Expert organizations as a space for early-career development: Engaging in service while balancing expectations on research and teaching

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2022-11-16 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2022.2148154

Karin M. Gustafsson

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ABSTRACT By studying the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) as a community of practice and learning space for academic identity development, this paper studies the creation of environmental expertise within expert organizations. The study focuses its analysis on how IPBES through its fellowship programme contributes to academic identity development among early-career researchers, including providing new contextual references to understand what it means to engage in and balance biodiversity research, teaching, and service. The study is based on interviews with early-career researchers who participated in the production of the IPBES’s Global Assessment Report. The study shows how the IPBES fellowship programme, by introducing its fellows into the organization’s community of practice simultaneously, contributes to their academic identity development and the creation and maintenance of the boundaries of environmental expertise. The analysis further shows how the fellows develop an academic identity that unites two different communities of practice of equal importance for their understanding of what they are supposed to do as academics and widens their understanding of what it means to be a successful academic.

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专家组织作为早期职业发展的空间:在平衡研究和教学期望的同时从事服务

本文通过将生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台(IPBES)作为学术认同发展的实践和学习空间，研究专家组织内部环境专业知识的创造。该研究重点分析了IPBES如何通过其奖学金计划促进早期职业研究人员的学术认同发展，包括提供新的背景参考，以理解从事和平衡生物多样性研究、教学和服务意味着什么。这项研究是基于对参与IPBES全球评估报告制作的早期职业研究人员的采访。这项研究表明，IPBES奖学金项目通过同时将其研究员引入该组织的实践社区，如何有助于他们的学术身份发展，以及创造和维护环境专业知识的界限。分析进一步显示了研究员是如何形成一种学术认同的，这种认同将两个不同的实践群体联系在一起，对于他们理解自己作为学者应该做什么同样重要，并扩大了他们对成为一名成功的学者意味着什么的理解。

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Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.