societal Collaboration; reflexivity; Universities; Scholarship Engagement; Knowledge transfer; academia
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 2197-5698; ISSN: 2197-5701; ISBN: 978-3-031-48798-9; ISBN: 978-3-031-48799-6