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Special Issue on “Science as a Site of Inequality”
October 17, 2024
Together with an international group of scholars, Dr. Susanne Koch and Prof. Nelius Boshoff have guest edited a Special Issue on inequality in science and its implications for sustainability transformations published in Environmental Science and Policy.
Workshop at second sociological forest symposium
October 17, 2024
Hosted by the Societal Change Unit of the Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA), the second network meeting of scholars doing forest-related sociological research was held in Freiburg (Germany), from 17.-18. October 2024. As part of the symposium, Dr. Susanne Koch conducted as workshop on positionality in forest research.
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FVA BW/Hebermehl
Article on gendered struggles in forest governance research
September 28, 2024
Based on interviews conducted for the In-Forest project, members of the team have published a qualitative analysis shedding light on how African scholars experience gendered struggles in doing governance research.
In-Forest talk at STI 2024 conference
September 26, 2024
As part of a panel on Open Data Sources, Prof. Nelius Boshoff presented preliminary results from a combined bibliometric and content analysis conducted as part of the In-Forest project at the 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators 2024 in Berlin. Ahead of the conference, the team held a hybrid meeting at the Robert K. Merton Center.
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Photo credit: Similo Ngwenya
Contributions to first IUFRO gender analysis and MOOC on Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) in forest-related sectors
September 26, 2024
The Task Force ‘Gender Equality in Forestry’ of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations has published a first comprehensive gender analysis on this global scientific network and launched a Massive Open Online Course on Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) in forest-related sectors. As a member of the Task Force, Dr. Susanne Koch has contributed to both, drawing on her work in the In-Forest project.
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Celebrating Diversity: A Rainbow of People of Different Ages, Races, and Genders illustration generated with artificial intelligence By anavanesagarna (Generated with AI) Copyright holder: Todora Rogelja s.p.
Presentation at EASST-4S
July 23, 2024
PhD researcher Camilla Tetley presented at the 2024 EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Friday 19 July 2024. With the theme “Making and Doing Transformations”, the conference explored the role of STS in making and doing contributions to transformations in an era of grand societal challenges.
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Photo credit: Camilla Tetley
Bibliometric analysis on geographic inequalities in forest science
July 1, 2024
One of questions the In-Forest project addresses is how geographic inequalities manifest in forest science. Led by Prof. Nelius Boshoff at CREST, the team has now published a first paper resulting from a large-scale bibliometric analysis entitled “Geographical inequalities in global forest science: A bibliometric perspective” in Forest Policy and Economics.
In-Forest Talks at the International Forest Policy Meeting 5
May 19, 2024
As part of a panel on forest-related gender research at the IFPM5 (10-12 April 2024), Dr. Susanne Koch shared preliminary insights from an on-going analysis of gendered struggles in forest science carried out as part of the In-Forest project.
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Photo credit: Susanne Koch
In-Forest Workshop in Leiden, Netherlands
April 30th, 2024
From April 26-30th, members of the In-Forest team gathered at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, for a series of face-to-face and hybrid meetings. Hosted by Dr. Rodrigo Costas and Jonathan Dudek, they served as a space to collaboratively work especially on bibliometric data analyses as well as to continue refining and structuring the inquiries ongoing in the other work packages.
New In-Forest related publication on narratives of research collaboration
March 17, 2024
PhD researcher Camilla Tetley and Dr. Susanne Koch have now published a related analysis highlighting narratives of research collaborations mediated by global science-policy documents.
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Article published in Environmental Science & Policy
Joint Research Meeting in Stellenbosch, South Africa
March 3, 2024
For a week from 26 February to 1 March 2024, the members of the In-Forest team gathered in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Hosted by Prof. Nelius Boshoff (co-PI of the project) at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), Stellenbosch University, it served as the second fully in-person meeting for our research group.
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The In-Forest team gathered at CREST; Photo credit: Rolene Langford
Invited In-Forest talk at first Virtual Meeting of the Sociological Forest Research Network
February 22, 2024
Dr. Susanne Koch, Principal Investigator of In-Forest, presented insights from the project in an invited talk at the first virtual meeting of the emerging Sociological Forest Research Network.
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In-Forest talk at the first Sociological Forest Symposium in Germany
January 10, 2024
Dr. Susanne Koch, Principal Investigator of In-Forest, presented the project in a pitch talk at the first Sociological Forest Symposium taking place on 1 December 2023 at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Germany.
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Photo credit: Stephanie Bethmann
Mercator Fellow Dr Amani J. Uisso at CREST
November 14, 2023
Dr. Amani J. Uisso, senior scientist at the Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI) and In-Forest Mercator Fellow, spent a week at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) in Stellenbosch for joint research with Prof. Nelius Boshoff and Dr. Similo Ngwenya.
Special Session at STI-ENID 2023
November 7, 2023
The In-Forest team co-organised a Special Session at the 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI-ENID 2023).
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Photo credit: STI 2023
Joint Research Meeting at CWTS, Leiden
October 30, 2023
Read about the In-Forest team's second face-to-face meeting at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University.
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Screenshot credit: Shizuku Sunagawa
First In-Forest-related paper published
July 28, 2023
Based on a preceding exploratory study and research conducted as part of the In-Forest project, Susanne Koch and Camilla Tetley have published a first co-authored paper in Forest Policy and Economics.
In-Forest presentation at the Nordic STS Conference
June 10, 2023
PhD researcher Camilla Tetley presented at the 6th Nordic STS Conference 2023, which took place at the University of Oslo, from 7-9 June 2023.
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Photo credit: Camilla Tetley
Joint Research Retreat in Munich
February 24, 2023
Read about the In-Forest project team's joint research retreat in Munich, Germany.
On the rise of inequality research: Dr. Susanne Koch interviewed for Nature report
June 24, 2022
Nature has interviewed Dr Susanne Koch for a report on inequality research.
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Nature Report
Workshop “Science as a Site of Inequality” co-hosted by Dr. Susanne Koch and Prof. Nelius Boshoff
May 17, 2022
Dr. Susanne Koch, Principal Investigator in the Science and Technology Policy Group, co-convened the workshop “Science as a Site of Inequality: An Exploratory Workshop for Sharing Evidence and Experience from Environment-Related Research Fields” at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (May 11-13, 2022).