Community Kick-off

Outputs of Wold Café

1. Impact

• What is impact?
  • Have a postitive contribution to society / nature / the entire ecosystem
  • reach society with academic insights (science communication) – also vice versa (include practical insights into academia); have impact with those insights in the world / in practice
  • real world problem driven research
  • co-create knowledge and impact with practice (see also action research)
  • impact = ideas + execution (or observe > create > execute)
  • Dimension of impact
    • through research
    • through teaching
    • on cause / activism
    • Social media
  • consider all effects and all parties involved (human / non-human)
• Why is it important to me?
  • use my time / education / privilege wisely
  • enhance well-being
  • give me a purpose and self-efficacy (do something!)
  • initiate others to start re-thinking; start a movement
• How can I create it?
  • change culture; provide an entertaining platform
  • involvement; non-academic formats to reach public
  • real world problem-driven research
  • work interdisciplinary
  • Changing incentive structures and systems
  • embed human and emotional aspects (speak limbic)

2. Expectations & Contributions

• What are my needs and desires to be addressed by the Impact Scholars Community?
  • Exchange forum; building bridges across institutions; overview of activities at HSG
  • meet people and exchange
  • support group / writing group / inspiration
  • Systems thinking & system dynamics
  • co-authors; sparring partners
• Why am I here today?
  • curiosity
  • leveraging positive impact
  • inspiration
  • see different perspectives
  • exchange
  • Kick-start post-doc life
  • Find common interests and potential collaboration partners
• What can I contribute to the Impact Scholar Community?
  • Links to scholars and ideas
  • ideal that might / will definitely work
  • Practical lens
  • Contacts to corporates
  • (Research) experience (social movements, practice research, environmental data science, sustainability consulting, multi-stakeholder open innovation processes, …)
  • Being a conversation & collaboration partner

3. Organization & Agenda

• How do we want to organize as a community?
  • Let’s build a community!
  • Get inspired through mutual exchange!
  • Find sparring partners
  • Create positive impact and translate research insights outside of academia (IMPACT)
  • Have a virtual space for exchange (documents + communication)
  • Many different communication channels / services / tools discussed, incl. Teams/Sharepoint, Dropbox, Slack, Miro, Trello, Discourse, Excel, Whatsapp, Threema, Signal
  • Meet in person fixed / regularly once a month
  • bigger and smaller meetings
  • develop a backlog of topics and a voting system to select topics
  • Share participant lists and results of meetings
• What formats would be cool?
  • Have a good mix of events / formats
  • Guets speakers
  • (Paper) presentations and discussions
  • workshops / exchanges / community meetings
  • bounce research ideas
  • Newsletter
  • Science slams
  • Brownbag lunches
  • “light style” e.g. my topic in 180 sec / 1 page
  • paper collaborations
  • Art / Exhibition projects
  • For research
    • Collaboration and get new insights faster (Find co-authors)
    • Share data sets
    • Get and give feedback from an outside perspective
    • Leverage each others networks (e.g. practice partners or other networks)
• What topics do we want to discuss?
  • (we did not really talk a lot about topics yet)