Affective engagement A person-centred conceptual approach that focuses on the role of emotions and affection for understanding rational thoughts, preferences and choices.
Co-construction A collaborative approach to research that supports multiple actors to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on shaping research agendas and processes.
Decolonisation In its political form refers to the breaking of political ties with former colonial powers. When decolonisation is used in reference to knowledge, it refers to the process of breaking or going beyond the dominance of what is referred to as the Western canon or the dominance of Eurocentric ways of knowing, to recognise the vast multiplicity of epistemologies or knowledge systems.
Engaged excellence IDS' distinct approach to constructing and mobilising knowledge, and to teaching and mutual learning for development. Engaged excellence means that the high quality of our work (excellence) is dependent upon it linking to and involving those who are at the heart of the change we wish to see (engaged).
Participatory research An approach to research that involves the people who are the subjects of research as partners in the process of the enquiry.
Pathways The particular directions in which interacting social, technological and environmental systems and their contexts co-evolve over time.
Transformative knowledge network(s) This is the name given to the three international networks of researchers funded under the ISSC 'Transformations to Sustainability' programme
(www.worldsocialscience.org/ activities/transformations/ transformative-knowledge-networks-2), of which the 'Pathways' network described by Ely and Marin in this IDS Bulletin is one.
Transformative pathway(s) Pathways that entail deep, structural reconfigurations of social–technological–environmental systems, often through emergent and unruly (rather than 'top-down') processes.
AWID Association for Women's Rights in Development
CBPR community-based participatory research
CBR community-based research
CCRI Community Conservation Resilience Initiative
CE community engagement
CEIDRA Center for Studies and Research of Rural Law and Agrarian Reform [Paraguay]
CENIT Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación [Centre for Research on Transformation, Argentina]
CERI Centro de Estudios Rurales Interdisciplinarios [Center for Interdisciplinary Rural Studies, Asunción, Paraguay] CHSJ Centre for Health and Social Justice [India]
CONICET National Scientific and Technical Research Council [Argentina]
CSO civil society organisation
CUPP Community University Partnership Programme
CURP Community University Research Partnership
DFID Department for International Development
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
GFC Global Forest Coalition
GPS Gender, Power and Sexuality
HANCI Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index
HEI higher education institution
IAASTD International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science
and Technology for Development
IDS Institute of Development Studies
IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute
IK indigenous knowledge
INGO international non-governmental organisation
ISSC International Social Science Council
IUCN-NL IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands
LGBTI lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex
MEGEN Men for Gender Equality Now [Kenya]
MOHRAU Men of Hope Refugee Association Uganda
MoU memorandum of understanding
ODI Overseas Development Institute
ORAM Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration
PADEAP Pan African Development, Education and Advocacy
Programme
PANITA Partnership for Nutrition in Tanzania
PAR participatory action research
PG Parliamentary Group
PRA participatory rural appraisal
PRIA Participatory Research in Asia
PV participatory video
RLP Refugee Law Project
SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
SDG Sustainable Development Goal
SGBV sexual and gender-based violence
Sida Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
SPRU Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
SSHRC Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [Canada]
STEPS Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to
Sustainability
STS science and technology studies
SUN Scaling Up Nutrition
UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
UPOV International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
WFP World Food Programme
WSSR World Social Science Report