What Is Participation? Design Leads the Way to a Cross-Disciplinary Framework

Marie Harder is Professor of Sustainable Waste Management at the University of Brighton, and was coordinator of the EU FP7 Research project entitled “The Development of Indicators & Assessment Tools for CSO Projects Promoting Values-based Education for Sustainable Development.” For nine months of the year, since September 2011, she has worked at Fudan University Shanghai as a China National Thousand Talents Professor.

Gemma Burford is Research Fellow in Sustainable Development at the University of Brighton and has previously worked in intercultural education and health care research in Tanzania. Her current research interests include interdisciplinary studies of participation, intersubjectivity, and the co-design and infrastructuring of values-based monitoring and evaluation systsems in organizations.

Elona Hoover is Research Officer in Sustainable Development at the University of Brighton. Her interdisciplinary research interests include values and the practice of sustainable development, organizational change for sustainability and the development of alternative and resilient food systems. She has experience in participatory values-based evaluation for civil society organizations and community engagement work.