Towards Shared Research

Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. »Towards Shared Research« portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive and better understanding of knowledge about African environments.
It is a book for researchers, facilitators and policy-makers to make a case for participatory and integrative approaches resulting in systemic and co-created analyses.



Tobias Haller (Prof. Dr.), born 1965, is a professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland, with a focus on economic, ecological, and political anthropology.
Claudia Zingerli (PhD), born 1973, is a scientific collaborator at the Swiss National Science Foundation and freelancer in diverse activities dealing with knowledge translation/knowledge brokerage and the co-creation of knowledge in science-policy interfaces.