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PRISM is a JISCmail group for Postgraduate Researchers Interested in Sustainability Matters

Dr Jo Anna Reed Johnson will be discussing critical realism as a research paradigm for sustainability and Dr Andrea Wheeler will be sharing her experience of running a post-doctoral interdisciplinary research project. This seminar is open to all interested parties free of charge.

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Regards

Glenn Strachan

Senior Research Fellow

International Research Institute in Sustainability

University of Gloucestershire

Dunholme Villa

The Park

Cheltenham

GL50 2RH

07974 432644

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This is a seminar for postgraduate researchers

interested in sustainability.

Aims:

• To explore critical realism as a research

paradigm for sustainability.

• To explore the challenges of

interdisciplinary research in sustainability

in a post-doctoral setting.

Presenters:

Dr Jo Anna Reed Johnson has recently

completed her PhD on ESD in English and

South African EcoSchools.

Dr Andrea Wheeler has recently completed

an ESRC interdisciplinary post-doctoral

research project.

Programme

11.15 Welcome and Introductions

11.30 Developing a Critical Research Paradigm that

Reflects the Complexities of Sustainability – Dr Jo Anna

Reed Johnson

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Interdisciplinarity and Sustainability in the Post-

Doctoral Research Arena - Dr Andrea Wheeler

15.30 Future ideas for the PRISM Group (Please bring

ideas with you)

There is no charge for this event, to book a place

please email Seek Pang on [log in to unmask] by 25

June 2010

IRIS webpages at: www.glos.ac.uk/iris

Postgraduate Researchers Interested in Sustainability Matters – PRISM

Join the PRISM Group at www.JISCMAIL.ac.uk

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