2023
2023/08/15 – TdLab member gets Ambassador for Sustainable Transition
Vanja Djinlev was selected to represent ETH (and TdLab of course) as an Ambassador for Sustainable Transition, part of the external pageAmbition PhD honors programme.
2023/08/08 – New book co-edited by TdLab member Bianca Vienni
Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Isabel Fletcher, and Catherine Lyall's Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research (Bristol University Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking reader designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in research.
Read more about the book and listen to the podcast external pagehere.
2023/07/28 – Mélanie Surchat's first paper is published
Surchat, M., Irakoze, M. Hansmann, R., Kantengwa, S., Konlambigue, M., Späth, L., Wilde, B., Six, J., & Krütli, P. (2023). Jobs in the circular bioeconomy under scrutiny: The challenging reality of compost production in Rwanda, World Development Sustainability, 3, 100094. doi: external page10.1016/j.wds.2023.100094
2023/05/25 – Celebration 10 years TdLab
The TdLab team celebrated the tenth anniversary of the TdLab together with various guests. Peter Edwards (live) and Sarah Springman (via zoom) spoke about the history and influences of the TdLab at D-USYS.
2023/05/11 – Special Edition of Gaia
We are happy to share with you the Special Edition of Gaia sharing insights from the ITD Conference 2021 held at the TdLab. The special section is now online on the external pageingenta connect website.
2023/05/10 – Final Report to SARS-CoV-2 Intervention Modeling
The final report (in German) of the accompanying study commissioned by the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) can be downloaded from the Fexternal pageOPH website.
2023/04/21 – Pius Krütli's opinion on rETHink
The rETHink project aimed, among other things, to promote the culture of discussion at ETH Zurich. But have the efforts been successful? Read the opinions of two ETH employees in the current special edition of the magazine Download"life" (PDF, 6.2 MB).
2023/04/18 – New PhD position in science and technology studies (STS)
We seek one PhD student (4 years) to join our team for the project «Investigating interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity: intersections of practices, culture(s) and policy in collaborative knowledge production» (INTERSECTIONS), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The Group Cultural Studies of Science (CSTS) in which this position is embedded, is a dynamic team studying and applying transdisciplinary methods and theories.
Deadline for applications is June 9, 2023.
Come join our great team!
Find the full job description on jobs.ethz.ch
2023/03/08 – TdLab Migration Web-doc Lauded by Policy Group Frame45
A PhD at TdLab will take you down all kinds of paths. Over the course of hers, Alice Hertzog worked with Pius Krütli to develop a trans-disciplinary collaboration with the Global Programme for Migration and Development at the Swiss Development Cooperation. When discussing outreach and results, one thing their partners said caught their attention: "we have all the evidence we need to make policy, what’s missing is the stories to change the narrative." With that in mind, Alice Hertzog produced the web-doc "migrant journeys" a external pagerecent review by the policy group Frame 45 described it as such: "Alice Hertzog and her team introduce faces and places to the offices and boardrooms of international development. Giving decision-makers and stakeholders something to latch onto, concretising otherwise rather abstract conversations. It may not be the same as bringing the target groups into the room, or indeed bringing the decision-makers to the places their decisions are felt, but it represents an intermediary step that helps humanise the issues." Not a typical PhD outcome, but one that from the perspective of the work we do at the TdLab, is definitely a win!
2023/03/08 – TdLab part of "Cosi" project
The TdLab will be part of the project "Co-Evolution and Coordinated Simulation of the Swiss Energy System and Swiss Society" external page(Cosi). Funded by "SWiss Energy research for the Energy Transition" external page(SWEET Programme), Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).
The project will be kicked-off in June. We are looking for a PhD in social sciences on the energy transition in Switzerland.
2023/02/28 – Video about female agripreneurs in Rwanda
TdLab's doctoral student Mélanie Surchat made a short video from her last data collection. The video is meant to be shared for the International Women’s Day on March 8, and the video showcases the female agripreneurs that Mélanie has interviewed in Rwanda as role-models for other women.
2023/01/04 – New Horizon Europe project at the TdLab
The CSTS Group is co-leading a work package in the Horizon Europe project "Delivering the next generation of Open Integrated Assessment Models for net-zero, sustainable development" (DIAMOND) during the period of 2022–2026.
DIAMOND takes on the topic of integrated assessment models (IAMs). The project aims to update, upgrade, and fully open six IAMs that are emblematic in scientific and policy processes and to improve their sectoral and technological detail. DIAMOND will also advance the modelling capacity to assess the feasibility and desirability of Paris-compliant mitigation pathways, their interplay with adaptation, circular economy, and other SDGs. Because despite significant development in the last decade, there is still remaining criticism of the design, use, and adequacy of IAMs to respond to emerging questions in the light of the Paris Agreement and net-zero ambition. This includes technical feasibility to represent broader societal transformations, cross-sectoral interactions, and other sustainability goals).
DIAMOND is a consortium made up of 19 partners from across Europe and the US. The CSTS Group is leading the implementation of a transdisciplinary approach to co-create a transformational impact of our modelling framework. In this process, the group works together with an array of disciplines and stakeholders. The CSTS group will establish communities of practice to open model enhancements by engaging with the wider IAM community, researchers, policymakers, representatives from emissions-intensive industries, as well as NGOs and citizen groups on energy and climate.
2023/01/01 – Michael Stauffacher serving as speaker of the TdLab in 2023
The co-directors of the TdLab have decided to select Michael Stauffacher as speaker for the year 2023 and Christian Pohl for 2024.